A Yoga School or Institution
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 6 years before Feb 22, 2017
MiBeloved 6 years ago
During practice this morning Arthur Beverford was suggesting that I begin a formal school for yoga practice. He said this in the presence of his teacher Rishi Singh Gherwal. For his part the Rishi did not say anything but he was thinking of my doing a translation of the book by Swatmarama which is Hatha Yoga Pradipika and also a translation of some of the literature of Mahayogin Gorakshnath.
More or less I am done with translating Sanskrit book but I will do something if one of the teachers instruct that it be done , not otherwise., The reason is that the instruction have to be adjusted because of our current cultural condition. And now we have the acceleration of technology which is imposing a whole different way of looking at life, and which will make the Sanskrit books more and more irrelevant unless the translator can remain loyal to the original idea and also match the meanings into the current culture.
Translating Sanskrit books is not easy, because what usually happens is that writers use these books to endorse their own ideas by hijacking the authority and name of a previous teacher.
To translate loyally is very difficult and even if one can do it, if one is not badly motivated, one has the added responsibility of making it culturally relevant. These are not easy accomplishments. I already struggled with this with the Bhagavad Gita, the Uddhava Gita and the Patanjali Yoga Sutras.
Instead of translating more books, I should now invest my time in practice so that I can advance as far as possible before fate confiscates this body and while practicing I should leave notes of what I am doing so that others in this time, place and culture can get some idea of what they can do with the present condition of the human psyche.
Regarding beginning a school, I am disinclined from doing that but if providence facilitates that and there is no choice I will do it. Personally I am not interested. I have written books and will do a few more if providence permits me more time in this material body but the books which I produced so far have enough information to get anyone on a sure footing for meditation practice.
Arthur Beverford did not establish a school for yoga, and Rishi Singh Gherwal did not establish a school either, even though he wrote books and did give formal classes while he used his last body. Beverford put his energies into establishing a school for martial arts, Japanese style. I was his main student for yoga. He wanted to establish a school but there was not sufficient interest, He found that people were more interested in martial arts and he was hoping to use that as a stepping stone to yoga, especially since that was the idea of the Bodhidharma who first brought Buddhism to China.
If anyone wants to set up a yoga school, I would assist the person as much as I can. That is what I will do.
Right now I am cashed out for time. I have barely sufficient time to get myself in order because fate strikes to take this body, so I am not going to be focusing on setting up any yoga institution.
Fate is quite impartial and does not care one hoot if I run out of time while teaching. It will not give me one second extra time to complete my personal practice merely because I am involved in setting up a yoga school. A friend of mine once said that there is no use in writing all the books if I am not going to train anyone.
Well that is his crazy idea. He is focused down into the material world into social life of human beings, and his attention is trapped there so he has to see things in that way. He does not understand that the guillotine of time will soon chop off his head while he is carelessly staring at the human affairs and has neglected his own self interest.
It is really hypocritically to go on focusing on helping other people when in fact one is afflicted with the very same diseases one sees in others.
