SPLENDOR OF YOGA -- PART -- 12

SOME REALITIES ABOUT YOGA

YOGA is completely rational system for training a man to reach the highest possible levels of integrations. It can stand the tests of modern science also. It is universal, not bound by dogmas and beliefs of any particular religion. That it is available to all, irrespective of any limitation of race,caste,creed,sex, nationality, age, etc.,etc.
YOGA is the perfect control of mind and consiciousness on all its level. With perfection in it, the man is established in his absolute,genuine, unsullied state. In all other states, he is tainted by and involved in mental aberrations.
YOGA is a training by which man remains completely unaffected by worldly happenings. YOGA is complete freedom from misery.
.....women, commercial people and even those of lowest level, can reach the highest goal of YOGA.
As well as young,old, very old,decript, diseased, or weak person will attain success if he practses YOGA untiringly.

WHAT YOGA IS:
Many people have very wrong or confused conception about YOGA. They equate it to difficult, painful, acrobat-like feats performed by some mendicaments who are mistaken for yogins. Thus lying on a bed of nails, or swallowing glass-pieces, acids, poisons, and such other things are mistaken for yogic achievements. Others, seeing some elementary practices of some yoga schools, consider it to be a system of gymnastics for body building. Some consider it as a mystical system, some times associating it with certain religious rituals, or certain legendary gains of supernormal or miraculous power like walking on water, or in the fire, or flying through air,etc.
But YOGA essentially has nothing to do with these things. It is a very old, well-tested scientific system of training human organism in all its aspects-body, mind and spirit, and bring into it the highest possible integration.
Thus YOGA may be said to be a method to produce a well integrated man who is nearer to "super-man" as postulated even by some of today's thinkers.
All these definitions clearly indicate that YOGA is considered to be a method of producng a man who is most integrated, equilibrated, master of his own mind, who can face the adversities of the world and life blodly and overcome them in the most successful way.

THIS IS THE REASON W.H.O, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CALLS IT AS YOGA THERAPY IS AN ART OF CURING DISEASES. MANY COUNTRIES INTRODUCED YOGA TRAINING EVEN TO THE WELL ORGANIZED MILITARY PERSONS AND MANY CORPORATE COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD STARTED GIVING TRAINING TO THEIR ALREADY HIGHLY SKILLED WORKFORCE TO FURTHER MAKE THEM STRONG AND INTELLIGENT.