Sri Arvind ka Yog

श्री अरविन्द का योग ( पूर्ण योग )

जब कभी हम पर परेशानियाँ आती हैं हम भगवान को याद करते हैं, उसकी पूजा करते हैं, उसका ध्यान करते हैं, उससे प्रार्थना करते हैं या वह सत्य खोजने की चेष्टा करते हैं जिससे कि ज्ञात हो कि हमारे ऊपर यह परेशानी क्यों आई.
इन दोनों ही प्रक्रियायों में हम संसार की गतिविधियों से थोड़ा दूर हट जाते हैं. हम पाते हैं कि इससे हमारी परेशानी समाप्त हो जाती है या कम होना शुरू हो जाती है. इससे एक लाभ तो होता है कि हमें यह ज्ञान होता है कि भगवान कि तरफ बढने या सत्य की जिज्ञासा मात्र से भी हमारे जीवन में शांति बढती है पर इससे एक हानि भी होती है कि हमारे मन में यह धारणा बनने लग जाती है कि संसार की गतिविधियों में लगे रहने पर हमें शांति नहीं मिल सकती. ये अनुभव हमें पलायनवाद की शिक्षा भी देतें हैं.
योग का अर्थ भगवान से जुड़ना होता है. हमें विभिन्न योगों ने भगवान से जुड़ने की विभिन्न पद्धतियाँ बताई हैं पर सभी योगों में यह माना जाता है कि यदि भगवान से जुड़ना है तो संसार छोड़ना पड़ेगा परन्तु श्री अरविन्द - योग ( पूर्ण - योग ) में हम भगवान से जुड़ते हैं, भगवान को प्राप्त करते हैं, भगवान को संसार में उतारते हैं और अंतिम लक्ष्य भगवान को संसार में अभिव्यक्त करते हैं.

Progress

Everyone wants to do progress. But the question arises that do we know what the actual meaning of progress is? No. We always have some desires and if these are fulfilled, we think we do progress. But we do not know that actually we are progressing or not.

Our life is full of experience. Whatever we do, we gain some experiences. So we should keep an eye on what we are doing. Sometimes we do not do anything and think this is the state of meditation, but there can be illusion also. Meditation is the state in which one can concentrate totally to the Divine and keep sublime consciousness. So the simplest way suggested to get out of this illusion is to do work. While we do work, we can be in contact with others or we face some different conditions. So in such case we can be conscious about our progress or we can think about that what progress is remained. When we move socially then it is just like an examination that actually we are progressing or not. When we sit quietly alone we cannot judge the actual progress. We just need to check by how much extent we are quiet and conscious in the society and this extent would show us that there is progress or not. But it does not mean that we should move in the society always. Sri Aurobindo has done a lot of work in a jail room alone. We also can do it if we are conscious about our progress and illusion is not there.

So for a true progress we must know that what kind of people around us and how can we maintain our peace while dealing with them and keeping ourself conscious. We should not lose our temper whatever the difficulty is. If we can remeber God in every situation and keep patience the solution will come. And this is the solution which will lead us to the true progress.

Equality

Equality

Samatvam Yoga Uchyate. ( Equality is called Yoga )
Gita Chapter-2 Verse-48

Can we use equality in our day to day life. If we take a very outer meaning of this word than it is quite correct that we can not practise equality. Even Lord Krishna who has given these words is saying at another place---
Paritranaya Sadhunam Vinashaya cha Dushkritam ( Chap-4 ver-8 ) means I save good persons and kill bad persons. When he himself differentiates between good and bad persons then without knowing the real meaning of this word it is quite impossible to live equality in life.
Its secret lies in another verse of The Gita---
Karmanyevadhikaraste Ma Faleshu Kadachan (Cha-2 ver-47 ) means the right of work has been given to us ( By God ) but not of results. So we should do our work with being indifferent to the fruits of actions. This indifference will kill all our desires and if we do not have desires then there will be no anger. And if we have no desires and anger then the practice of equality is very easy.
After that if we are killing a person for a cause of truth then our equality will not be shaken by this action. Our outer forms of behavior may be quite different but inwardly we will be in equality. There will be no foe no friend of us. This equality will tell us the truth. Whatever we will do that will be the benefit for others. We may look hard, we may look very soft but that will be only an outer thing. We will be living always in equality.
And one day we will feel that my soul and the souls of others are same and after that we will feel that a single soul is residing in all creatures of the world.

15 August

15 August
Sri Aurobindo was born on 15 august 1872. Here I am not interested to write his life history. I just want to write a little on his philosophy, on his yoga. He invented a new path of yoga. In his path the aim of human life is not Moksha. He said that we leave our parts namely mental, vital and physical untransformed in the path of Moksha. He wanted to transform these parts and for that descent of a God-Consciousness-he named it Supramental-Consciousness- is necessary. This Supramental-Consciousness is present in the creation. Some old Rishis ( The Seers ) had seen it but due to unprepared conditions of the earth they did not try for its descent. Sri Aurobindo was trying from the very beginning of this earth to prepare the conditions of the earth to descend this Supramental-Consciousness with his perennial Divine –Collaborator the Mother. In this birth he realized that now the conditions of the descent upon earth are fully ripe. So he started the work of descent with the Mother.

