This is NOT Yoga || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Everybody who wants to have his share of the limelight coming in front of the camera and

00:09displaying a few physical poses and passing that off as yoga, that is not at all yoga.

00:18That is a stretching exercise or that could be strength exercise without using external

00:28weights.

00:29You go to the gym, you use iron weights or you could do the same exercises using body

00:38weight.

00:41Stretching and strength building, this is not at all yoga.

00:45I am not denying the importance of this.

00:49Everybody should have a flexible body.

00:50Stretching is great.

00:53We all must have powerful muscles.

00:55So having a well-tuned and strong body is again great.

01:01But please, that is not yoga.

01:03That is not yoga.

01:04Let's not corrupt the very concept itself.

01:10And if you will go closely into the psychological aspects of it, the ego has a vested interest

01:21in limiting yoga, in actually caging yoga within the concept of physicality.

01:30Because if yoga is not arrested within the bodily walls of physicality, then yoga will

01:40attack the ego itself and the ego does not want that.

01:45So the ego has played a clever dirty trick.

01:48It has said yoga is wonderful, yoga is great and yoga is physical.

01:54Now the moment you liberate yoga from these artificial and unwise physical constraints,

02:02yoga becomes such a powerful force of life transformation.

02:08Then you have to read, then you have to understand, then you have to go into what Patanjali and

02:14Sri Krishna actually meant.

02:18Now that is something we do not want to go into.

02:22But we are very happy with having a slim body because it helps in doing whatever we want

02:29to do.

02:30And that's the evil in it, whatever we want to do.

02:34Why do you want to do whatever?

02:36Why don't you do that which is right?

02:38And yoga is about that itself, doing what is right, not doing whatever.

02:43You have ample gurus who will come over and say, oh you know, you do this and then you

02:49can do whatever you want to do.

02:52Now the moment you hear this kind of phraseology that yoga will help you do better whatever

03:00you want to do, I suppose one must run away.

03:03Because that's exactly antithetical to yoga.

03:08Yoga is not about doing whatever you want to do.

03:13It's ego that says that.

03:16Not the dedicated, devoted, wise mind, no, that does not come from there.

03:28It's amazing, the ways of the inner mischief maker, we can take the greatest gift given

03:40to us and turn it into something that we want to use almost as an intoxicant, you know,

03:52like youngsters who take cough syrups to get inebriated.

04:02There is no medicine that cannot be used as a narcotic drug.

04:09And that's what we are doing to yoga as well.

04:12It's a medicine.

04:13Yes, please.

04:14You know, you are saying that we have to do the right thing for the right reason in the

04:19right manner, absolutely right intent and again you are talking of doing the right karma

04:26in every aspect, having the right thoughts, having the right action, having balance in

04:32pursuit of even economic benefits in worldly goals, using the right means to achieve the

04:39right ends, you know, so means are equally important.

04:43You are right, we are so identified by our name, our body, where we come from, we don't

04:52identify as souls, we don't identify as, you know, souls in a body, so to say.

05:01So I understand and let me ask you another question, today on the World Yoga Day, is

05:08there a mantra you already said, do the right thing for the right reason, you already said,

05:15you know, don't abuse your body, don't abuse your mind and mind comes from right practice,

05:23from doing the right things, you know, balance in life, doing whatever your dharma is, you

05:28know, whatever you do, you know, there is a right thing to do in that, doing that and

05:34when your mind, they say when your mind and your actions are in sync, you know, what you

05:41say, what you do, what you believe, if all three are in sync, then you have a healthy

05:46mind, so to say, you have a healthy living, you have a harmonious living, whatever word

05:51you want, you are living to your higher purpose, I mean, what is this fixation with perfection

05:58today, I am a Hindu, I only believe the perfect person is Lord Shiva, you know, only Lord

06:08Shiva is perfection incarnated, right, so what, how do we live our life, you know, while

06:15it is a conversation on yoga, you brought in a larger connotation, doing yoga in what

06:24context, doing yoga for what purpose, you know, hence give us some thumb rules for living

06:30your life.

06:31You see, that exactly is the point, if you take Shiva as perfection, then there has to

06:41be a certain love for perfection and life has to be a relentless, unending pursuit of

06:49that perfection, that which might be unattainable and the scriptures clearly say so, that it

06:57is something that you will never really get to hold or come to touch or really meet in

07:14the normal sense of the word, but still, if you just remain devoted to it and pursue it,

07:25life will become worth living, not the attainment, even the pursuit, even the pursuit is sufficient

07:36and that pursuit is something that would anyway happen if your respect for that which you

07:44are calling as perfection or Shiva is genuine, what kind of person am I if I venerate Krishna

07:54and have nothing to do with what he is teaching, so, and that is not really a policy or an

08:06option or a smart trick to play to oneself, you see, the mind is fed up of its follies,

08:20the mind is a constant thirst, the mind is always stuck, always challenged, always bemused,

08:33seeks more, is not satisfied with what it has and does not even know what it really

08:37seeks, so, going towards that which you are calling as perfection, somebody could call

08:45it contentment, somebody could call it Shiva or Krishna, is anyway the only option that

08:51you have because without that pursuit, you will anyway never feel any kind of repose

08:59or contentment or rest, one would constantly be agitated, one would constantly be dissatisfied

09:08with life and that is not how we want to spend our life, this is not just theory or

09:16ideology, this is the fact of who we are, we are born discontented and because there

09:26is just so much agitation within and darkness within, therefore, there is no option but

09:34to spend life in pursuit of light, that same light that you could call as perfection or

09:41Atma or Brahm or Truth or Shiva or Krishna or Ram, the name is your choice, but that

09:51is an inevitability with anybody who has some sense and self-love, why do you want to destroy

10:00your ears, that's the question we must ask, I mean, one is already not alright and

10:06one is acting in ways that would only further the inner sense of injury and disquiet, why

10:13does one want to do that, there can be no sensible, plausible reason, so, spirituality

10:23therefore is not something that one gets into, spirituality has to be the only way of life

10:30if one is not adamant on self-destruction. Absolutely.

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