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IDEAL YOGA
The objective of yoga is happiness, peace, tranquility and harmony of one and all. Ideal yoga is that which ensures sustainable and lasting happiness and there is no individual happiness in isolation. One cannot be happy if others in family, group, society and even at national and global levels are suffering. Happiness of mankind is also depended and interlinked with that of other living beings big and small and also with myriad constituents of nature the air forms, water forms, soils, minerals etc. as the social environment of human beings and the natural physical environment are interdependent. The overall harmony depends on interactions, interrelations of all constituents of nature which are inherently symbiotic i.e. mutually beneficial. The disturbances in harmony and consequential problem sorrows, miseries, conflicts, pollution, diseases etc. are result of anthropocentric attitude of human beings that mankind is supers and supreme and all others are subservient for its unrestricted and unlimited use and pleasures. This has derailed the balance in nature. Ideal yoga is that which will put unbalanced, derailed process back on right track of mutualism. Symbiotic interactions constitute ideal yoga so that actions and interactions of individuals or groups do not harm any other constituent of nature both animate and inanimate.
The scenario, evolving and manifesting as of now is degrading continuously and more and more rapidly from bad to worse. All efforts and endeavours individual, social, political, economic, religious, spiritual and also so called yogic (pseudo-yoga) are not succeeding. This is because the gap or chasm between nature and humans is not being bridged and is rather widening. The very solutions adopted for problems are generating new problems and so on creating a vicious circle. Most of the technologies particularly in industries induct pollution and the technologies to ameliorate pollution are themselves polluting because their instruments are also manufactured by respective industries and also require material, thus putting more burden on natural resources. Newer and newer technologies bring with them newer problems and the vicious cycle is continuing. Atomic energy expansion is an exemplary case to illustrate this point. Another glaring example is current worldwide economic melt down which is result of unrestricted consumerism and the solution being adopted is to prop and augment the same consumerism which caused the malaise. It is the height of human folly. The same is happening in case of other problems. The solution is not in accentuating and accelerating the very cause but in decelerating and reversing the trend. It is unfortunate that same economic consumerist policies
