Yoga............for World Peace

YOGA……….for world peace.

You know

What starts the day?

Will you believe?

It’s Yoga.

Yes,

It’s Yoga.

Right in your bed.

When you feel

You had good rest

Over the night’s sleep,

It just not suffices to

Kick start the day

Right away.

You just stretch

From head to toe

Right in the bed.

The problem is we

Let it at that

And we head into

Humdrum of the day straight.

Sort of mechanics sets in,

Rather than enjoyment

Of life

From

Moment to moment.

Even as a novice

In Yoga learning,

Am dead sure

Practice of yoga

Through and throughout

The day

Can keep you

Alive and agile.

You may laugh,

If I may say so.

From the moment you

Stretch to get

Out of bed

And slowly stride

To open the front

Door to fetch your milk,

Your bowel begins its

Process.

We, Indians when we

Lived in

Villages and small towns,

We squatted.

As we migrated to cities,

We aped the westerner.

The irony is that 

The commode traverses

Now to 

Nooks and corners of

Every small habitats. 

So graduation to sitting

From squatting.

Squat or sit

You can do asans.

Squat in itself is a work out.

Gives the push in the bowel

To gush out,

Overnight’s digested stuff.

Come to sitting.

While the process to gush out

Is still on, and you are a

Bit sure of complete

Cleansing of bowel,

Don’t rush.

Just lift up both arms,

Without getting up

Do a slight stretch

From waist skywards,

Sorry

Your bath-room ceiling-wards,

Do a gentle few centimeter twist to

Your body

Both sides – right and left.

Come out of bath-room,

You can do veerbhadra asan itself.

And then go for

Padahasthasana,

Trikonasana,

tadasana

and

posture after

posture.

But all you need

To keep in mind

Is

Not to overstrain.

For strain has no

Space in Yoga.

Stretch only

As much as

Your body allows.

Not to worry,

As your practice progresses,

You’ll be able to stretch more.

The benefit of Yoga

Is

It just doesn’t bring in

Rhythm and alignment in

Your physicality

And

Fine frame of mind,

But the same

Rhyme and rhythm

Extend to your every

Single activity.

Rigor mortis set in

When Bhagavan did His

Atma Vichara and

Enacted how was

It to feel death,

“Who am I?”.

Yet He could feel

The pulsating

Prana despite

He controlled breath

And felt like a corpse.

To rest after a few posture,

Your Yog Guru tells you

To do

‘saavasan’ and relax.

You completely dissolve

And feel a

Magical Oneness

That Bhagavan felt in

His Atma Vichara.

For the world

To be

In Peace,

Get fast into Yoga

And bring the

Magical healing process,

Which the whole world

Is in dire need right now.

Yoga is not just a repetition of a few postures – it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
Amit Ray