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From chapter one of the book:Lord Ka, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, speaks about the topmost system of yoga in the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gt. There He has explained the haha-yoga system. Please remember that we are preaching this Ka consciousness movement on the authority of Bhagavad-gt. It is nothing manufactured. The bhakti-yoga system is authorized, and if you want to know about God, then you have to adopt this bhakti-yoga system because in the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gt it is concluded that the topmost yog is he who is always thinking of Ka within himself.Ka, the supreme authority, recommended the eightfold yoga system. The first step of this yoga system is to select a very secluded and sacred place. Eightfold meditation cannot be performed in a fashionable city. It is not possible. In India, therefore, those who are very serious about practicing yoga go to Hardwar, a very secluded place in the Himalayas, where they remain alone and follow a very restrictive process for eating and sleeping. There is no question of mating. Those rules and regulations must be followed very strictly. Simply to make a show of gymnastics is not perfection of yoga. Yoga means control of the senses. If you indulge your senses unrestrictedly but make a show of yoga practice, you will never be successful. You have to select a sacred place; then you have to sit with half-closed eyes and concentrate on the tip of your nose. You cannot change your posture. There are many rules and regulations which cannot possibly be followed at the present.Even 5,000 years ago, when circumstances in the world were different, this yoga system was not practicable. Even such a great personality as Arjuna, who belonged to the royal family and was a great warrior and an intimate friend of Kas, constantly living with Him, after hearing this process of yoga from Ka in a face-to-face discussion, said, My dear Ka, it is not possible to follow. He flatly admitted, For me these rules and regulations and practice for controlling the mind are not possible. We have to think, then: 7500 years ago a personality like Arjuna expressed his inability to practice this eightfold yoga system, so how can we follow it now?
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Ka Consciousness The Topmost Yoga System
TYS 1: The Perfection of Yoga
Chapter One
The Perfection of Yoga
Lord Ka, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, speaks about the topmost system of yoga in the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gt. There He has explained the haha-yoga system. Please remember that we are preaching this Ka consciousness movement on the authority of Bhagavad-gt. It is nothing manufactured. The bhakti-yoga system is authorized, and if you want to know about God, then you have to adopt this bhakti-yoga system because in the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gt it is concluded that the topmost yog is he who is always thinking of Ka within himself.
Ka, the supreme authority, recommended the eightfold yoga system. The first step of this yoga system is to select a very secluded and sacred place. Eightfold meditation cannot be performed in a fashionable city. It is not possible. In India, therefore, those who are very serious about practicing yoga go to Hardwar, a very secluded place in the Himalayas, where they remain alone and follow a very restrictive process for eating and sleeping. There is no question of mating. Those rules and regulations must be followed very strictly. Simply to make a show of gymnastics is not perfection of yoga. Yoga means control of the senses. If you indulge your senses unrestrictedly but make a show of yoga practice, you will never be successful. You have to select a sacred place; then you have to sit with half-closed eyes and concentrate on the tip of your nose. You cannot change your posture. There are many rules and regulations which cannot possibly be followed at the present.
Even 5,000 years ago, when circumstances in the world were different, this yoga system was not practicable. Even such a great personality as Arjuna, who belonged to the royal family and was a great warrior and an intimate friend of Ka's, constantly living with Him, after hearing this process of yoga from Ka in a face-to-face discussion, said, "My dear Ka, it is not possible to follow." He flatly admitted, "For me these rules and regulations and practice for controlling the mind are not possible." We have to think, then: 5,000 years ago a personality like Arjuna expressed his inability to practice this eightfold yoga system, so how can we follow it now?
In this age people are very short-lived. In India the average duration of life is thirty-five years. In your country it may be more than that. But actually, whereas your grandfather lived for 100 years, you cannot. These things are changing. The duration of life will be reduced. There are predictions in the scriptures that in this age, man's duration of life, his mercy and his intelligence are being reduced. Men are not very powerful; their duration of life is very short. We are always disturbed, and we have practically no knowledge about spiritual science.
