It is commonly said
that Yoga is not a religion. But since religion is derived from the Latin word
religere, which means “to bind back,” and yoga means “joining,” practically
speaking yoga is the only religion. The
many systems of dogmas and doctrines are by their very nature not really
religions at all, and in most instances are systems of superstition–either by
the nature of their ideas or practices or by the attitudes of their adherents
toward their beliefs and disciplines. Only when Yoga and Self-realization are
the matrix around which a philosophy has been formulated for their furtherance
is it worthy of our consideration. Authentic yoga brings about everything
spontaneously from deep within, from the Self.
In contrast to other
philosophical systems, Yoga is a philosophy which stimulates its investigators
to engage in yoga as a practice through which they will experience and
demonstrate its truth and worth. What begins as theory develops into practice
which culminates in realization. Yoga is philosophy,
discipline, and experience–a revelation of consciousness. In the Bhagavad
Gita, Krishna the teacher tells Arjuna the student: “There was never a time
when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future
in which we shall cease to be”
Originally we were points of conscious light in the infinite ocean of Conscious Light that is God. We were gods within God. And so we still are, for it is not possible to be outside of Infinity. Yet we are also here in this ever-changing world–a place that
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