The True Purpose of Yoga

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The True Purpose of Yoga

What is human is not an established state. It is a possibility. It is not a fixed state. If this possibility has to be made use of, there’s a whole system of understanding that needs to happen. Understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it. This mechanics, this technology, this science, we are referring to as yoga.

I don’t know what types of stuff you’re doing, but my experience in United States, particularly in California, a lot of people believe yoga started in California. Yes. I met somebody who seriously believed it was Madonna who started yoga. Yes. So this mechanics of life, this is as simple as this, I’m sure almost all of you are carrying an instrument, some kind of an electronic instrument. A phone, at least. The more you know about this phone, the better you can use it. Is that true?

Yes.

Last year, the cell phone companies in India made a survey. India’s the largest growing market for telecommunications right now. Every month we are adding about five and a half million cell phones. Okay. In a year, about 60 million cell phones are being added to the service, because everybody’s having three, four, five these days.

They made a survey. That’s the second one. You haven’t heard the first one. The made a survey and they found out that 97% of the people are using only 7% of the capabilities that are there in an ordinary phone. I’m not talking about the smart phone. I’m talking about the dumb phone. In the dumb phone, 97% of the people are using only 7% of its capabilities.

So they were contemplating, if 90% of the electronics, still most people will never know. We can even give them a 500 rupee discount. They will be happy, we will be happy. Maybe they have already taken it off. We don’t know. Only if you try to use all of them, all the functions, then you realize something is not working. In a little gadget you’re using only 7%. This is the gadget. Every damn gadget has come out of this. How much percentage do you think are you employing this gadget? Just make a guess. How much percentage? Two? Five? You’re being very generous to yourself. It’s well below 1% because for your survival process, to conduct your life in the material world, you do not even need 1% of what this is. This is capable of perceiving the whole cosmos. If you prepare it properly, if you hold it, it’s like an antenna, if you hold it in the right position, it can just grasp everything in existence. It is just that we are doing all kinds of things with it because right now our whole perception of life is limited to the physical nature of the existence.

Physical is like the peel of the fruit. It has no purpose of its own in the sense if you have a fruit, the moment you eat the fruit, the peel goes straight to the trashcan. The peel is only a package. Only because the fruit is valuable, the package is important. Right now as you sit here, this body is very important. You have to feed this, you have to clothe this, you have to decorate this, you have to pamper this in so many ways. Tomorrow morning, that’s something inside which you never experience. If that goes away, nobody wants to have any business with this. Yes? Only because the fruit is inside, this peel has become very valuable.

Now, yoga means not just about twisting your body, not about standing on your head, not about holding your breath. All these things a circus artist can do better than most yogis. Really. You don’t think so? A circus artist can move far better than most yogis in terms of twisting the body, doing this, doing that, holding different positions. That is not the purpose of yoga. Unfortunately, if you utter the word yoga, people think you have to be in some impossible posture. Yoga is not about postures. It is just a minuscule aspect of yoga. Yoga means, in your experience, everything has become one. The word yoga means union.

What is the union? What can unite with what? As you sit here, your idea and your sense and your experience of who you are is very strong. You’re here as an individual. What the trees are exhaling right now, you’re inhaling. What you’re exhaling, the trees are inhaling. In other words, one half of your lung is hanging out there. This is not just in terms of breath. Today modern physics has proven to you that as you sit here, every super dominant particle in your body is in constant transaction with everything else in existence. If this transaction stops, you will cease to exist. Yoga means to know it by experience. Modern science is proving to you the whole existence is just one thing.

The religions of the world have been screaming for a long time that God is everywhere. Whether you say God is everywhere or you say everything is one in its own, are we talking about the same reality or a different reality? God is everywhere. Everything is same energy. Are we talking about the same reality or a different reality? Same reality. It is just that a scientist has never experienced this. He has arrived at it through mathematical deductions. A religious person has not experienced it. He believes it because it’s written somewhere or it’s said by somebody. If you’re a hard case, that you’re not willing to settle for deductions or belief systems, then you become a yogi. Yes, if you’re a very hard nut, you want to know it yourself. Then you become a yogi. You want to know the union of the existence. You want to know the oneness of what it is, not believing it. Like you experience the five fingers of your hand, if you can experience everything around you, then we say you’re in yoga.