What is Yoga?

What is yoga? Let us throw some light on this the word yoga comes from the sanskrit word yug the meaning of yug is different accordingly different scriptures define yoga in different ways let us understand in three different ways the sanskrit grammar in panini in the 6th century said that yoga is yug which means union so one meaning is union another meaning is yoga samadhi so one meaning is samadhi which means concentration and one meaning of yoga is control.

So there are three meanings basic meanings of it so one is union one is concentration and one is control friends all three are required when we say union it means union of individual self with a universal self or the individual consciousness with a supreme consciousness that is one meaning now before that it is very important first to unite with people around we may talk about I merging into the supreme consciousness but if you are not working at the ground level if you are not talking about the union of I and the others then that connection is far away beyond.

So it is very important to connect at the ground level it may be me I and my wife maybe my kids maybe my colleagues maybe people of different colours of different caste unite be in union with them also one meaning of union is union of the body union of the breadth and also union of the mind these three triangle union body union breath union mind actually when it comes together automatically it leads to concentration concentration is required to reach to the goal of yoga which is the spirit everyone has this potential to its highest lot of time we are not aware of it and even though when we are aware of it we don't work towards it so it is very important to concentrate to bring the attention to whatever that we do it may be a simple task of just walking.

Can we walk in a concentrative way it maybe a simple task of cutting vegetables can we cut the vegetables in a concentrative way means can I be there in what I am doing can I be present automatically when we do this the third meaning which is control we can start gaining control on ourselves on our body when we perform posters and also on our mind when we become more aware of how concentrated we are how united we are so this three important meanings are there of yug the word sanskrit word yug union, concentration and control whenever we bring control on our self friends things will be different because we will be controlling our mind most of the time the mind controls us so is it possible we can control our mind we can control our actions we can control our speech when this is done you become one with yourself and when you become one with yourself you also become one