This Supramental-Consciousness works twofold. It descends to earth and awakes the aspiration through soul of man to come upward. Only man among all the creatures of the universe can participate in this work because he alone has psychic ( A spark of Divine- consciousness ). But this Supramental-Consciousness never allows the soul to come and live in the highest world of Supramental- Consciousness. It inspires soul to change his mental, vital and physical. And it is the aim of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga which he named Integral Yoga.

It is a very childlike description of Integral Yoga. We see the main thing in this yoga is an aspiration. Although each and every man has it and the Supramental-Consciousness is trying to awaken it but a man can expedite this process by his personal efforts. We see as per philosophy it is so high that it goes beyond Moksha and so far its sadhana is concerned it is the easiest one. If we aspire and open our self to Supramental-Consciousness to descend into us then we can go very quickly towards the Goal.

Wait and See

Wait and See

In day to day life to have patience is a must. But if we want to live a spiritual life then without patience we will be quite unable to go a step forward.

Why patience has such an importance in spiritual life, it is a question. The answer is in living a spiritual life our soul always expands its field because it is the nature of soul to expand itself up to infinite. And this expansion of soul assails on negative forces of this world and subtle worlds. So they also start attacks to counter it. These counter attacks become hindrances for a seeker.

Secondly soul always strives to live a truthful life. It makes a truthful atmosphere around the seeker and it increases day by day. It also attacks on negative forces which never want to see the reign of Truth on this world and other subtle worlds. It also attracts their attacks. Their attacks outwardly slow down the progress and the results come slow.

God never takes tests of us. They are these negative forces which throw hindrances and problems on us. If we get disappointed and lose our patience then these negative forces get stronger and we will be defeated by them on our path.

So we should always have a great patience in our spiritual path.

The Real Aim of Our Life

The Real Aim of Our Life

A man is going somewhere; you stop him and ask, ‘Where are you going?’ He replies, ‘I do not know where I am going.’ What will you think of him.

But if you ask a question to some people, ‘What is the aim of your life?’ You will see almost all of them are unable to reply the question.

We never think on what is the aim of our life, what for we are here. We may leave to expect to get reply of this question from a person up to an age of 20 years. But after that if a person is not conscious about this question, he is the same person as given in the example.

We should give some time daily to think upon this question. Sometimes it will take our sleep. But it will give us some benefits at once and some day by day. We will see that our personality is becoming stronger. We were used to be influenced by everybody but now we will not be influenced by everybody. We will learn to say ‘No’. And to know to say ‘No’ is the final achievement for our personality. We will start to know the inner truth of every incident of our life. And a day will come when we will know our real ‘I’. But we will not stop here. This real ‘I’ will tell us the real cause of this world- existence. And ultimately this will tell the real aim of our life.

But our growth will be going on and by every forward step we will get an increasing peace. After some time this peace will be so condensed that our outer circumstances will be unable to shake our inner peace. Next step will be that whoever will come in our touch will feel a peace.

So it is worthwhile to think upon what is the real aim of our life.

The Elderliness

The Elderliness

Being elder is the toughest thing in the world. Age wise we are being elder at every second. A child gets birth, is the youngest in the world but after a second so many other children have taken birth. And this one is now one second elder to them. We will not take the matter in such a large scope. Elderliness is a comparative phenomenon but here we are taking it as a non-comparative thing.

After some time we see we are being called by some others as an elder brother or sister and after some more time we are listening the word ‘Uncle’ for us. We are getting the due respect belongs to these words. In our working place also we get seniority.

We know that this word ‘Respect’ is the main instinct of all our activities. All the money and all the posts we acquire are just to acquire the respect from others in our life. It is the most material form of the word ‘Love’.

But it is also giving us unknowingly a responsibility. And as being elder is the toughest thing so its linked thing responsibility is. Sometimes we do not want to sit on our study as we have completed all our course but our younger brother is not sincere to his study so we just sit on our study to show him that we are very sincere to our study.

In working place an administrator is highly responsible for his outer discipline too. He may be very fast in his work and clear up all his work in a very short time but he has to follow his office timings otherwise it may create a misbalance in office atmosphere.

And if we are in a social, religious or political field than our responsibility is the highest. Because the figures in the mentioned fields lead our society, our country and control the deeds of ordinary persons.
What Lord Krishna says in the Gita is very inspiring:

Yad Yadacharati shreshthastattadevetaro janah,
Sa yat pramanam kurute lokastadanuvartate.
Gita, Chapter-3, Verse-21
Whatever an Ideal man does, ordinary men follow the same,
Whatever he says even as ideal(work), other men follow the same.