Out with the Old, in with the New: How 2020 Has Made Us Follow Yoga Yoga and Heart Care Aggressive Living Gathering Pebbles
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YOGAJANUIARSY 2021 AMONTHLYT NEWSLETTERT OF THEV YOGA INSTITUTE,A INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD Out with the old, in with the new: HAPPY How 2020 has made NEW us follow yoga YEAR Hansaji J. Yogendra Yoga and Heart Care Dr. Shantharam Shetty Aggressive Living By Shri Yogendra Gathering Pebbles 2021 Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra YOGASATTVA JANUARY 2021 CONTENTS F E AT U R E D 11-13 Y O G I C A C T I V I T Y I N S I G H T S 21 Gathering Pebbles H E A D L I N E S Events and happenings at The Yoga Institute around the world 5 14-19 Out with the old, in with the new: How 2020 has made us follow yoga Not much To lose Hella Naura R E C I P E O F 6-7 T H E M O N T H 22 Y O G A M D No-bake Cucumber Coin Pizza Yoga and 8 Heart Care Y O G A C E L E B R AT E S 2 3 T E S T I M O N I A L S Dr. Shantaram Shetty L I F E 2 5 U P C O M I N G Y O G A T E C H N I Q U E Aggressive Living A C T I V I T I E S O F T H E M O N T H 20 Shri Yogendraji 2 7 P U B L I C AT I O N S Karnarandhra Dhouti & C E N T R E S 9 The Yoga Institute Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. Email: [email protected] T R A N S F O R M AT I O N Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 T H R O U G H Y O G A www.theyogainstitute.org Follow us on Finding strength through acceptance and self-reliance 10 EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, A warm welcome to you all into this new year. I would like to quote our Founder, Shri Yogendraji, to start the 1st issue of 2021 - Hold on and see what happens. Then learn to let go and see what happens. The difference will be evident. Choose what you think is best for your growth. With gratitude, let’s consciously let go of the last year and welcome the present with mindful living, that is Yoga way of living. Hansa Maa also guides us with an appropriate quote from Bhagavad Gita, Whatever had happened, had happened for good. Whatever will be happening, will be happening also for our own good. And whatever is happening right now, also is going to do good to us. With such motivating statements from our beloved Gurus, we have faith that we will progress ahead with condence to evolve stronger and healthier. To commemorate The Yoga Institute’s 102 Foundation Day, Hon’ble Ayush Minister, Shripad Y Naik was the Chief Guest. The virtual meet was organized to introduce and launch the TYI Meditation App, Nispanda. He also lauded TYI’s several COVID-led initiatives during the pandemic to serve people and society. Smt. Anuradha Paudwal ji also joined the grand celebration of 102 years by distributing meals at the Annam Brahma, an initiative that was started in the fond memory of Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra. While it is a norm to intend various resolutions for the new year, for 2021 we are sure that most of us are going to put ‘Yoga for good health’ as a priority on our resolution list. The pandemic has taught us to primarily take care of our health and wellbeing. WIshing you all a very happy, healthy and safe 2021. PraneeHYogendra Pranee Hrishi Yogendra 3 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM 4 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM Out with the old, in with the new: How 2020 has made us follow yoga any people are glad that 2020 has come to an end but So this is a very good time, according to me, because people we should look at the Bhagavad Gita and take our knowingly or unknowingly, are following the path of yoga. Mlesson from there: Whatever had happened, had Becoming self-reliant, and awareness has been quite at a high, happened for good. Whatever will be happening, will be in this time where a person is trying to do something which is not happening also for our own good. And whatever is happening so convenient also, covering the face and going, and keeping right now, also is going to do good to us. So there is no point distance, which we do not like, yet still we are doing it because looking back with sadness or we ourselves have become more looking ahead in fear. If we look at capable, more understanding the present, we can say these are and we can adjust to all such tough times; times that have This is a time where for many trying situations. So we have never been there before, d e n i t e l y s e e n t h a t o u r something new. But this tough people, the whole attitude capacities have been increased time makes tough people only; it towards life has changed and increased quite a lot. helps any weakness to go. because now we have started For 2021, in this New Year, we This is a tough time and this is a can certainly look ahead with a time where the value of family is enjoying what we have rather lot of condence because we understood. This is a time where have managed the year that is for many people, the whole than what we want. behind us, we have learned our attitude towards life has changed lessons and we can apply them because now we have started now to become stronger, better enjoying what we have rather than what we want. In fact, this is and more balanced human beings. Wish you all a happy, the time when wants have been reduced to a great extent and healthy and joyous year 2021. that is quite positive as this is the time when a person tries to be satised with the minimum. So these are all very strong lessons we have learned in this 2020. For once, this is the time where everybody has become more health-conscious. And through that, we become very much self- reliant because the moment the symptom of any problem comes in, we immediately try and attend to it and not allow that symptom to grow to become a problem or a disease. Earlier, we would have waited or said we had no time to attend to the problem, that there were more pressing issues but now, our own health has become the top priority. Because only when we Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra ourselves are healthy can we help ours, do our duty and be Director, The Yoga Institute. useful in our communities. 5 YOGASATTVA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY Not Much To Lose 6 YOGASATTVA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY HAT do we defend most if we are threatened? What Hurt do we add to daily life to make it stronger? What is the Now this is a way of conduct that really hurts the person himself. Wgreatest source of hurt to us? It is our ego. Who or It also provokes certain unpleasant reactions in the person’s what is this ego? Is it the person or his personality? Yes, but it surroundings because if he constantly accuses others, he will cannot be all of a person because all of us have probably bring out their bad sides rather than their good will (as a German experienced something like this at one time or the other: In a proverb says: “the echo you get depends on the way you call.”). moment of peaceful quietness one forgets all about oneself. Or: Reasons should recommend this person to look at his fellow- One gets so absorbed by something one nds beautiful that one men in a more objective way and behave in another manner. does not think of anything else for a little while. Or: One loves But this is exactly what the person refuses to do. Why? Firstly, someone and thinks of what is good for him, and not only of what because reason is not all in human behaviour and decision- is good for oneself. In all these cases the ego is temporarily making. It belongs to the conscious part in us, but the ego also forgotten, yet one feels very much present and alive. So the ego comprises the subconscious, as we have seen. Consequently, cannot be all. the subconscious determines just as much, and other than the conscious part, it is not concerned with reason, logic or utility at The Psychoanalytical View all. Secondly, the ego wants to assert itself and wants the Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis at the satisfaction of being right, even if this can only be had at the cost beginning of the last century, conceived thehuman psyche and of suffering. So looking again at our example of a person with mind as having three aspects: the id or subconscious part, the the fear of being taken advantage of in a wicked world, we can ego or conscious part, and the superego, a kind of moral see that this person will rather suffer exploitation – real or authority or judge in us. This authority is originally imposed from imagined – than admit that his view of the worlds is wrong or at outside, mainly through the parents in early childhood, but is least one-sided.