Yoga and Total Health – May 2017

(^10) YOGA AND TOTAL HEALTH • May 2017
Talk by Smt. Hansaji J. Yogendra
When we
talk about
experience, joy
is an experience.
The experience
comes only
when a person
goes a little
deeper and does not function at the
superficial level. He does not react to the
situation but experiences it. Take the
example of a simple physical experience.
The summer heat has started. You
return home from outside and you feel
very hot. So immediately you switch on
the fan. But instead, if you experience
the heat you will realize that heat can
be very pleasant. For this you have
to watch yourself sitting peacefully,
watch the perspiration, then feel the
coolness coming into your system and
over your skin. You experience that
relaxedness, that peace, in this so called
uncomfortable situation.
Experience will come when you
keep on making a continuous effort.
Concentration, i.e. focusing the mind
on one thing is our duty, but a person
does not reach that experience level.
It is only action and reaction. We very
comfortably say that getting angry is
bad, but we never stop reacting. If you
experience what is happening to you
when you get angry - how uneasy you
feel, negative changes in the body etc.,
then you can understand the position
of the opposite person as well.
Theoretically nobody can change. Only
through experience a person can change,
and experience should not remain only
at the intellectual level. You have to go
deeper into that state of experience.
Have patience, stop reacting, start
observing peacefully, then you will be
able to relate with the experience. Only
true experience will make the difference
in your life.
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Experience