For example, in the hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught. Actually, we are all spirit soul. From Bhagavad-gt we understand that we are transmigrating from one body to another, even in our present lives. All of us had at one time the body of a small baby. Where is that body? That body is gone. Presently I am an old man, but I remember that I was once a small baby. I still remember when I was about six months old; I was lying down on the lap of my elder sister, who was knitting, and I was playing. I can remember that, so it is possible for everyone to remember that he had a small body. After the baby's body I had a boy's body; then I had a youthful body, and now I am in this body. Where are those bodies? They are gone now. This is a different body. It is explained in Bhagavad-gt that when I give up this body, I will have to accept another body. It is very simple to understand. I have changed so many bodies, not only from childhood to boyhood to youth, but according to medical science we are changing bodies every second, imperceptibly. This Process indicates that the soul is permanent. Although I have changed many bodies, I remember my baby body and my childhood body-I am the same person, soul. Similarly, when ultimately I change this body, I shall have to accept another. This simple formula is stated in Bhagavad-gt. Everyone can reflect on it, and there must be scientific research done in this area.
Recently I received a letter from a doctor in Toronto. He suggested that there is body and there is soul. I corresponded with him. Actually, it is a fact. The soul is there. There is so much evidence, not only in the Vedic literature but even by ordinary experience. The soul is there, and it is transmigrating from one body to another, but unfortunately there is no serious study on this subject in the universities. This is not very good. The Vednta-stra says, "This human form of life is meant for searching out the spirit, the Absolute Truth." The yoga system is used to search out the spiritual principles within this material world. That process for searching is recommended in Bhagavad-gt by Ka Himself. When Arjuna said, "The system You are recommending, the haha-yoga system, is not possible for me," Ka assured him that he was the greatest of all yogs. He pacified him by saying not to bother about being unable to practice haha-yoga. He told him, "Of all different types of yogs-haha-yogs, jna-yogs, dhyna-yogs, bhakta-yogs, karma-yogs- you are the best yog. " Ka says, "Of all yogs, the one who is constantly thinking of Me within himself, meditating upon Me within the heart, is the first-class yog. "
Who can think of Ka always within himself? This is very easy to understand. If you love someone, you can think of him always within you; otherwise it is not possible. If you love someone, then naturally you think of him always. That is described in the Brahma-sahit. One who has developed love of God, Ka, can think of Him constantly. When I speak of Ka you should understand that He is God. Another name for Ka is ymasundara, which means that He is blackish like a cloud but very beautiful. In one verse of Brahma-sahit it is said that a santa, a saintly person, who has developed love for ymasundara, Ka, thinks of the Lord constantly within his heart. Actually, when one comes to the point of samdhi in the yoga system, he thinks, without cessation, of the Viu form of the Lord within the heart. He is absorbed in that thought.
Ka, ymasundara, is the original Viu. That is stated in Bhagavad-gt. Ka includes Brahm, Viu, iva and everyone else. According to Vedic scripture, He expands first as Baladeva, Baladeva expands as Sakaraa, Sakaraa expands as Nryaa, and Nryaa expands as Viu (Mah-Viu, Garbhodakay Viu and Krodakay Viu). These are Vedic statements. We can understand that Ka is the original Viu, ymasundara.
This is the perfect system. Anyone who is thinking of Ka always within himself is a first-class yog. If you want perfection in yoga, don't be satisfied only by practicing codes. You have to go further. Actually, the perfection of yoga is reached when you are in samdhi, always thinking of the Viu form of the Lord within your heart, without being disturbed. Therefore yogs go to a secluded place, and by controlling all the senses and the mind and concentrating everything on the form of Viu, they reach samdhi. That is called perfection of yoga. Actually this yoga system is very, very difficult. It may be possible for some solitary man, but for the general mass of people it is not recommended in the scriptures: harer nma harer nma harer nmaiva kevalam/ kalau nsty eva nsty eva nsty eva gatir anyath [Adi 17.21] . "In this age of Kali one must chant the holy names of the Lord for deliverance. There is no other alternative. There is no other alternative. There is no other alternative." ( Bhan-Nradya Pura )
The yoga system, as it was recommended in the Satya-yuga, the Golden Age, was to always meditate on Viu. In the Tret-yuga one could practice yoga by performing great sacrifices, and in the next age, Dvpara-yuga, one could achieve perfection by temple worship. The present age is called Kali-yuga. Kali-yuga means the age of quarrel and disagreement. No one agrees with anyone else. Everyone has his own theory; everyone has his own philosophy. If I don't agree with you, you fight me. This is the symptom of Kali-yuga. The only method recommended in this age is chanting the holy name. Simply by chanting the holy name of God, one can attain that perfect self-realization which was attained by the yoga system in the Satya-yuga, by performance of great sacrifices in the Tret-yuga, and by large-scale temple worship in the Dvpara-yuga. That perfection can be attained by the simple method of Hari krtana. Hari means the Supreme Personality of Godhead; krtana means to glorify.
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