This whole week I was reading the chapter on Sankhya Yoga in Bhagavad Gita. Interestingly, I discovered so many clicks from Lord Krishna, the Purnavatar (complete incarnation) when he started to address Arjuna’s fear in waging a war and the patterns he was stuck in.
Sankhya Yoga is the philosophy of reality – the ultimate existential reality from Vedic tradition which gives us the right cognitions about who we are and an understanding that there is no death in reality! What exists as reality is perceived by you without the interference, perversions created by your powerless patterns. I feel this true knowledge should be given as the powerful cognitions about self in all schools as it will fundamentally change the way the next generation make important decisions in their lives, the way it had shifted my entire understanding and my life!
Here are some of the key truths from Sankhya Yoga:
Are you aware that how you perceive your body-mind affects your health?
What is the principle of Vedic holistic systems?
This week I was helping a few devotees with certain health issues and I couldn’t help but noticed many people do not understand the relationship between their beliefs and body. When I was studying the notes of the discourse on Yoga Sutras of Patanjali given by my Guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji), I realised many of people carry the wrong ideas and beliefs from society which shape the way we perceive and relate with our body- mind and how we manifest diseases unconsciously.
Today is the third year we are celebrating globally the International Day of Yoga after its first inauguration on 21st June 2016. As a living Yogi, I would like to share the three truths about yoga which was shared by the Avatar of Sadashiva (Super Consciousness), Paramahamsa Nithyananda (fondly known as Swamiji) where he addressed the world in a mind-blowing discourse, sharing sacred secrets on the true origins of Yoga.
Here is what you have never been told but need to know about Yoga: