Everything Is Yoga

Divine Life Society Publication: - Everything Is Yoga by Swami Chidananda

Worshipful homage to that supreme, eternal, universal Being, Lord Krishna, who revealed Himself in and through the Gita wisdom teachings that He imparted for all mankind, for all times, through His beloved devotee and disciple, Arjuna. He not only revealed His divine nature through His Bhagavad Gita teachings, He also revealed how man can realize Him fully, can experience Him, and, ultimately, how man can merge himself in Him to become one with Him. All this He taught within the compass of 700 brief verses contained in 18 chapters.

Main teaching

Attain through Yoga the supreme human experience of our essential non-differentiation from Him; the experience that liberates us forever from all sorrow, all confusion and delusion; the experience that liberates us once and for all from a return to successive birth, death and rebirth in this mortal world.

The four classical yogas are—channelizing our action potential through karma yoga for God-realization, channelizing our sentiment and emotion potential for realizing God through bhakti yoga, channelizing our mind’s power of concentration for attaining God-realization through raja yoga, through meditation, and channelizing our intellectual potential of analysis, logic, discrimination and reasoning to attain illumination through jnana yoga. Here in the Gita we have 18 yogas. Everything is yoga. He covers the whole of human life in His teaching.

Everything is yoga

The central teaching is that, in fact, all life is yoga. Life is to be lived as the great sadhana, the great yoga. All actions constitute yoga. Everything that you think is yoga. Everything that you speak is yoga. Everything that you do is yoga. Life is the supreme yoga, every part of it.

Each and every one of our actions from morning till evening should have a Godward thrust; they are to be engaged in for attaining illumination. Everything in our life is and ought to be enlightenment oriented. Breathing, sitting, standing, running, resting, working, lying, waking, dreaming, sleeping, all constitute that one single process—yoga. So there are not merely 18 yogas. There are innumerable yogas every moment. This is the great truth about you, about each and every one of us.

May the grace of the Supreme and the benedictions of revered and beloved Holy Master Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji enable us to fully recognize this truth, fully assimilate this truth, fully live in the light of this truth, and thus become the Truth. May God bless us all!

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Everything Is Yoga by Swami Chidananda

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