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INTEGRATION OF MIND
AND ENERGY
Dr. Swami Bhikshananda Saraswati
Life is meant for enjoyment. No one can deny it. No one takes advice on how to enjoy life, it comes naturally to everyone. By enjoying life and enjoying life, you begin to get some aches and pains. You begin to feel unhappy. You begin to feel dissipated within.
The remedy formula is to introduce the practice of yoga with a little philosophy into your life. Gradually add more practice, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, three to four days a week. In this way you will find that you are able to enjoy life with fewer aches and pains and that you are slowly stabilizing and enriching your enjoyment. In fact, you will have more enjoyment because you will be more sensitive and a little more in harmony with yourself. This is the main secret of life which I would like to share with everyone. So, the body is a means to enjoy life, to give one pleasure, and to earn money. At the same time the body is also a means for bringing about a direct change in your pranic body. In my experience, yoga is a science of biological engineering because it can bring about changes in your personality and can even change your genes. This is the other use of the body.
The tools of yoga are not directly relevant to the physical body. They are more related to your pranic body, your energy body, to your chakras, to your nadis. For example, every breath is related to some movement of energy. However, no one, or very few of us, can feel the happenings in our pranic body and thus science has not accepted this claim of yoga. The average individual believes more in external enjoyment and the philosophy of money rather than in the science of feeling, of experiencing and of knowing the great power, the great subtle body, the great prana and its latent potential.
We have looked at the main principles of yoga and we have also discussed love, prem. Now I ask myself, "Did Mirabai do any asanas or pranayama or neti? Did Bhagwan
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