An explanation of what Yoga is

[Javfly33]

Now I know there are several types of yoga and I'm sure there are wacky states of consciousness you can reach with rare or intense types of yoga such as kundalini yoga, but I'm here to give a simple explanation of the traditional most simple ancient yoga, which is Hatha Yoga. I find important to give this explanation because a lot of people here think I talk about psychic phenomena or powers, or etc...when I talk about yoga, and nothing could be more further from the truth. Yoga, or at least the classical ancient Hatha Yoga is about reducing distortion to the maximum so Reality and Pure Clarity and happen. Is the contrary of anything "wacky" or "twisted".

I will explain it doing a simple analogy:

Imagine you are in your garden and you have a water hose. Your kid starts playing with it, and folds it. Suddenly the water is not running successfully and fluidly anymore. Maybe a few drops can still drip at the other end of the hose but most of the water is stucked.

Is only when you put the hose back again in a straight position that the water can keep flowing perfectly and fully. 

Reality, Consciousness, Energy, God, Life, is this water hose.

And what has happened is that the ego, the mind, the egoic configuration that has been built within Consciousness (You), is like this little kid that has folded the water hose.

The water hose folded means experiencing separation, fear (even if is a slight fear, in form of subtle anxiety, tension, or "uneasiness"), the feeling of "I lack something", "something doesn't feel totally right", "there must be more than this, let me go build a billion dollar business to feel completeness, etc..." 

So since Yoguis are quite lazy to go build a billion dollar business, they came up with something else, and much more effective.

A way of aligning the body (and as a consequence the energetic configuration) to be in Perfect Geometry with Reality.

When we do a certain yoga position, commonly knows as "Asana", what happens is that the egoic configuration is being taken to a minimum, because the body is being positioned is such a way that is alined to the way reality Flows, the way energy flows, if your body and your energies are usually configured in such a way that it makes this water hose always folded, when we do an Asana what happens is that the body and the inner energies are placed in such a way that the hose starts being unfolded, to finally be completely straight.

The water hose being completely straight menas that your body is not anymore a barrier to reality, but rather it becomes a receptive conductor for energy/consciousness/Life/Reality/God, when the body and inner energies are completely surrendered, you experience your body as an object that has surrendered itself, and is 'devoted' to Reality, when this happens, Water flows like a tsunami. There is not anymore friction, blockage, stuckness. There is just pure armonic reality existing.

And this is the peak state of Hatha Yoga. Entering and staying in a posture so perfectly aligned and receptive where individuality ends. And you are just another object in Reality. 

Have you ever imagined as a little kid if a Tree or a Flower has a "POV"? Or how inert objects experience life? Well, holding a Hatha Yoga posture in the way I'm talking about, will feel like being completely dead, and at the same time, it will feel like the best feeling in the world. 

Now, as a side note, does this means that all Yoga can be resumed in this? Certainly not. There are other types of yoga practices and even asanas that might have a different purpose or goal. But IME what I have described is the main goal of Yoga. 

Edited November 12, 2023 by Javfly33
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