WHY YOGA?
YOGA makes us fit to HEAR OUR AURA CALL.
(...and THIS is a Call you do NOT want to miss)
YOGA makes us fit to HEAR OUR AURA CALL.
(...and THIS is a Call you do NOT want to miss)
Allow me to PROVE IT to you in a deeply personal and relevant way with less than 3000 words. Keep reading...
What is your AURA?
Your AURA is your SPIRIT and that which GLOWS in you. It’s the light in you that glows allowing your spirit to see its way through darkness, so this is a call you certainly want to answer when you get it, but you have to HEAR IT, and in order to hear it you must LISTEN, which doesn’t happen by accident. Listening is intentional, and this is WHY YOGA, because yoga prepares us to LISTEN on purpose (a fact that becomes obvious when you know the actual definition of yoga as it’s given in Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, and I share this toward the bottom of the page.).
What is your AURA?
Your AURA is your SPIRIT and that which GLOWS in you. It’s the light in you that glows allowing your spirit to see its way through darkness, so this is a call you certainly want to answer when you get it, but you have to HEAR IT, and in order to hear it you must LISTEN, which doesn’t happen by accident. Listening is intentional, and this is WHY YOGA, because yoga prepares us to LISTEN on purpose (a fact that becomes obvious when you know the actual definition of yoga as it’s given in Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, and I share this toward the bottom of the page.).
Ok, let’s get into the nitty gritty
It’s important to be clear-eyed and honest about the situation we were/are all born into — the world can be an extremely tricky place to navigate with countless potential pitfalls on every level around every corner. And with this reality in place there are many entities that see mouthwatering opportunities to profit each time someone stumbles and plunges into one of these pitfalls (whether legal woes, financial struggles, health issues, criminal behavior, relationship difficulties, problems with addiction or bad habits, whatever — the name of the pitfall doesn’t matter, it's a payday for someone). As a result, a significant number of these entities or business magnates (with no moral compass) even feel incentivized to increase the likelihood that more people stumble and plunge into the “pitfall” they happen to “specialize” in so that they can “help you out of your problem” for a fee (of course) — and they call it “smart business” (funny enough, I can remember hearing it said back in the day “ouch, that SMARTS” — interesting that the word SMART was associated with “pain”). What motivates "them" is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST for me, and more than likely you too if you want to live your best life.
Now think about this, and be CLEAR-EYED and HONEST…
On a strategic level, playing Devil's advocate, what can be done to an environment, or imposed on it, to increase the chances that more people stumble and plunge into more pitfalls? Many things “could be” done, but one strategy is arguably more effective and far-reaching than all other strategies in a general sense, and that is to make it as dark as possible everywhere — the darker it is, the harder it is to see these (potential) pitfalls, thus increasing the chances that more people stumble into these pitfalls, thereby increasing the (potential) profits for certain businesses and industries that specialize in working with customers (“people”) that have fallen into their pitfall specialty. It's a game we must learn to play to win (and not a video game with extra lives).
On a strategic level, playing Devil's advocate, what can be done to an environment, or imposed on it, to increase the chances that more people stumble and plunge into more pitfalls? Many things “could be” done, but one strategy is arguably more effective and far-reaching than all other strategies in a general sense, and that is to make it as dark as possible everywhere — the darker it is, the harder it is to see these (potential) pitfalls, thus increasing the chances that more people stumble into these pitfalls, thereby increasing the (potential) profits for certain businesses and industries that specialize in working with customers (“people”) that have fallen into their pitfall specialty. It's a game we must learn to play to win (and not a video game with extra lives).
Now is no time to be naïve -- LIGHT is the antidote to darkness. The greater your Light, the less susceptible you are to those who prey in the dark. Do your best to not let this become an emotional matter, because then you become confused (by rage, disdain, passion, or some other overwhelming “feeling” coloring your lens of perception), just see it as it is — some thrive in darkness, while we thrive in Light (like the difference between moths and butterflies). So, while they do what’s best for them, we must do what’s best for us.
And this brings us once again right back to WHY YOGA. Our aim is to intensify our Light and Learn to Listen so that we may HEAR OUR AURA CALL. This is how we overcome and thrive. THIS is why yoga. Our AURA is out Light.
THE QUEST SUTURE BY SUTURE
To SEE exactly how we get from where we are right now, to that place where we can hear our aura call, let’s go on a QUEST (the nature and true purpose of QUESTions) and connect some CURIOUS dots SUTURE by SUTURE with a single needle and thread…
From wherever you are at the present moment, consider and contemplate these...
QUESTION: Where are you right now? Where are any of us at this precise moment?
