This article starts by explaining the innate urge for integrating our personality, minding the mind because the present day world has become more obsessed with the external and materialistic aspects of life.

Next it explains the concept of Yoga and how it can help us in our day to day life. The best part of the Yogic way is that its teachings are universal. The aim is harmony within the individual when the body, mind, and soul are integrated.

While Semitic religions view the human being as a fallen angel, who has to get back to heaven by being true to God, the Oriental religions have held that the human can raise itself to the divine by controlling nature, external and internal.

Yoga can be defined as the method that leads to channelling the human faculties to higher purposes and thereby achieving a state of calm and rest that is associated with meditativeness.

Language is simple and easy to understand.

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Author is Adhyaksha, Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru.

This article was first published in the January 2019 issue (titled ‘Thoughts on Yoga’) of Prabuddha Bharata, monthly journal of The Ramakrishna Order started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896. This article is courtesy and copyright Prabuddha Bharata. I have been reading the Prabuddha Bharata for years and found it enlightening. Cost is Rs 180/ for one year, Rs 475/ for three years, Rs 2100/ for twenty years. To subscribe https://shop.advaitaashrama.org/subscribe/