Q: How do I come into wheel pose? You can improve your flexibility, strength, and self-assurance by practising wheel posture on a regular basis. Very few men, unless of exceptional strength, can keep their balance under that. Even when you sleep, keep the sword of discrimination at the head of your bed, so that covetousness cannot approach you even in dream. A second reason people use memory systems poorly is that, as I noted earlier, even if someone has used memory systems extensively, that doesn't mean they've learned to use them well. Disciple: If you say things like that, then we are undone! If you are not theoretically aware of Hatha yoga and its elements, you are not able to practice it well. Breath is an integral part of a yoga practice. The practice asks the body to observe its surroundings. By improving not only flexibility but also posture, body mechanics, and awareness, yoga can make every form of training you do more effective and efficient. Since becoming a yoga teacher Neil's focus has been on understanding the body so that he can use it more effectively and maximize its potential. It is also important to listen to your body and only go as far as you feel comfortable.

It helps in maintaining the arch in the back and aids in balancing the body. Thus, as per yogic science, Shatkarma is six cleansing actions that help to clean your body and mind. Disciple: Once in a while strength of mind comes. Swamiji: Sannyasins are at least struggling to make themselves ready for renunciation, whereas householders are in this matter like boatmen who work at their oars while the boat lies at anchor. One who has not gained renunciation, Wheel pose in yoga know his efforts to be like unto those of the man who is pulling at the oars all the while that the boat is at anchor. Disciple: But does renunciation of everything come as soon as one becomes a monk? Without renunciation God can never be realised-यदि ब्रह्मा स्वयं वदेत्-even if Brahmâ himself enjoined otherwise! Does not everyone wish to be good-to be perfect -to realise God? I have a wish to go and see him once. Disciple: Yes, so I have heard. Disciple: Where will the householders be, then? He is always mad with joy when he hears about you, and says that East Bengal will be sanctified into a place of pilgrimage by the dust of your feet.

He shines like a brilliant luminary in the spiritual firmament of East Bengal. If anyone wants to be a householder, let him be like Nag Mahashaya. Hang water-filled balloons from a tree and let guests take turns swinging to release a refreshing splash. It is owing to the presence of this desire for bliss in the heart, that man, getting hard shocks one after another, turns his eye inwards-to his own Self. Disciple: Everyone longs to be good, yet the mind for some inscrutable reasons, turns to evil! The mind becomes tarnished by constant contact with the objects of the senses and receives a permanent moulding and impress from them. Swamiji: It is true that the mind can never turn to God until the desire for lust and wealth has gone from it, be the man a householder or a Sannyâsin. They found that by practicing the physical postures of yoga, they could become more peaceful and in turn achieve greater focus. If you are new to yoga, this pose is not for you. Swamiji: But there must be some higher law at work in the sphere alluded to by G. C. of which we are ignorant. Swamiji: What fear? "अभीरभीरभीः-Be fearless, be fearless, be fearless!" You have seen Nâg Mahâshaya how even while living the life of a householder, he is more than a Sannyâsin!

Swamiji: Throw away, I say, texts which teach things like that! Disciple: If it is so, Swamiji, how is it then that the texts on Bhakti say that too much of renunciation kills the feelings that make for tenderness? Ask the people of that part of the country to visit him often; that will do much good to them. If so, what will become of householders? Swamiji: Decidedly so, without a shadow of doubt! Swamiji: Yes, it is so, no doubt, through His mercy, but one needs to be pure first before one can receive this mercy-pure in thought, word, and deed; then it is that His grace descends on one. Disciple: But of what necessity is grace to him who can control himself in thought, word, and deed? Disciple: It all depends upon the blessings of the Guru and the grace of the Lord! Swamiji: The wind of grace of the Lord is blowing on, for ever and ever.