Happy Yoga Day 21 June 2017

Happy Yoga Day 21 June 2017

Yoga-sthah Kuru Karmani

Sangam tyaktva dhananjaya

Siddy-asiddyoh samo bhutva

Samatvam yoga ucyate (Text 48, Ch2, Contents of Gita Summarized)

                                  

Meaning: Perform your duty equipoised,  O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure, such equanimity is called yoga.

(Bhavavad Gita)

Yoga:

-Yoga

-is merger

-is unification of Atman with Brahman

-is one who has integarated himself with the Totality

-is the one who has achieved the highest  purpose of life

-is the one who is merged with the Lord. He is óne with the Lord

-is one who has reached the highest state of consciousness, the real Self

-knows everything ‘As it is’-that everything is only an extension of himself as  Brahman

-is the one who has reached the Summit (the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development)

(Ashtavakra Gita)