ANSWER: HERE. The answer is HERE. Wherever you happen to be in this moment, you’d answer this question by saying “I am HERE.” We are all HERE.
QUESTION: Why are we HERE?
ANSWER: We are HERE to HEAR. (These words - HERE and HEAR - are identical when you speak them, they’re equivocal ”same sound.” This answer - we are here to hear - will make more sense with the next question and answer)
QUESTION: How do we know we are HERE to HEAR?
ANSWER: Because HERE is a place we call EARTH. We’ve named this place EARTH (the word EARTH = EAR+TH; -TH is a suffix that “indicates the accomplishment of the notion of the base or root word” – so the word EARTH actually conveys that the notion of the EAR has been accomplished, and since the notion of the EAR is that it’s the organ of HEARing, this means that the word EARTH signifies “the accomplishment of HEARing” – we are HERE on EARTH to HEAR)
QUESTION: Where are you right now? Where are any of us at this precise moment?
ANSWER: HERE. The answer is HERE. Wherever you happen to be in this moment, you’d answer this question by saying “I am HERE.” We are all HERE.
QUESTION: Why are we HERE?
ANSWER: We are HERE to HEAR. (These words - HERE and HEAR - are identical when you speak them, they’re equivocal ”same sound.” This answer - we are here to hear - will make more sense with the next question and answer)
QUESTION: How do we know we are HERE to HEAR?
ANSWER: Because HERE is a place we call EARTH. We’ve named this place EARTH (the word EARTH = EAR+TH; -TH is a suffix that “indicates the accomplishment of the notion of the base or root word” – so the word EARTH actually conveys that the notion of the EAR has been accomplished, and since the notion of the EAR is that it’s the organ of HEARing, this means that the word EARTH signifies “the accomplishment of HEARing” – we are HERE on EARTH to HEAR)
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QUESTION: With what do we HEAR?
ANSWER: We HEAR with our EARs. (the EAR is the “organ of HEARing”) QUESTION: How many EARs do we have? ANSWER: We actually have three EARs. Hardly anyone, if anyone, knows that the HEART is the 3rd Ear, until now. QUESTION: How do we know the HEART is the third EAR? ANSWER: Because another word for EAR is AURICLE, and the only other place in the human body where AURICLEs are located is in the HEART. QUESTION: What other support is there to indicate the HEART is a third EAR? ANSWER: The curious and peculiar connections we see with the word HEART itself (the middle three letters of HEART are EAR, the first four letters are HEAR, and the H in HEART can be moved to the end of the word making it EARTH – we are HERE on EARTH to HEAR with our HEARTs). QUESTION: How do we know the HEART is meant to HEAR? ANSWER: Part of the HEART is named AURICLE, which means EAR, and the EAR is the organ of HEARing. QUESTION: What is the HEART meant to HEAR? ANSWER: The HEART is meant to HEAR “divine messages” from God. |
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QUESTION: How do we know the HEART is meant to HEAR “divine messages” from God?
ANSWER: Part of the HEART is named AURICLE (the left and right auricles of the heart). When you say the word AURICLE out loud, it’s the same as saying ORACLE out loud. These words - AURICLE and ORACLE - are phonetically identical, they are homophones (or equivocal). This is the clue/connection – ORACLE means “divine message” and DIVINE (adj) means “pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God” so a “divine message” (aka an ORACLE) is a “message proceeding from God.” In other words, the AURICLEs of the HEART are where “divine messages from God” are received or heard. We are HERE on EARTH to HEAR our ORACLE or “divine message from God” (did you hear it?).
QUESTION: What must One do to HEAR “divine messages” from God (aka “our ORACLE”)?
ANSWER: One must LISTEN with the HEART (Many miss the nuance making the words HEAR and LISTEN different, but understand this – we can hear without listening, but to listen implies something more)
QUESTION: What is necessary in order for One to LISTEN and HEAR “divine messages” from God?
ANSWER: SILENCE. The answer is that SILENCE is required in order to HEAR God's "divine message(s)" to us. (These words are anagrams of each other, meaning the letters of LISTEN can be rearranged to get SILENT and vice versa – this is a clue shining light on the threaded connection).
QUESTION: How does One get SILENT?
ANSWER: YOGA. The answer is YOGA. Yoga is the original Science of Silence (the real S.O.S.) our ancient ancestors developed many millennia ago, and refined during a previous Golden Age. The same blood that flowed through them, flows through us; we come from them, we are one and the same people (PEOPLE = “peep hole”; offering new perspective on what is meant by “We the People” and why the 1st Amendment of our Constitution is what it is, showing its importance). So yoga, the ancient Science of Silence, is a practice that we developed for ourselves, to ensure we’d always know how to HEAR OUR ORACLE, or how to HEAR OUR AURA CALL. Can you hear it now? There is a liquid light in our blood, this is our SOUL. You’ve heard the caution against “selling your Soul” before, because this is the fluid light that flows in and through you, emanating all about you, allowing you (your Spirit) to move through this world without getting lost in the dark – this luminescent substance in you is your AURA, and you want to HEAR it when it CALLs, so Learn to LISTEN well.
