Inner Blissfulness

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Inner Blissfulness

If we think our work is important, the first thing we should do is work upon our own self, so that internally we are a stable being, no matter what the situation is externally. When we are running a large business or enterprise, it's not just about us. Often, there are another thousand people involved with us. So, how we handle a situation not only impacts our life, but another thousand lives. Once we grow, the challenges also naturally grow; there is no question about it. But if we want to get into a jockey's place where we want to handle the horse, if we want to handle a situation, no matter how large, the first thing we must do, is equip yourself. There is a way with which we can create a stable and blissful chemistry within our own selves, our ability to deal with all the variety of ups and downs in life can be greatly enhanced. How? With yoga and meditation.

Yoga-meditation gives us this possibility that if we simply sit here, there is a little space between us and our body, there is a little space between us and our mind, and there is a little space between us and the world. Once we create this space within us, once we know what is the self and what isn't, that is the end of suffering. When there is no fear of suffering, we will be able to look at everything with utmost clarity and address every issue to the best of our intelligence and capability. Situations will never overwhelm us.

When we say yoga-meditation, it does not mean yoga in a studio in Mumbai or LA or on television. Yoga- be meditation must be approached in a comprehensive way. Yoga offers a systematic way of working upon our inner well-being through various yogasanas in which we can address our immediate and ultimate wellbeing. We should take guidance of a yoga master to do those asanas which will help us in our inner journey. It is an entire science and technology. If we invest 30-40 minutes a day, we can ensure that in terms of vitality in our body and mind, we will be at least 10 years younger in the next six months. And our ability to create and manage things will be such that what we can do right now in 8 hours, we will very easily do it in 4-5 hours. If we are sleeping 8 hours a day, very easily we can bring it down to 5-6 hours a day without stressing the body. So, 40 minutes of investment will give us extra time, extra clarity, extra possibility, and extra peace of mind!

In other words, yoga is the technology that lets us read the user's manual of the most sophisticated gadget – the human mechanism. If we know how to handle the human mechanism, then what about external situations? Well, some we can handle, some we cannot. But if we know how to handle ourselves, it is not really a problem. It may be a challenge, but it is not a problem.

There are only situations and more situations in life. Only those who do not know how to handle them label them as a ‘problem.’ With time we become stable in our own inner bliss and float through life as light as a feather.