Yoga to me is all about connectivity and experiences. It is more of awareness and acceptance. Yoga is a way of life (Mindful Introspection)

1. On International Yoga day
Different people perceive different meaning to the word YOGA.
Some perceive Yoga to physical transformation of the Body while others
connect Yoga to emotional well being state of mind and so on. Spiritual leaders
have different version and interpretation to the word Yoga.
Yoga to me is all about connectivity and experiences. It is more of awareness
and acceptance. Yoga is a way of life (Mindful Introspection)
We have focused our energies and efforts in fixing all the possible things and
are at the verge of extinction if further try to fix them any further. We strongly
feel that the source of our happiness and joy depends on external sources and
so we keep fixing things and have reached to a level that any further
adjustment could possibly be the cause of extinction.
We have tuned our surroundings to the extent that we are facing climatic
problems that we have never heard of and are facing natural disaster the
magnitude of which could never imagined.
We have become more complacent and have developed the attitude of
complaining. We often talk about lack of resources and governance. We talk
about social problems and so many things that are all external but never
realized and try to address the core of the problem which is inside all of us.
Yoga is about looking at that inner core and establishing connection with it.
Sounds very philosophical, allow me to explain in simple terms, we human
beings are manifestation of 4 faculties - Body/Mind/Emotions/Energy. We can
only perform a task to the best of our abilities when all the 4 faculties when all
4 are synced well.
Yoga is about Inner awakening and conditioning irrespective of external
surroundings.
Allow me to explain say office working hours are from 10 to 5 pm. and that
means during this period you need to perform tasks and duties for which your
services are being hired and are paid.

2. I now ask you to answer this question – WHY YOU WORK WHERE YOU WORK?
Take a while think and you can possibly answer this question if all the 4
faculties of yours are in sync i.e. your body, mind, emotions and energies. In
business world people refer to this as work engagement.
Yoga allows us to introspect and connect with inner consciousness and that
helps in syncing all our 4 faculties leading to blissful and joyous experiences
that can only be felt not described. So if all the 4 faculties (Body, Mind,
Emotion and Energy) of yours are fully involved and engaged in whatever you
do at any given point of time then you are for sure following yogic way of life.
So if you are walking then your body, mind emotions and energy all 4 should
be focused in the activity of walking, easier said than done and it is because of
this reason one very popular yogic practise that everyone talks about is
mediation – focusing on your breath as that is the easiest way to experience
syncing of all the 4 faculties.
We normally believe when we experience and the tool through which we can
experience is our physical body. It doesn’t surprise me that it is for this reason
most of the people think that yoga is a form of physical exercise as it allows to
experience the transformation.
In fact Yoga is beyond that and to me YOGA is about:
1. Inclusiveness and NOT Exclusiveness
2. Self Acceptance i.e. understanding your strengths and weaknesses
3. Integrity - Inner Consciousness of doing the right things
4. Engagement & Commitment
5. Having Inner Faith
6. Loving your own company
7. Being Joyful and Happy
8. Acceptance and NOT Rejection
9. Inside and NOT Outside
10.Inner Peace and Tranquillity
11.Helping and Caring
12.Being Grateful to everything you have , more or less
13.Self Awareness

3. 14.Mindfulness
15.Appreciation and NOT Criticism
We have to connect to ourselves so as to connect with others. We must learn
to spend with ourselves so to be aware of our faculties and use them in
harmony to lead a blissful life