The Science of Yoga

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The Science of Yoga

If it is an art, every artist has the freedom to do it in his own way, because, after all, it’s his whim. An artist can paint a human being brown, as my skin is, or he can paint him blue, if he likes it, which we have done in India plenty. You can paint him green, you can paint him yellow, you can make him pink, if you like it. That is the whim of the artist. Need not have anything to do with reality. We have separated in the art forms, realistic art forms and the whim of the artist art forms. A human being can be painted any way the artist whims. Suppose you were a doctor and you open up human body. By your whim, you cannot do whatever you wish. The scalpel of a surgeon cannot move with the freedom as a painter’s brush. Yoga is a science, a technology. Everybody cannot do whatever they whim. It needs to be handled in a certain way. It is a certain process of evolving this human being from his limitations to his ultimate possibility.

What is ultimate possibility? If you have a backache right now, getting rid of your backache is the ultimate possibility. Don’t laugh. Backache is not a simple thing. When you get it, you will know. Those who do not have it can laugh. “What backache? Ha ha ha.” When you have it, it’s not a laughing matter. It’s a big thing. At that moment, you will see, getting rid of backache is the ultimate possibility in human life. At every point, whatever compulsions we are trapped in, becoming free from that looks like the ultimate possibility. There may be so many types of yogas catering to all this.

This is a serious mistake that is being made that is using yoga as a cure for backache, using yoga as a cure for diabetes or blood pressure, using yoga as a way to live stress-free, using yoga to improve your concentration, using yoga to be able to be more effective in the world, using yoga to become more prosperous. I’m not saying these things are wrong, but limiting yoga to this, it is not wrong, it’s just a crime. Crime is not a wrong thing. If you commit a crime, if you’re caught, you’ll be punished. Maybe you were not caught by the law enforcement, but you had to hide in the gutter. That is a bad enough price. You had to walk with fear, watching your shadows. That is a bad enough price. Crime is not a wrong thing. There is a serious price to pay.

The same thing, if you employ a technology which will take you to the heights in many simple ways which may be useful for immediate purposes, there will be a price to pay. If you had an airplane that could fly and you didn’t understand what an airplane is, you thought it’s a car and you started driving on the street and then your neighbors complained, other users of the road complained. What is your car having these funny things like this? You chopped off the wings and you started driving this airplane around. You are happy. It goes faster than your neighbor’s car. Someone who knows what it means to fly, if he sees this, he will cry. I do not want to comment about something that I only see. The little that I’ve seen. What’s happening in the name of yoga, I want to cry, but what to do? The only thing you can do is you better laugh because otherwise, all the time, you’ll be crying.