WHAT IS YOGA?

Yoga is a combination of art and science which allows the complete development of human personality, and has been developed and practised in India for more than 5000 years. Yoga means to unite with your divine nature.

The majority of us only achieve partial success in life. We reach our material goals but are often lacking in the areas of family, health and spirituality. By the time we realise that our lives lhave no purpose or are not developing as we would wish, we have reached a point of no return and do not know how to remedy the situation.

In order to have a complete and prosperous life we need to achieve a balance between the inner life, which is permanent, and the outer life, which is material and only temporary. We have ceased to be in contact with our basic nature. We lack purpose in life and tend to think that the source of our latest happiness will be everlasting, but it never is. Why? Because everlasting happiness can only copme from inside us and in order to reach it we must be able to access that inner world. Through yoga and meditation we can learn how to achieve that everlating happiness

Life is an ongoing quest for truth and the greatest aim is to be able to move from the outer reality to the inner reality where we may find the perfect peace latent in every human being. The inner reality is the source of everlasting joy.

In this world the day to day experiences of many people are based on misery, pain and fear. There is also happiness, but the temporary nature of ordinary happiness is a fact that few of us can have failed to observe.

The tragedy of human inderstanding is that we always expect our latest source of happiness to be the definite one. But it never is, because happiness is not the product of favorable circumstances or the fulfillment of desires. Nor does it have anything to do with the development of our intelligence.

Everlasting happiness is the product of a pure state of conciousness which can only be reached through yoga and meditation.

Our repeated experiences of how aspiration becomes disappointment, makes it difuclt for us to believe in a concept such as everlasting happiness. The absence of this happiness is a common ocurrence. What stops us from achieving everlasting happiness?

Human beings are not imperfect, but they are incomplete. The human body posesses all the tools required to access the ultimate reality of life, but these tools are not ripe or connected for use. Generally, body experiences are nothing but the gross expression of the ultimate reality and fail to pick up on the more subtle aspects of it’s essential nature. We know that our senses have limitations and the subtle fields of nature are beyond our present capactity to feel or experience.

Lotus yoga practice can sharpen the senses and enable us to perceive total reality.

Science recognises that matter is not the totality of existence. Yogic practitioners in ancient India were able to see the whole cosmos as the interaction of matter and energy and perfected the art of transmuting matter.

This single basic energy, Primordial energy, is manifested as matter and un-manifested as thought, intelligence and soul. For an ordinary human being the state of the body, mind & ego are in a continuous state of flux and this is considered to be the ultimate reality. But the root of these ever changing principles of life is soul-energy.

Yoga is the art and science of harnessing the soul energy.

The soul transcends all fields of nature, both subjective & objective; it is the field of the absolute. It is the pure state of being, the transcendental reality. The nature of it is everlasting happiness of the highest order. Our whole cosmos is nothing but different degrees of manifestation of a single unchanging energy principle.