The Highest Yoga

The Highest Yoga

As you must know by now, life is a spiritual journey of awakening; recognizing the infinite nature of divine presence. And we are like a prodigal child, lost in the dream of our forgetfulness. Conditioned; now seemingly imprisoned by our doubts, wounded by our fears, sickened by our selfishness, we have accumulated a heavy burden of debt. Habituated we become like vampire junkies unwilling or unable to truly love one another and thus serve our own best interest. This is the sad state of affairs we fall into while following a mindless way like hunger ghost; ever aching from hunger, yet unable to find any satisfaction in empty pseudo fulfillments.

This is why yoga is so important for us. It is a key which opens the heavy doors of our forgetfulness. Yoga is not some foreign exercise in self aggrandizement. Yoga simple means awakening to our inherent oneness, yoga is our reunion in eternal presence. This is what it means. If the ego enters there it must offer itself up as sacrifice, for there, in the truth from which we spring, there is no room for some “other”. Our separateness is our exile from the One we truly are. Separateness is the dream of forgetfulness; it is our wounding, and our endless hunger. We’re always seeking some other, a longing never satisfied; for it is our error. You are not some other; God is not some other; for if you are, then we are forever apart and never fulfilled, then neither can there be a perfect God, when two are forever partial, never fully whole.

Following this line of thinking we may come to see that true love is the ultimate yoga. True Divine Love is our reunion, our awakening in wholeness. Many say that “Bhakti” meaning devotion, is love for the other; the Love for God and of God. This explains the eternal dance we see; Spirit & Nature ever dancing together. Still this “maya” - dance of time & space is but a dream, forgetful of the one which is whole yet infinite. Though ineffable, there is the One beyond; the union of infinite wisdom and bliss. This is our true nature and knowing this we awaken in love, true beyond any other. You and I and every “other” fully endowed with gifts beyond measure. Knowing this there is no need; only fulfillment in oneness shared with all. We can and must see this both within us and all around us. Then we awaken. This is the highest yoga I have found.

Here’s the heart of the matter. All our thoughts feelings and actions arise from our perception of what we see before us. We are always responding in relationship to what we accept as true and real. When we believe in our separateness it seems fear and conflict will rule our vision. If we believe in wholeness it must be reflected as compassion and caring in all relations; because in wholeness our relation is with our very own self image. Only when we know and trust ourselves can we embrace each as our very own.