Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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our lives yogic, establish ourselves in the yogic state and spend our lives in the yogic style, then only will the world be benefited.
Through his renunciation and austerities, our beloved, His Holiness Paramahamsa Satyananda, has given his great gift of yoga to the mankind of today's world. You must take up this idea and make your life yogic. Paramahamsa Satyananda says, "Let your life be a yogic life." Similarly, Lord Krishna said, Yogastha kuru karmaani. Do your duty in the field of your work, and let the final state be the state of yogic consciousness. Between you and Allah, between you and God, between you and Ahura Mazda, between you and Jehovah, let there be an unbroken relation. Whichever is the power, by whatever name you call it - Tao, Siddha or the state of an adept, Nirvana, Brahma, God, Parabrahma - let there be an unbroken relation. There is one imponderable, cosmic, all full, all perfect principle. It was existing when nothing else existed. When no creation had been made, there was neither religion nor church nor mosque nor. synagogue. No scriptures, no place of personal administration, no prophet existed. Man himself was not yet created at that time. What was his name? To whom did he belong? There has been this sole power always, even before creation took place. Wherever you may be, in whichever field of duty, work in co-operation with this sole power.
So, Lord Krishna said, Yogastha kuru karmaani sangam tyaktwaa dhananjaya. Immediately reject, the association of whatever stands in the way of your continuously experiencing an unbroken relationship with the God within. Immediately reject the association of anything that comes between you and God, between you and the supreme reality. If you are thus established in yoga, nothing can touch you. In the midst of all changes, you will have supreme peace. This means that yoga will provide you with this situation.
Diten dukhen guruna api na vichaalayati. Sorrow can make the greatest attacks, but you won't be afflicted even a bit. You shall be calm. This is why it is said that this culture of yoga is the culture of tomorrow. Prophetic were these words of Paramahamsa Satyananda, and he has also said, "I see clearly that yoga will become a mighty force in the future and will change the course of world events." These are all prophetic visions and shall be proved true. One who leads a yogic way of
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