The Best Way to Master Yogasana

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The Best Way to Master Yogasana

These 84 asanas, which are the fundamental yogasanas, are 84 ways to make the body into passage. It is not necessary, actually, for everybody to do 84 asanas. If they do one, it is enough. Usually, hatha yogis, serious hatha yogis, who are taking Hatha Yoga as their path to liberation, practice only one asana. Just one asana. It is difficult for a thinking mind to understand.

Why would somebody spend his whole life trying to sit in a particular way? If you learn to sit right, if you just learn to hold your body right; everything that you need to know in this universe, you can know. This is known as asanasiddhi. If you can sit in a posture, stable and comfortable, for 2 1/2 hours; then we say you have attained to asanasiddhi. That you are in absolute comfort and at ease in a particular posture. That is asanasiddhi. If you achieve this, every thing that you need to know, one can know internally.

How is this possible? How can by sitting, you can know everything that you can know? If you have a television at home, television is just a box with a little bit of electronics in it; but it becomes a world by itself. The whole world can stream into this place that we call the television, or this box that we call the television, simply because there is a receiving mode. If you set the antenna right, if it is properly adjusted, then the whole world flows into your place, or into this box. If it is not set right, the same instrument; it has everything, but can’t do anything. This is how a human being is.

An individual human being is who he is only because of what he perceives. Only because of what he or she perceives, an individual human being becomes whoever they are. Right now you are who you are, only because of whatever you have perceived in your life until now. You will be who you will be only because of what you will perceive in future. Whatever you perceive, is what makes you whatever you are today.

The whole system of yoga is only interested in enhancing perception. If you hold a posture right, if you’re alignment is right, and if it matches with the cosmic alignment in some way … 84 alignments. If one gets into these 84 postures, or even masters a single posture, and approaches the remaining 83 through that; then everything that has happened in the creation until this moment, one can know. Because the memory of that is right here within your system. Let us say in a codified way, it can be activated and ignited if it touches another dimension outside of yourself.

Asanas are powerful means. Yogasanas are powerful means to connect. I do not want you to forget what yoga means. Yoga means union. Union means two have become one. Two means just this. There are only two in the existence; you and the rest of the existence. In the rest of existence, you may identify this one, that one, that one; but essentially there are only two. You and the rest of the existence, because there are only two dimensions of experience within you.

You do not know what is up and down in this cosmos. You do not know what is forward and backward in this cosmos. You do not know anything. These are all things that we have made up for convenience. The only experiential reality is … There is something called outward, and there is something called inward. These are the two dimensions of experience, inner and outer.

Yoga means to bring a union between these inner and outer; you and the rest, you and the other. When there is no you and the other, there is just you and you. That is yoga.

Asanas are a physical manifestation of approaching this, a physical form of approaching this ultimate union. Because physical body is the easiest thing to work with. If you try to do something with your mind, it will play too many tricks. At least with the body, you know whether it’s doing it right or not doing it right, whether it’s cooperating or not cooperating. A mind, if you push it too hard, it will play all kinds of tricks with you. It will make you believe all kinds of things and dump you the next day.

The body is not like that. It is a reliable factor. If you work with it sensibly, the yogasanas will definitely lead to the possibility of ultimate union. In the meantime, by getting into the postures, before all this alignment with the ultimate happens, inner alignment happens will naturally achieve a chemistry of healthfulness, joyfulness, and blissfulness, and above all balance.

Balance is something that modern societies have ignored, and they’re paying a huge price for it today. What ever may be your intelligence, what ever may be your competence and education and qualifications; if you do not have the necessary balance, you will not succeed. You will not go very far in your life. The most important thing for people who are seeking to be successful … People, whether they are working in the corporate sector or the political or the military or whatever field; the most important thing is balance. Only if you have a balance, which is not disturbed by external situations, will you be capable of making use of the competence and intelligence that you carry within you. Otherwise, the most wonderful qualities that one may have will all go waste. Simply because of lack of balance. Hatha Yoga means balance.