“Yoga chitta vritti nirodh” says Patanjali, the fountainhead of yoga, which means blocking the activities of the senses. Blocking the activities of the mind/senses definitely cannot be connoted as suppression of desires for one of the five yamas (principles) of ashtanga yoga is ahimsa/non-violence, which means prohibition of an action perforce. Suppression, therefore, is considered an act of violence. A normal human being has five basic senses, the satisfaction of which is a must. When a normal human being holds the hand of a Guru and is in yoga then s/he crosses the sansar sagar and gains complete control and mastery over the five senses. The sense of touch (sexual sense) is one of these senses.
Yoga is not suppression of these senses and abnormal behaviour just because you want to project yourself as a super being. Yoga is a mastery over the senses where if you choose to have sex then you will have, the difference being that the desire does not control you but you control the desire and you may indulge or may want to indulge for generating a specific kind of heat which is used to activate the higher senses (the orgasm has to be held back in this case and a yogi would maintain the sexual heat for long periods of time, like for two hours to 48 hours). Complete control and mastery is what is the subject of yoga.
Yoga is not suppression of these senses and abnormal behaviour just because you want to project yourself as a super being. Yoga is a mastery over the senses where if you choose to have sex then you will have, the difference being that the desire does not control you but you control the desire and you may indulge or may want to indulge for generating a specific kind of heat which is used to activate the higher senses (the orgasm has to be held back in this case and a yogi would maintain the sexual heat for long periods of time, like for two hours to 48 hours). Complete control and mastery is what is the subject of yoga.
It's about time to get our basics right...Forcing one self to do or not do things does not help, because suppression of desires will be of no help infact it will come back full throttle may be at a time when not expected at all....the key is to connect to the divine energy "Guru" as its only HIM who can unveil the path of complete control and mastery!
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ReplyDeleteAll ordinary human beings have desires but when these Desires overpower us then the only solution is to keep holding Guru's hand tightly & then He takes us beyond in the best possible way.
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