ANSWER: Part of the HEART is named AURICLE (the left and right auricles of the heart). When you say the word AURICLE out loud, it’s the same as saying ORACLE out loud. These words - AURICLE and ORACLE - are phonetically identical, they are homophones (or equivocal). This is the clue/connection – ORACLE means “divine message” and DIVINE (adj) means “pertaining to, of the nature of, or proceeding from God” so a “divine message” (aka an ORACLE) is a “message proceeding from God.” In other words, the AURICLEs of the HEART are where “divine messages from God” are received or heard. We are HERE on EARTH to HEAR our ORACLE or “divine message from God” (did you hear it?).
QUESTION: What must One do to HEAR “divine messages” from God (aka “our ORACLE”)?
ANSWER: One must LISTEN with the HEART (Many miss the nuance making the words HEAR and LISTEN different, but understand this – we can hear without listening, but to listen implies something more)
QUESTION: What is necessary in order for One to LISTEN and HEAR “divine messages” from God?
ANSWER: SILENCE. The answer is that SILENCE is required in order to HEAR God's "divine message(s)" to us. (These words are anagrams of each other, meaning the letters of LISTEN can be rearranged to get SILENT and vice versa – this is a clue shining light on the threaded connection).
QUESTION: How does One get SILENT?
ANSWER: YOGA. The answer is YOGA. Yoga is the original Science of Silence (the real S.O.S.) our ancient ancestors developed many millennia ago, and refined during a previous Golden Age. The same blood that flowed through them, flows through us; we come from them, we are one and the same people (PEOPLE = “peep hole”; offering new perspective on what is meant by “We the People” and why the 1st Amendment of our Constitution is what it is, showing its importance). So yoga, the ancient Science of Silence, is a practice that we developed for ourselves, to ensure we’d always know how to HEAR OUR ORACLE, or how to HEAR OUR AURA CALL. Can you hear it now? There is a liquid light in our blood, this is our SOUL. You’ve heard the caution against “selling your Soul” before, because this is the fluid light that flows in and through you, emanating all about you, allowing you (your Spirit) to move through this world without getting lost in the dark – this luminescent substance in you is your AURA, and you want to HEAR it when it CALLs, so Learn to LISTEN well.
WHAT IS YOGA?
According to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, the precise “definition” is as follows…
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योगः - चित्तव्र्त्तिनिरोध
yogaḥ - cittavṛttinirodhaḥ
योगः - चित्तव्र्त्तिनिरोध
yogaḥ - cittavṛttinirodhaḥ
yogaḥ = union; process of yoking;
citta = mind; consciousness; heart; thought;
vṛtti = activity/activities; movement; rolling, whirling; functions; behavior; mood, attitude;
nirodhaḥ = suppression; repression; complete stilling; restraint; cessation; dormancy/quiescence; confinement (a “shutting up”); enclosure; coercion;
citta = mind; consciousness; heart; thought;
vṛtti = activity/activities; movement; rolling, whirling; functions; behavior; mood, attitude;
nirodhaḥ = suppression; repression; complete stilling; restraint; cessation; dormancy/quiescence; confinement (a “shutting up”); enclosure; coercion;
YOGA = MIND ACTIVITY SUPPRESSION
Just so you know what you are looking at, above you see devanāgarī (देवनागरी), the script used to write the Sanskrit (saṃskṛta), which is an ancient spoken language. Then you see something written with familiar “letters”, sometimes along with special markings (like you see with ḥ and ṛ), resembling the alphabet you already know so that you can pronounce the words correctly (or close to it), although you may not know what the words you’re saying mean – this is called the transliteration. And the transliteration here reads as yogaḥ - cittavṛttinirodhaḥ, where yoga (yogaḥ) is being defined as cittavṛttinirodhaḥ. Then, below the transliteration, you see the translation of each word, word by word. And finally, I share a direct overall translation that reads essentially as, “YOGA IS MIND ACTIVITY SUPPRESSION” (or yoga is the suppression of the mind’s activities). You see, the definition of yoga is straight forward.
YOGA is the SUPPRESSION of the MIND’s ACTIVITIES. What does this definition of yoga have to do with LISTENing or getting SILENT?
