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YOGAFEB 2020SAMONTHLYT NEWSLETTERT OF THEV YOGA INSTITUTE,A INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD DR. JAYADEVA YOGENDRA Day of Remembrance | FEB 16th YOGASATTVA FEBRUARY 2020 CONTENTS F E AT U R E D F O U N D E R ’ S A C T I V I T Y A R T I C L E • Social Initiatives • Regular Pregnancy Class • World‘s 1st Ever Free Need for 24 365 Days On Call Yoga 10 Consultation Discipline H E A D L I N E S Events & Happening at The Yoga Institute 4 around the world. P E A R L S O F W I S D O M Your Relationship to your Self R E C I P E O F and Others T H E M O N T H 25 Smt. Hansaji Jayadeva Yogendra Kheer Makhana RELATIONSHIPS 2 6 T E S T I M O N I A L S Vandana Trivedi 6 2 8 U P C O M I N G A C T I V I T I E S Y O G A M D 14-22 Y O G A 3 1 P U B L I C AT I O N S Medical 7 C E L E B R AT E S L I F E Questions & Answers & C E N T R E S Make Life better Dr. S. R. Shah with Yoga Y O G A T E C H N I Q U E Honourable Governor O F T H E M O N T H Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari 23 YOGENDRA LAYA 8 T R A N S F O R M AT I O N The Yoga Institute Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, T H R O U G H Y O G A Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. Email: [email protected] Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 www.theyogainstitute.org Follow us on Gaining Perspective through Yoga 9 EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, Yoga is a way of life that empowers us to know our self better. Yoga has all the answers to the most profound and popular question - Who am I? Most of us live a life without even giving a second thought to this question. But yoga can help us get closer to the essence of who we truly are and to awareness of what is our duty. A true yoga sadhaka strives to travel inward to transform himself into the best version of self. In this issue, Smt Hansaji says, once we know ourselves better, we can have a better relationship with our self and with the outside world too. And Dr Jayadeva’s wisdom enlightens us about our simple and divine qualities. Our Honourable Governor Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari congratulates and honours The Yoga Institute on completion of 101 years of foundation and 25 years of teaching yoga for free at BMC schools. Also, a renowned cardiologist throws light on how yoga, as a complementing therapy, can help a patient of Ischaemic heart disease through mental relaxation. Let's open our hearts and make our lives better with Yoga! PraneeHYogendra Pranee Hrishi Yogendra 3 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM 4 YOGASATTVA PEARLS OF WISDOM YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR SELF AND OTHERS very person is different, everyone has their own unique the other person. To have a healthy relationship with the self personality. No two individuals are the same, neither and with others, you must keep the Kleshas away while dealing Eexternally nor internally nor eternally. Isn’t that the with others. Just enjoy and live in the moment that you have in reason why we are born alone and we die alone? Everyone has hand. their own story, that is different from others. The way a person is brought up, the sanskaras that they have, their situations, their Always try to see the goodness in every individual, for all you thought process, it all differs from person to person. Even a pair know is just the surface of the personality, you don’t know the of twins don’t have the same life. depth of it. Spend each and every moment with others joyfully and happily. Lend an ear to others but don’t judge their story. It is this uniqueness that makes a person what they are. For Instead, do something nice for them, something that would every individual, all you know about them is their present, what make them happy from the inside. they are today. It is because of their past experiences and situations that result in their present. A little girl who has had a Just follow this basic discipline in life. First, have a better strict mother would have a different personality than a girl of the relationship with yourself, only then will you have a better same age, but with a bed-ridden mother. It is only our habits, relationship with the outside world. The more you value the traits, circumstances, and thought processes that make us uniqueness of others, the more your relationships will ourish. unique and special and we must accept it gracefully. Always remember, your other relationships only mirror the It is only when we have truly understood and realised this relationship you have with yourself. uniqueness in ourselves that we will be able to understand others in a better manner. The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. So whenever you have to deal with others, you must keep this in mind. In this way, you won’t expect others to behave in a certain manner that suits you. That is just because no two people are the same and now you know that they have their own personality, which is different from yours. Once you establish a good relationship with yourself, you will stop expecting things from others. All you can do is enjoy the Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra present moment with them, no expectations, no demands. Try Director, The Yoga Institute. not to have any opinions, don’t get attached, leave no room for dualities, and keep the ego away by not imposing your ideas on 5 YOGASATTVA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY RELATIONSHIPS Being part of a Yoga lineage that practises Householders’ Yoga, One can ask how this approach is valid for a parent who has to relationships can become an integral tool for self-growth. The teach the child ‘the correct way’? As Dr J. would put it, if need be, inclusion of Yoga as a way of life can transform an ordinary life to you show the anger, but don’t become the anger! an art of living extra-ordinarily, especially if one professes to ‘doing’ Yoga. Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and If one’s goal in life is self-development, then how about taking it for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within into the realm of family, work, friends, etc.? How about everybody's power and is not easy, as Aristotle said. accepting each conict as a challenge to clarify one’s own stand? Let’s take, for example, an argument between spouses, To enjoy love, care, compassion, appreciation, praise, fun, which can be the trickiest and stickiest of them all. If your spouse laughter and joy that relationships can offer whenever they points out/criticises/blames you for something, ordinarily one come our way and without craving for the same; to be able to would spring to one’s own defence. Yet, if one’s stand is see through the impermanence of all relationships, in that lies self–development, then, can one see one’s ego rising to its own the practise and gift of Yoga! defence? Can one see also the other kleshas of Raga (attachment) and Dvesha (aversion) also rearing their ugly faces? Therein lies the litmus test of being ‘in the moment’ or, still better, being a witness - Saakshi bhava. This situation in fact shows us the mirror of how we are and how much we can accept the merit of our spouse’s observation. We have then in fact become able to diffuse a potentially volatile situation. Few words of Dr. Jayadeva that I have heard him repeatedly utter - ‘the Ego’, ‘acceptance’ and ‘having a witness-like attitude’ - have stayed in the deep recesses of my mind and have played themselves out often (but certainly not as often as I would have Vandana Trivedi liked to) in various situations of my life. 6 YOGASATTVA YOGA MD Medical Questions and Answers Question: Can Yogic practices and Yogic life help in case of a patient suffering from Angina Pectoris? Question: Can a patent suffering from Ischaemic heart disease get well through Yoga? Answer: As Angina pectoris is a type of Ischaemic heart disease, the following answer applies to both the questions. Ischaemic heart disease is caused by rstly, a narrowing of the lumen of the coronary artery following a deposition of fat in the wall; secondly, a spasm of the coronary artery; and thirdly, clotting of blood, which may occur after a heart attack in many patients. Yoga can help a patient of Ischaemic heart disease by preventing coronary artery spasm through mental relaxation; it can help as shown by the very latest research, by reducing cholesterol in the blood to around 200 mg, by causing regression of arteriosclerosis in the coronary arterial wall. There is now ample evidence proving beyond doubt that the regression of arteriosclerosis in the coronary artery occurs in six to twelve months if the cholesterol level is brought down to 200 mg or less.