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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

What about those who cannot rise upto this seeking, frees us from all narrowness and
high and noble ideal? It is precisely for them smallness and makes our being enter a
that the spiritual teaching is relevant. See the vastness that we had never known before.
Gita for example. It teaches us the utter unreality We are liberated from all isms and prisms,
of death, it teaches us to remain equal in victory constructs of thoughts, ideas and opinions
and defeat, in gain and loss but then it also and one-sided viewpoints. It frees us from
teaches us to fight the great battle of life with all the narrowness in which belief systems
love and courage in our hearts, with all the skill are caught. This freedom, this vastness,
at our disposal. Even a little practice of this can automatically opens us to the Delight that
free the tremendous potential for right and constitutes the very fabric of creation. But
true action in man, making his own life and because the mind and ego and desire shut
the life of humanity so much better. Secondly, us into smallness, narrowness and pettiness,
by learning to live in tune with the truth of we lose contact with this Delight which is
our being we feel the natural Delight as all the origin, the secret support and the goal
do when they follow their innate impulsion. of creation. This Delight pervades all things
It is only when we deviate from our inner but in the small consciousness it changes
truth and follow an alien way, alien to us into pleasure, pain and indifference. But
while it may be perfectly natural to another, since there is within us always this constant
that we feel stifled and depressed. This is so pull towards the Delight, which runs as
because one of the intrinsic causes of chronic a sap through the core of all things, we
unhappiness is that we are no longer leading are never satisfied with anything. All our
the life intended for us. This has been one of pleasures and joys are temporary illusions
the great civilisational losses that with the rise which are so many steps to keep us tied to
of competitive consumerism, individuals have the great journey of life. The breaking of
become like consumer products with a price- each illusion gives us pain, we are pushed
tag attached to them, efficient as a machine, out of our comfort-zones and experience
serviceable and perfect and artificial and robotic pain. Yet this pain is our means to step out
and false. of an illusory reality and discover the true
truth of our being. This discovery brings
All this falsehood yoga tends to remove like a us natural Delight.
washing-powder removes the stains from a In conclusion
cloth and lets its true colour shine through.
There is another reason why yoga helps Well, these are some of the ways that yoga can
us keep away all stress and depression. make life not only beautiful but also strong.
First of all, it opens the doors of knowledge, But this is only the minimum. The reach of
true knowledge for us so that we become yoga goes much further than the emergence
aware of the truth of our own self and the of latent possibilities and capacities of
truth of the world around us. This truth knowledge and will, to the fullness of life
and knowledge are liberating. Truth frees leading to wholeness and integration with
us from the small and narrow moulds the creation and the Creator Himself. Are
into which we cabin our life and suffer. these things of less value than amassing
True Knowledge, born out of spiritual and possessing and hoarding and lusting

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