Yoga of Krishna

 

An action without desiring result, whatever you do, you will have no single feeling of un-success, neither feeling of revenge nor you have any expectations from the work or from yourself. This will help you to remain calm, the action which performed with the desire of result leads you in pressure and therefore before performing the act you have pre-deposit that the result will be according to the act, and fear of failing to get the desired result, that leads you to frustration. The substance like desire, frustration, expectations, sorrow, and pity all affects the body and the blood pressure changes with such feelings that affect not only our psychology but also our body.

See a businessman in metro city, he invest money in business expecting the result that the money will multiply. He creates hope and expectation with this action or karma of investment and these hopes and expectations increased his blood pressure as he remains thinking about the result every time. And if suppose the investment failed to get more money than it result in sorrow and grief, it also affect the blood pressure and create pressure on his heart and also on his mind and he start comparing with his competitor and feeling of jealousness emerged, hatred will come out and such feelings also increase blood pressure and create pressure on mind. And when he came to know that some person is responsible for his failure in investment then the feeling of enemy grips him that also affects the blood pressure of the body and pressure on heart and on mind.

Remember blood pressure and pressure on mind give birth to sleeplessness, anxiety and also to fear and to panic attacks. Big private hospitals are coming in cities just because for these groups of people who need treatment of heart and blood pressure.

And suppose that businessman invest his money without any desire, simply taking it as he is doing his karma of business with all calculation, he will not wait for the result and will say, ‘this is my work and I am performing it’ and if the investment result in bad business, he will feel that something wrong calculation happened, he will not blame anyone or feel jealous of other who succeed.

The only solution to overcome the damage is to try another time taking lesson from the mistake that were made previously. See, these days, not only in cities but also in villages and in towns, people are suffering from blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack and sleeplessness. People doubt their own brothers and fathers and also their wives, wives doubting husbands and children and the result is there is no peace in life, for human, whole day went into calculation of profit and loss and what others think about them.

Every time, every minute we all run after our desires to fulfill anyhow. Even in sleeps, our calculation move from one equation to another, we want to reach the point to fulfill our desire. The real theme of Nishkama Karma is living a life in peace, this is true meditation and this is true way of life.

 I sent my son to school and then to college with the desire that one day he will earn good money and will take care of me and my wife and when my son grew up he left us alone and went to other city to live his own life, I had expectations which led to sorrow and grief and that lead to blood pressure and irritation, We also desired that our daughter will marry according to us but she managed her own marriage with her friend of another caste, My wife got heart attack and since then she is under treatment. We worked hard for our whole life but even at this stage we are not satisfied. Desires and hopes are the reason of sorrow and frustration.

A doctor operating the patient with the desire that he will earn money and also earn fame or even he think that he get blessing to treat the patient, these thoughts not help him to concentrate on his work because most of his consciousness is absorbed by the hope which emerged from his heart and the result and his karma will not able to make remarkable efficiency.

Similarly, in common day to day life our decisions and actions are affected by the pre thoughts, our desire, our hopes and our expectations therefore we act accordingly because we wanted to act according to the result. We should act without desire, we act just we wanted to act, act according to the dharma, which is our duty, a duty embodied by our position in family, in society, in profession, we only have to act without attaching our self with the result.

The real reason of suffering is our anger, jealousy, expectations, desire, frustration, greed, hunger and such things that made our lives miserable and therefore Lord Krishna said act without desire, just do your action and never think about the result.

Science has proved the teaching of Shrimada Bhagawat Geeta that manifestation in our heart brings changes in our body and they displayed a role like diseases, the message of greed, hunger, anger and frustration made our body tense and therefore the pressure affects our body leads to blood pressure and introduces different illnesses.

Life is not simply living but living with the right knowledge. It is like we travel and travel whole life but didn’t know where we wanted to go. Knowledge made us aware that where and why we are going and where we will reach

Yes, everyone these days are talking about yoga, there are babas on televisions showing different sit-ups and how to inhale and exhale the breath nowadays, even politicians are talking about yoga and its importance, and they are practicing it to overcome the stress and tension.

Yoga came from the word ‘yog’ which means adding, adding the soul and body together in one knot, and bringing symphony in life. It can also help us to keep fit both, mentally and physically, it is good to practice such exercises but this is not Yoga. When Samkhya, who propounded the philosophy of dualism, two separate entities and two separate essence material and consciousness then how it is possible to add two different elements together with different nature. Therefore Yoga is not adding two things which are different in terms like I ask you to add numerical number one and alphabet B or to add fire and water.

The real yoga that Lord Krishna taught is based on the Patanjali Yoga sutra, the great seer of India who invented the science of mind and body. It is a practical philosophy, things which we all perform are aasanas (sit-ups and postures) which are one of the part of Ashtangayoga (eight fold yoga) Performing such activities are useful to step ahead towards the real yoga.  It prepares our body and soul to have symphony and make them one but this is not a complete yoga.

The real meaning of yoga is ‘chit vratinirodh’ which means cessation of modification in the heart or in the mind. We think many things and these thoughts make us happy and sad and angry and calm and frustrated and greedy. These thinking are like waves which come and go and swirl the silent water of the ocean and bring tides.

Sometimes, there tides are so high that it washes every part of the shore, the more the force of tide, the more destruction at shore. Similarly, the forceful thought or emotion disturbed the silent mind or heart and the forceful thought disturb and bring destruction to the body. These modification changes our state of mind and therefore the calmness which we have to maintain is lost and so we suffers. The yoga is a technique to control the modification of mind it is a method to make the consciousness steady like a flame of a candle that liters neither right or nor in left but steady, upward, undisturbed and concentrated. The yoga made our mind steady and cessation of any thought in the mind is yoga.

Yoga is the stage when we cease every type of modification in our heart and remain as calm as the water in the pot, without stirring any wave in the water, so calm that we can see our real self in it. If you stir the water then we cannot found our real image in the water, the image that emerge in that disturbed water is distracted one and show that how much we are disturb. But if the water is calm and still we find the real image in it, and so is our heart and mind, when they are calm and still we find the real image of our self and of this world. But if it is disturbed we calculate wrong about our self and also of this world. The calmness of the mind shows us that the soul is different from the material world, there are two identities existing together which is consciousness and material.