Well, to begin our exploration of this question, imagine this: That you and 2 friends are home alone watching a spooky movie late at night, and then you think you hear something in the kitchen, as if someone opened and closed the refrigerator door. What will be your first instinctual response? Probably to mute the TV or pause the show, in an attempt to make it as quiet as possible, and you might even gesture to the other two to shhh or hush. As you imagine this scenario, you can also probably see that everyone is holding STILL as they LISTEN. This paints a picture that many can relate to anecdotally, that when really trying to LISTEN in order to HEAR, there is a state of STILLNESS that comes along with it. Ok…
This idea goes directly to the definition of YOGA, as stated above – YOGA IS MIND ACTIVITY SUPPRESSION. When ACTIVITY is SUPPRESSED, “motion” decreases. And as that activity continues to be suppressed more and more, motion continues to decrease more and more getting closer and closer to a state of MOTIONLESSNESS, until finally there is NO MOTION AT ALL. When there is no motion at all, that is a state of absolute STILLNESS. Ahhh… and there it is, the word STILLNESS flowing from Patañjali‘s definition of yoga.
Now, when you look at the word STILLNESS, the anagram directly connecting it to SILENCE is not as obvious and easy to see as it is when we go from LISTEN to SILENT or from EARTH to HEART, because those anagrams are letter for letter (1 to 1), but the anagram is still there (in STILLNESS). Instead of doubling the LL and SS, let those collapse into a single L and S to get the letters STILNES (instead of STILLNESS). Then you can rearrange the letters of STILNES (letter for letter) to get SILENTS (as if plural SILENT) which is actually phonetically identical with SILENCE. In other words, phonetically speaking, SILENTS = SILENCE when pronounced aloud.
What’s really wild in this instance is that you can confirm this connection (between SILENCE and STILLNESS) by referring to the etymology of the word STILLNESS. When doing so, what do you find?
STILLNESS (n.)
Middle English stilnesse, “silence, state or character of being silent, refusal to speak,” from Old English stilnes “quiet,
silence, peace, release, relaxation;” see still (adj.) + -ness. The meaning “absence of movement, unmovingness” is from early 13c.
Middle English stilnesse, “silence, state or character of being silent, refusal to speak,” from Old English stilnes “quiet,
silence, peace, release, relaxation;” see still (adj.) + -ness. The meaning “absence of movement, unmovingness” is from early 13c.
You find a quality of SILENCE and being SILENT inherent in the meaning of STILLNESS. Not only that, we also find that the Old English spelling of STILLNESS was STILNES… well, well, isn’t that interesting (as if there is a deliberate effort to make the kinds of connections we’re making less obvious, upwards of a thousand years ago after the fact when Old English, aka Anglo-Saxon, was spoken).
No matter how you choose to translate this sūtra, which explicitly defines yoga (as Patañjali saw fit), you are working in the direction of COMPLETE STILLNESS (of the MIND) by continually restraining, repressing, and controlling the Mind’s activities and movements. Metaphorically, the MIND can be thought of as WIND, which isn’t difficult to grasp when you see that M and W are essentially the same symbol, just flipped or rotated in orientation (or they are simply slightly different snapshots of the same thought wave).
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No matter how you choose to translate this sūtra, which explicitly defines yoga (as Patañjali saw fit), you are working in the direction of COMPLETE STILLNESS (of the MIND) by continually restraining, repressing, and controlling the Mind’s activities and movements. Metaphorically, the MIND can be thought of as WIND, which isn’t difficult to grasp when you see that M and W are essentially the same symbol, just flipped or rotated in orientation (or they are simply slightly different snapshots of the same thought wave).
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(KJV) EPHESIANS 4:14
“That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.” |
(KJV) MARK 4:39
“And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” |
ONE LAST THING BEFORE WE WRAP UP (for now)
It wasn’t until after 15 years of studying Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras that I went back and RE-researched the meaning of citta (from Patañjali’s definition of yoga), and to my sweet surprise, I found that another interpretation of citta is HEART, like a nod from heaven signaling to me that we’re on the right track, and that YOGA is indeed a science of silence designed, refined, and developed to prepare us to HEAR OUR ORACLE (aka “aura call”). We live in a magical realm, y’all… join us and tap back into your magic!
It wasn’t until after 15 years of studying Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras that I went back and RE-researched the meaning of citta (from Patañjali’s definition of yoga), and to my sweet surprise, I found that another interpretation of citta is HEART, like a nod from heaven signaling to me that we’re on the right track, and that YOGA is indeed a science of silence designed, refined, and developed to prepare us to HEAR OUR ORACLE (aka “aura call”). We live in a magical realm, y’all… join us and tap back into your magic!
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