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Atma Yoga - Alternative for Sleeping Tablet
Arjuna asked only for the stress relief. Krishna should have
ended Gita by the
second chapter after teaching Atma Yoga as the present Guru does
by conducting a
workshop teaching Yoga from Yama to Pratyahara. The four steps
(Yama,
Niyama, Asana and Pranayama) relate to the physical health.
Pratyahara is related
to mental health through psychological treatment. Thus, Atma
Yoga is only the
medical science and there is no spiritual knowledge in this.
There is no reference to
God here. The result of this is only stress-relief during work.
This does not assureyou about the fate of result. If you get
defeat, you will again get stress. Then again
apply Atma Yoga and relive yourself from the stress. Therefore,
Atma Yoga is an
alternative for the sleeping tablets. The sleeping tablet has
side effects on the body,
where as Atma Yoga has no such side effects. Therefore, you can
prefer Atma
Yoga than the medicines. All this is the field of Pravrutti. The
Lord did not stop at
this point because the Lord is not only a Guru but He is also a
Satguru. The
situation is similar to a college lecturer teaching a class in
the school. He can
continue the class in the college level also after the school.
But a school teachercannot continue in the higher level. Therefore,
the Lord continued to preach about
God and human incarnation of God. Then the Lord asked Arjuna to
become His
devotee and servant directly. As the Bhakti Yoga started, the
field of Nivrutti has
begun. Arjuna is changing gradually and became the devotee and
servant of the
Lord in the latter chapters of Gita. Arjuna realized that the
war is the work of the
Lord and not mere path to earn his wealth. Since, Arjuna is
converted in to a
devotee (Theoretical) and also servant (Practical), the Lord
assured success stating
that He is going to kill all the Kauravas and give wealth and
fame to Arjuna. Here
since Arjuna recognized the super self or God and subsequently
recognized
Krishna as the human incarnation, such assurance of success was
given. Such
assurance was not given in the second chapter of Gita where Atma
Yoga was
taught. In that field He was asking Arjuna to do the duty
without attachment and
advised Arjuna to continue in the same detachment even if the
result goes against.
This Atma Yoga is thus applicable even to atheist and is
Universal. But the
Nivrutti is confined to the believers in God only. The advantage
of catching
Satguru at any level is that He can be the teacher from LKG to
PG and therefore
you need not worry about the search for a teacher to your
corresponding level. The
personal work of Arjuna to achieve his personal wealth is
transformed as the work
of God. This means God treats the work of His devotee as His
personal work. You
must know that there is no question of defeat in the personal
work of God! It is not
colouring His personal work as the work of devotee. But it is
colouring the
devotees work as His personal work!
Written by
His Holiness Shri Datta Swami
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