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Thirdly, how can yoga be used to create a healthy social structure? Yoga has not been properly and widely used for such a purpose. But we can look forward to its application for a desired social change, a revolution which is very much needed today. The whole of society is breaking up and going topsy-turvy, so much so that only disintegration is visible everywhere. I do not speak specifically of Bihar: or of India. This phenomenon is present all over the world. A ripple of violence has been unleashed. What is the solution?
Unbalanced, broken personalities are incapable of checking this disintegration of society. If we desire a peaceful, prosperous and happy society, we need to instigate a transformation in the human personality. We need to develop a proper attitude to life, to obtain some integration, some balance that we have lost. How can this balance be brought about? How can our negative thinking and attitudes be made positive? There are many simple and scientific techniques in yoga which work at a very subtle level. This I can say today on the basis of my own experience and applications
The greatest benefit of yoga is that when its techniques are practised one cannot even figure out how the personality and attitudes are being affected. Changes are brought into effect through the autonomic nervous system through the secretions of endocrine glands, through changes in blood chemistry and brainwaves and many other changes that take place within the body whether we will them or not. As we start the practices, changes start taking place, our thought patterns change, attitudes change and a positive outlook develops. This is the gift of yoga. The transformations within our personality through the sequential reformation manifest in improved interpersonal. behavior and social order.
Thus, when we change our thoughts, subsequent changes can be noticed in society. There can be no better way to transform society. If we wish to transform society we shall need to transform ourselves first. If we bring the desired change in our personality we shall be able to change society. We will be able to create the goodness that we desire all around us. If we enter into lengthy debate on the positive and negative things within our society nothing can happen, no concrete results can be achieved. An unbalanced personality can do nothing constructive for or within society. If we wish to bring about a transformation, we shall have to start from ourselves.
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