Yoga Results
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 4 years before Jun 20, 2018
MiBeloved 4 years ago
Yoga pays off even if you are following the wrong method but this is provided that you are consistent and loyal to whatever practice that suits your fancy. It may be that one follows the incorrect method or the correct method in the wrong way with the wrong motivation but even then if you are consistent you will reach an impasse where you will say to yourself that it is not working because of this or that defect or incorrect method.
If you are sincere sooner or later a proficient teacher will come and show you what you do which is an incorrect method. Then because you are serious about it, you will adjust yourself without complaint and apply yourself in earnest to make advancement. But then again it will happen that you make a mistake and then again you will do that for some time, and then again a proficient teacher will advise you. This will go on for a time, until you reach a stage where you are dead on course and nothing can stop your progress.
There is a lesson to learn from wealthy people who are obsessed with finances day and night without let-up. These people are always thinking of how they can amass more and more money, endlessly. Even if they make millions of dollars and get into a leverage position, still they are never satisfied with that. After the first million, they act as if that million is a dime. They create more business methods to milk more unfortunate human beings, so that the million will become a billion as quickly as possible.
Why is this?
The lesson is that one should keep on with the objective of yoga no matter what, no matter the failure, the wrong methods, the incompetent gurus, whatever, the aches, the pains, the restrictions involved. Just keep on with the practice come what may, just like the money-hungry persons do in their quest for more finances.
Bhagiratha 4 years ago
Thank you!
Your words are very encouraging.
As I have told you before, maintaining a daily steady practice has been a difficult accomplishment for me.
In spite of that, I try to strive even though I haven't noticed any improvement within my psyche that what I'm doing is worth the effort.
But I just have to remember to "just do my duty" and have a little faith that at some point there will be a breakthrough and as you put it "until you reach a stage where you are dead on course and nothing can stop your progress."
I remain dedicated somewhere within my psyche that this is the only way out of this miserable place, and I should never ever give up the practice even if it means not ever reaching that breaking-point of an absolute realization.
Marcia Beloved 4 years ago
Thank you, Bhagiratha, for explaining well the attitude that one must have even when results of the practice do not noticeably manifest.
We only have the right to perform and do not have the right to claim results.
It is easy to share and comment when things are going well but kriya practice is not always easy and often involves inner and outer challenges that we tend to keep to ourselves as we try to work it out.
I encourage you to keep striving for a steady, daily practice. Every practice session develops from the previous ones. It does not go to waste.
Keep on!
Bhagiratha 4 years ago
Thank you mother for your caring and kind thoughts.
Bharat 4 years ago
If one is in a muck and want to get out to the green grass which is not too far.... few things happen....
1) One sees the Goal or at least knows that not too far there is a place I want to be.
2) Even though one knows the final destination, he/she is so involved in getting out of that muck, or worst yet, starts enjoying the place where he/she is, that one conveniently forgets the true meaning of the Goal.
3) Many wealthy people when not wealthy, wanted to be Rich to "Enjoy" life, have a "Complete Fulfillment" by being rich. And on the way of becoming rich, they sacrificed that enjoyment, that fulfillment, and so when they became wealthy, most of them felt that there is still a major lack in truly becoming wealthy, and so they still continuously keep on looking for that... like a fish in an ocean, desperately searching for water.
4) It is not easy, but if one being in this mucky life, grabbed by the clutches of maya, while continuously detaches oneself with the activities going on, and/or not let situations effect oneself ( again it is hard, but most of us aspiring for liberation or some higher goal can share our experience of how at some time or the other, even in tough situations of life, we sometimes were calm, and continuously doing our practice... ) somehow or the other continue with whatever practice we have... just like Prabhuji and Shri Bhagirathaji said, "until you reach a stage where you are dead on course and nothing can stop your progress."
Once you get to that portion of your life, the whole Game changes......
Bhagiratha 4 years ago
The fish is already in the ocean, why would it be desperately searching for water?
