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AIM OF YOGA Paramahamsa Niranjanananda
On the eve of self surrender a person should have only one desire in his consciousness and in his thought process, and that is, "Let Thy will be done. Let me move the way you want me to move. Let me live the way you want me to live." Keeping these feelings in the heart, if one surrenders then great bliss is derived. During this convention we all must take this solemn oath because this is what yoga strives for. This is the aim of yoga.
How long are you going to consider yourself to be the doer? How long are you going to consider results to be in your control? It has been mentioned in vedic philosophies, Lord Krishna has repeatedly said it in the Gita, and time and again seers have declared, that you are to do the work but to give up the desire for the fruits of action. Where there is a giving up of expectation of the fruits of action, where there is a sacrifice of the results of action, there awakens a feeling of surrender, and this sentiment of surrender is called yoga.
We are trying to personify surrender through the Paramahamsa Satyananda Tyag Golden Jubilee Convention where we can forget our physical, material and internal, mental problems and obstacles and surrender ourselves to the wish of God. The day we feel qualified to do so we shall find our life has become full of happiness.
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