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'Yoga Is Actually a Ladder to Divinity' Now If You Transform Your Or Sheaths The Navhind Times 27-Aug-2007 'Yoga is actually a ladder to Divinity' Now if you transform your or sheaths. The first sheath Well-known spiritual leader, Sadhguru energies and try to reach or the first layer of the the ultimate, we call this body is called annamaya Jaggi Vasudev talks to The Navhind kriya yoga. But nobody is kosha or the food body, all head, or all heart, or all because what you call as Times on the science of yoga and hands, or all energy; you physical is just a heap of "inner engineering" on the eve of a are a combination of these food. The second is called four dimensions. So, if you manonmaya kosha or the 7-day camp by his Isha Foundation in want to grow, you need a mental body. These first Panaji. Excerpts: combination of these four two things you can only paths of Bhakti, Gnana, function in connection Kriya and Karma. What we with the third dimension, What are the therapies Definitely. All the work offer as Isha Yoga is a syn- the energy body. You can in Yoga? that we do in yoga is to thesis of all these. compare it to the comput- The question is coming transform one from his ex- ers today; there is hard- because there is a misun- isting nature to experience How is the scientific ware and software, but by derstanding about what something which is beyond practice of yoga and "In- themselves they cannot do yoga really is. When we say his physical, something ner Engineering" done? anything; unless you plug yoga, we are referring to Inner Engineering is a the computer into quality a certain state - a certain technology, it is not a phi- power, nothing happens. way of being. The word losophy or a belief system. So the third layer of the yoga literally means union. As there is a technology for body is the energy body, Union means when you external well-being, there or the pranamaya kosha. begin to experience the is a whole technology for The fourth is known as vi- oneness of existence. Yes, inner well-being, which gnanamaya kosha, and the yogic practices can heal everybody must make use fifth as the anandamaya and rejuvenate the body of, whatever they may be kosha or the bliss body. and help establish physi- doing. For example - dur- Pranamaya kosha is cal, mental and inner well- ing summer the mercury being. But health benefits the dimension in which soars, which your body most of the yogic prac- derived from yoga are its cannot handle. So inside side-effects. Yoga is actu- tices function. If you keep your office or home you ally a ladder to the Divine. your energy body or your It is a grand unification, a have a technology to con- pranamaya kosha in per- much more than what he trol the temperature. This level of perception where has experienced physically. fect balance and fully acti- everything is one. is engineering which has vated, there can be no such The transformation can be brought us external well- But it is a reality that with of the body, mind, emo- thing as disease either in being, isn't it? Similarly, your physical body or in today's lifestyles, because of tion and energy. there is a whole technology unconscious, improper liv- your mental body. In yoga, What are the most valid to create an inner climate when we say health, we ing, improper eating, im- the way you want it. If you proper attitudes, improper and scientific methods for don't look at the body; we had a choice of an inner understanding of life the self-transformation ? don't look at the mind; we different aspects of a hu- In yoga, we ensure that climate, I don't even have only look at the energy - man being, body, mind, fundamentally a human to ask you, I'm sure you the way it is. If your energy emotion and energy have being can grow or reach his would make it very joyful body is in proper balance become unbalanced and ultimate nature, or the Di- for yourself. You wouldn't and full flow, your physi- certain corrective measures vine, or whatever you want make it in any way strife- cal body and mental body need to be taken. This is to call it, by approaching it ridden. So Inner Engineer- will be in perfect health. done by balancing and ac- either through the body, ing offers powerful meth- Keeping the energy body tivating the vibrancy of the the mind, emotion or ods to re-engineer one's in full flow is not about energy body. If one brings through inner energies. If self through the inner sci- doing any kind of healing more consciousness and you use your emotion and ence of yoga and optimize or things like that. This is awareness to the way one's try to reach the ultimate, it all aspects of health, inner about going to the foun- is called bhakti yoga, the own system functions, growth and success. dations of your energy path of devotion. If you health will be a natural system and activating it in outcome. True health fun- use your intelligence and How can one bring try to reach the ultimate, a proper way, building a damentally means to be in physical, mental and in- foundational yogic prac- tune with nature; both the we call it gnana yoga, the ner well- being through path of intelligence. If you tice that establishes your inner and outer. this Science of Yoga? energy in such a way that use your body, or physical In yoga, we are looking action to reach the ulti- your body and mind are Can self-transforma- at the human body as five naturally fine. tion be achieved by yoga? mate, we call it karma yoga. dimensions or five layers.
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