Modern science tries to prove that everything that you know as life, everything that you know as existence, everything that you know as cosmos, is all just the same energy manifesting itself in millions of ways. This is something which is an experiential reality in every yogi.
The word yoga means union, or the word yogi means one who has known the oneness of existence. The whole process of yoga is about bringing this experiential reality into every human being. Scientists have deduced this reality. The religions of the world believe this reality, but a yogi is not willing to settle for either, unless he experiences it.
Recently an Israeli scientist described the human brain as a smoking pot because there are millions of cannabis receptors in the human brain. They could not explain why mind would have millions of cannabis receptors. After much research, the scientist deducted that the body itself is producing narcotics and the brain is always equipped to receive it. Only those who are producing reasonable amounts of narcotics in their system are really peaceful and joyful.
In yoga you can get into high states of bliss without any outside chemical. It has found methods to activate these high states. Internally, by doing certain things you can attain such a state. It leads to a deep sense of well being because the necessary production of narcotics is happening all the time. When not enough is happening you are just wondering why life is so dull. When you try to supplement or substitute this from outside, there are number of negative effects on the system. Along with the addiction lies the struggle and mood-swings. But people who generate it internally are very stable.
Scientists are always dismissing blissfulness or spiritual bliss as hallucination. But now, they have scientific proof to say that one can go into extreme states of pleasure and bliss within himself and it is not hallucinatory, it's chemically supported in the system.
In the last 150 to 200 years the scientific revolutions and technologies have tried to fix the external too much – especially in the western societies. But still you don't see joy in people. No other generation on this planet was ever as comfortable as we are. But, still we are not any more joyous than any other generation. In fact, probably we have more problems and more situations around us that we cannot handle than ever before. So somewhere we are going about life not knowing where we are heading to, what we want in our lives. This is simply because we are trying to handle everything logically within the physical realms of this existence.
When you are talking about energy as modern science does, you're still talking about physical energy. That's where modern science ends – with the physical. The whole spiritual process means to go beyond the physical, to know something which is not physical. That which is not physical has no dimension. That which has no dimension has no sense of here and there, now and then. Yoga is a science of bringing awareness to dimensions that are not present in your level of awareness. So yogic science begins where modern science ends.
News Hawk- Ganjarden 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: Financial Express
Author: Swami Jaggi Vasudev
Contact: Finacial Express
Copyright: 2008 Indian Express Newspapers
Website: The Bliss Within
The word yoga means union, or the word yogi means one who has known the oneness of existence. The whole process of yoga is about bringing this experiential reality into every human being. Scientists have deduced this reality. The religions of the world believe this reality, but a yogi is not willing to settle for either, unless he experiences it.
Recently an Israeli scientist described the human brain as a smoking pot because there are millions of cannabis receptors in the human brain. They could not explain why mind would have millions of cannabis receptors. After much research, the scientist deducted that the body itself is producing narcotics and the brain is always equipped to receive it. Only those who are producing reasonable amounts of narcotics in their system are really peaceful and joyful.
In yoga you can get into high states of bliss without any outside chemical. It has found methods to activate these high states. Internally, by doing certain things you can attain such a state. It leads to a deep sense of well being because the necessary production of narcotics is happening all the time. When not enough is happening you are just wondering why life is so dull. When you try to supplement or substitute this from outside, there are number of negative effects on the system. Along with the addiction lies the struggle and mood-swings. But people who generate it internally are very stable.
Scientists are always dismissing blissfulness or spiritual bliss as hallucination. But now, they have scientific proof to say that one can go into extreme states of pleasure and bliss within himself and it is not hallucinatory, it's chemically supported in the system.
In the last 150 to 200 years the scientific revolutions and technologies have tried to fix the external too much – especially in the western societies. But still you don't see joy in people. No other generation on this planet was ever as comfortable as we are. But, still we are not any more joyous than any other generation. In fact, probably we have more problems and more situations around us that we cannot handle than ever before. So somewhere we are going about life not knowing where we are heading to, what we want in our lives. This is simply because we are trying to handle everything logically within the physical realms of this existence.
When you are talking about energy as modern science does, you're still talking about physical energy. That's where modern science ends – with the physical. The whole spiritual process means to go beyond the physical, to know something which is not physical. That which is not physical has no dimension. That which has no dimension has no sense of here and there, now and then. Yoga is a science of bringing awareness to dimensions that are not present in your level of awareness. So yogic science begins where modern science ends.
News Hawk- Ganjarden 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: Financial Express
Author: Swami Jaggi Vasudev
Contact: Finacial Express
Copyright: 2008 Indian Express Newspapers
Website: The Bliss Within
