Yoga is a life philosophy, yoga is self-regulation,yoga is a way of life, yoga is the resolution of a diseasefree life and of a life of meditation. Yoga is the highest form of spiritual knowledge of self-remedy and selfphilosophy. Yoga transforms a man from a dwarf into a giant or transforms or raises oneself from all forms.
Yoga is not just an optional treatment method but, on the basis of outcomes, yoga is such a truth that removes diseases by the roots. In other words, it is not just a complete treatment method for physical ailments but also for mental diseases.
Yoga does not treat symptoms as in allopathy but it removes the root cause of the disease and makes us
healthy from within. To look at yoga simply as a form of exercise or as the property of one caste that aids in religious rites is an extremely narrow and ignorant viewpoint.
We should rise up from selfishness, obstinacy and ignorance and look at yoga as a science.According to an ancient belief, it is thought that yoga awakens the eight chakras and that pranayam removes the bad culture and sins that have gathered in us over many lives.
When I studied the scientific background of the eight chakras and when the ancient Sanskrit words were compared with modern medical science, I found that the Muladhar, Swadhistan, Manipur, Hriday, Anahat, Aagya and Shahashrar chakras are connected with Reproductive, Excretory, Digestive, Skeletal, Circulatory,
Respiratory, Nervous and endocrine systems respectively.
The work from the Muladhar to the Shahasrar is similar to the work from the reproductive to the endocrine system. With regular and skilful practise of yoga and pranayam makes these very eight chakras or systems fit and balanced.
The imbalance in any one system leads to a number of ailments or disorders. The language may be anything but the attitude of both science and spirituality is the same. Language is but a medium for expression of feelings. However, with the self-destruction that occurred over 400 years of slavery, we now consider Anabolism, Catabolism and Metabolism to be correct instead of Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
By not visualizing our tradition, culture and knowledge with self-pride, we are filled with a sense of weariness.
By reading the word ‘chakra’ we get moving in circles but when we read the word ‘system, we feel ourselves to be very systematic whereas the basis of ancient and modern knowledge is the same. Instead of the Ayurvedic theory of ‘Pragyaparadho hi Sarvarogana Mulkaranam’ (Charak), we feel ‘stress is the main cause of all diseases’ is more scientific. Now, let go of obstinacy and acknowledge the truth. For example, with the imbalance of endocrine system, stress and a number of complicated stress-related diseases such as heart diseases, blood pressure, depression, obesity, and diabetes etc. are developed. Similarly, with the imbalance of the skeletal system, over a 100 kinds of only arthritis can develop and a person falls victim to muscular atrophy. What I mean to say is that any imbalance of internal systems is illness and internal balance is freedom from illness.
By trying yoga directly and indirectly with thousands of people, I have found that regular practice of the main eight pranayams according to the correct procedure at a fixed time and with a determined mind leads to complete balance in our eight chakras or eight systems. As a result we get a healthy life from yoga. At the same time, the need for the chemical salts and hormones that we intake in the form of medicine gradually reduces because whatever chemical salts and hormones we have been taking from outside, we now start getting them from within.
Yoga is not a pigeon-hole like allopathy and is a complete cure. Apart from emergency and surgical treatment, in all aspects of the remaining treatments, yoga is a superior treatment skill. If Ayurveda is used along with yoga in the treatment of certain complicated diseases, then the effect is more profound. Apart from the disease-curing aspects of yoga, the spiritual aspect is very vast. Hence the principal aim of yoga is attainment of Samadhi or knowing the divine truth. With this, anything that comes in the way of attaining Samadhi with the help of yoga, such as diseases, gets ended automatically. In other words, the automatic destruction of the obstacles of yoga is the by-product of yoga. We should always remember that the main aim is attainment of Samadhi. This opinion on yoga is not merely a Buddhist exercise, any dream, propaganda or assurance and the use of yoga is very precise and real. I am assured that in the coming times, the world will shed its obstinacy and will adopt yoga as its own and there will develop a peaceful, healthy, sensitive and prosperous world and nation. Science and spirituality, material science and spiritual science will grow completely at the same rate. Religion of the soul and of the nation will arise from yoga. The world will move forward on the path of self-good and global good. People will shed the identities of caste, community, religion, region, language, communalism, etc and take up the identity of the country and of humanity. And India will emerge as the most superior country in all cultural, spiritual, economic and social aspects. Feelings of hatred, fear, desire, discontent, false intellect, anger, extravagance, etc arises from lack of peace. With the help of pranayam and meditation, when people’s minds become peaceful, then the fear, illusion, hatred, crime, and corruption prevalent in the society, nation and the world will also be removed and there will be regulated rise of devotion and fall of vices. The only solution to such material deterioration is exactly this material outlook. The end of the age of hatred, crime and sexual madness is only possible through the global establishment of yoga, otherwise no one can prevent the great destruction.
