Who does not know the word "yoga"? Although nearly everybody is familiar with this word, there is a lot of vagueness and confusion about it's real meaning...
Moreover there seem to exist innumerable yoga-processes, and each day quite a few seem to get added...
... Karma-yoga, Bhakti-yoga, Jnana-yoga, Ashtanga-yoga, Tantra-yoga, Hatha-yoga, Siddha-yoga, Kundalini-yoga, Raja-yoga, Kriya-yoga, Kripalu-yoga, Rodney-Yee-yoga, Sahaja-yoga, Shivananda-yoga, Bikrams Yoga, Free Yoga, Power Yoga, and on and on...
Most people think that yoga is a certain set of physical exercises, breathing exercises or meditation exercises to keep the body and mind fit, healthy, slim, youthful und efficient. But that's a misunderstanding, because yoga is much, much more...
The Real Aim of Yoga
In order to understand the real aim and purpose of yoga, we at first have to clearly understand what is the most desirable and most dear object of human beings, because yoga is the process to get it...
Is it a big, luxurious house? An expensive car? Health, wealth or beauty?
No, not really...
Everyone agrees. The most valuable and most wanted thing we are hankering after throughout our whole life, second after second, hour after hour, day after day, month after month and year after year, with all our energies, is called...
...HAPPINESS.
Real, substantial, deep and tangible HAPPINESS...
YOGA is the only process to attain this happiness...
Our whole life, whether as a factory worker, professor oder racing driver, circles around this central question:
"How can I be happy?"
Everywhere we are promised happiness. Advertisments display people, who are happy because of smoking a certain brand of cigarettes, drink a certain beverage or drive a certain car... A numerous crowd of modern saviours and gurus is anxious to collect their lambs, promising them happiness if they adhere to their messages.
It is a fact: Everyone of us is looking for happiness. But we have completely forgotten where it can be really found. We are running after a fata morgana in the desert, because we are lured by the hope to find water there. We are horribly thirsty. But the faster we run towards the illusion, the further it moves back...
Why are we so eager to find happiness?
Usually we are looking for something, which we have lost. We are searching for happiness everywhere and anywhere, because we have indeed lost it. That is also the proof, that happiness must exist somewhere. In our innermost essence we are eternally happy and blissfull entities. But because we have abandoned the art and scince of yoga, we are now looking for joy and bliss at the wrong places...
YOGA is the authorized science to search for bliss and happiness there, where it can truly be found...
Let´s imagine a fish, who has been taken out from his natural environment, the water...
He is sitting on the veranda of a nice bungalow, a drink in his fin; a beautiful fish lady beside him; nice, selected dishes on golden plates; an expensive cigar in his fishmouth... Servants and maids are at his disposal, prepared to fulfill all his desires...
But we all know that the fish will be suffering terribly despite all gorgeous arrangements. Something is wrong, basically and essentially. There is something missing. Our fish may try hard to enjoy and to ignore this nagging sensation. For some time he might even be successful in this attempt...
But he will be defeated in the long run. His real and genuine demand for water will emerge again and again. All diversion will be futile. His genuine need longs for genuine fulfillment...
And what does all of this have to do with yoga?
YOGA is the authorized process to throw the fish back into the water. Yoga is the ancient, original and timeless science to dive deeply into an ocean of unlimited bliss...
Click on the following links to find out all about the different aspects of yoga and their significance for these days...
- The Difficult Process of Ashtanga-yoga...
The ashtanga-yoga system is especially meant for human beings thinking to be the material body or mind, without accurate information about their actual spiritual identity...
- Yoga Will Make our Mind our Biggest Asset...
Many Authorities Ascertain: The first creation of our future happens within our mind. Yoga is the science to utilize the minds vast potential for profound happiness and success...
- More About Mantra Yoga...
For practicing mantra yoga you don't need any church, mosque or temple. Wherever you are and whatever you do: Just become perfect by following this simple process...
- Lift Your Head Out of the Pit - by Yoga!
Most of us are looking for the water of happiness in the desert. Take it for granted: You'll find none. Yoga will show you an unlimited source of pure, refreshing water within yourself...
- Is Yoga a Waste of Time?
At the time of death everyone will loose everything: family, house, car and bank balance. But your progress in yoga is rooted in reality and therefore never lost...
- In Yoga Sincerity Counts!
Sincerity is yours! No one can take it from you, but no one can give it to you either. Yoga means to get sincere. It's your choice...
- The Goal of Yoga: Pure Love...
Work hard and die? No! If by yoga the waves of the mind calm down, you will be able to see the secret and eternal essence of activity...
- You Can Attain Freedom by Yoga!
If you are seriously looking for full satisfaction, don't get bluffed. Yoga will empower you to become an independent servant of love...
- Yoga or The Art of Loving Relationships!
Material relationships are actually based on exploitation only and therefore leave us frustrated. By real yoga we will discover our dormant power to serve in love, the source of all happiness...
