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PSYCHODYNAMICS IN YOGA
Prof. L.I. Bhushan
This is an age of renaissance for the ancient science of yoga. Yesterday you heard the talk of Swami Poonyanandaji about the discussion on yoga in the Vedas, and over 2000 years ago Maharishi Patanjali made useful the principles of ancient yogic literature in Sanskrit verses in his famous book the Yoga Sutras. Since then, many further studies have been conducted and we notice more progress, the dawn of a yogic renaissance.
There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the effectiveness and applicability of yoga, and secondly, the scientific base that yoga has. As far as effectiveness is concerned, most of the people attending this conference bear testimony to the fact that their presence and participation are on account of the benefits that they have derived or observed from the yogic practices. Today the effectiveness of yoga is well known and well accepted for physical diseases as well as mental problems. Yoga has provided a simple and complete cure for many problems (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, asthma etc.) earlier considered to be incurable or chronic.
Modern medicine accepts that the cause of 90% of diseases is psychosomatic. The cause lies in the mind and the symptoms appear in the body. Most of the diseases are due to mental stress. Yoga teaches us how to live a peaceful life amidst tribulations and many yogic practices enable us to do this.
People with physical diseases, especially those of a chronic nature, and with disturbed mental tranquility, come to yoga for relief. Yoga emphasized centuries ago, science accepts today, that the psychosomatic problems are results of imbalance in the individual. Yogic practices restore lost balance in the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of human personality and thus provide the desired relief from many psychosomatic problems. This is why the suffering people all over the world who deviated from spiritual values are not only accepting yoga as a powerful curative medium, but are moving towards spirituality which is the heritage of India.
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