So the question is if you have to do Yoga or you have to be in Yoga?!
Before I answer this question, just think about the time when you were fallen in love first time. Have you done love or you were in love? Yoga is just like that. A love affair with our creator! Being in love with the supreme, this is being in Yoga.
You will ask what about the yogic postures and kriyas Yogis do, What is that? Well! These are the tools which will help you to reach the state where you can be in Yoga and experience the love for supreme beyond the physical world bound by senses.
But here is a caution, when I am talking about love for creator, do not imagine a person who is just in love and is doing nothing in the physical world. Then what I mean? Come back to our example of being in love. When you are in love you still do everything in the physical world but with extreme joy and pleasure. Even people whom you do not like, their words do not irritate you, even if someone gets angry on you, you simply ignore their anger.
Similarly, when you are in Yoga, you are dripping with love. You still do your job, conduct business or household chores but being in Yoga. You do everything as offering to your lover – the supreme consciousness nothing for yourself or anyone else.
But these talks are just talks until it is experienced at first hand. And to experience the life of bliss you will need tools just like in world when you have to perform some tedious task beyond your inbuilt natural capacity we use gadgets, tools etc. Similarly, to explore the dimension beyond our physical existence we need tools – Tools of Yogic Science.
Out of various exemplary paths of Yoga, we offer Hatha Yoga which uses the body as medium to raise human consciousness. If you are a beginner you may doubt it just like I doubted it few years back. But just like a small kid who do not know why behind learning A B C… if we just learn the tools and practice one day you will understand the significance of twisting and torturing your body. It is based on very deep science, modern science is yet to arrive. However, the good news is that you can still understand it by experience.
All the efforts, time and money invested in Yoga is totally worth because everything in life starts from YOU. When you will be transformed into your real self, handling your outside world is just a cake walk.
So, let’s begin this amazing journey of self- transformation.
With Yoga, not only your body should become flexible. Your Mind and Emotion, and above all your Consciousness should become flexible.
Sadhguru