Have you heard of “Yogism”?
Have you heard of “Yogism”?
Years ago in India, a group of seekers called themselves the authorities on “Yogism”. It is troubling to wonder what they mean by that.
Yoga is fast becoming a fashion and it will soon be regarded as a status symbol, a qualification for obtaining a job or getting married. People have always aspired to dominate over others. Some people with the “know-how” of yoga will soon “capture” the field, create a cult, put a hedge of rules around it – and now an “ism” is born.
Already, the simplicity and the meaning of the technique of yoga are forgotten. When the “ism” is born, the spirit of yoga would have evaporated, leaving the empty bottle of rituals and formalities, organisations and headaches.
Yet one can not do without rituals and formalities, organisations and, if you please, headaches too! They are life’s vehicles and vexations. Wisdon lies in using the positive and if not eliminating at least the negative aspects of the necessary evils.
Yoga is a technique for self-realisation and God-realisation. Words do not matter in the very least if you get the idea right! Keep the spirit of yoga. Use the form. But where “the letter killeth the spirit”, be bold enough to revive or resurrect the spirit.
By Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger
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