Thanks to the internet it is easy now to mislead people – not by the thousands but by the millions !
A lot of different yoga and meditations have cropped up. Some are given Buddhist label and others yoga or paranjali etc
What a joke ! I occasionally get to read about it as a forced upon ad or a news reporter trying to promote
Bikram yoga or mindfulness and lately hiridaya yoga – such words are thrown in with Sanskrit based meaning given – this most certainly wows the novice Like everything during the honeymoon period, like every wedding or relation or job it seems wonderful and then it drifts away. Can we please realize this?
So is meditation or yoga or spirituality wrong ? NO It is accurate. It is perfect. But few can really find the real guru and then hold on to it and follow it unerringly
Here are a few rules or guidelines to remember
- Meditation or yoga is about reaching atma or pure consciousness
- It has nothing to do with the mind or body or heart or emotions
- Ego or bodily exercises or breathing or logic CANNOT CALM THE MIND OR EMOTIONS
- If it works it is transient, lasting only for a few hours, gets uprooted at the next life calamity or situation and will not pass on from one birth to other
- A guru is a must
Here I will stop. This is about going within and not roaming in the imaginations of the mind or outside in the gross physical world
Bhavin