Fundamentals of Yoga:-
leads one to God-realisation or to union with God. It leads Yone to the attainmend of lasting peace and bliss. Such a Yoga is based on deep love for God.
Love is a great cementing force. Love easily brings about concentration. One’s mind is very much occupied with the remem- brance of a person whom one loves. But love is based on, and is known in the form of some relationship as between a mother and a child, a sister and a brother or a friend and a friend. So, if one realises that there is the nearest and dearest relationship between the soul and the Supreme Soul, there would automatically be established the love-link which would lead to concentration of mind on God.
Take an example. A baby recognises only its mother. So, it has fond love only for her. Even if its aunt hugs it to herself, it declines to leave the mother by turning away. But, when it grows up into a child, it moves out into the street, leaving the mother at home, to play with other tiny tots. Evidently, part of his love has now got transferred to his friends and to the games so that when his mother. to whom he was so deeply attached before, calls him back home for the lunch, he asks her to wait. As he grows up into an adult and gets married, his love gets centred more on his wife and, gradually, gets transferred to his children. Thus, everyone knows by personal exp- erience that one’s mind is automatically devoted to, and engaged with, the thoughts of one whom he loves. Also, it is common experience that one’s love easily gets transferred from one to another; one has not to be given any special training for that. So, one should now be able to transfer one’s love easily to God who is the most beloved Mother- Father. This transferrence of love to God is called Easy Raja Yoga.
Furthermore, as a patient’s mind automatically thinks of a doctor or a student’s mind often goes to his dear teacher, even so should our mind rest in God who cures the soul of all the sufferings and ailments in the form of evils and who gives up the most valu- able knowledge. Thus, the knowledge of our all these relationships to God, should awaken our love for Him and enable us to remember Him constantly like a true Yogi.
The trouble with man is that he has love for the money, love for power, love for flesh and love for worldly objects and relations but no deep-founded and real love for God, the Mother-Father and Friend. So, his love has taken the form of greed, selfish motives, sex and attachment. This has created problems for him and forthe world. Love of God, i.e. Yoga, spiritualises and purifies man’s love and changes it into love for all. So, let us now have love-link with God.
