Yoga has now become a business affair like everything else. There are teachers of yoga all over the world, and they are coining money, as usual. Yet yoga, at one time, was only taught to the very, very few. Yoga does not mean merely to keep your body healthy, normal, active and intelligent; yoga also means, in Sanskrit, ‘join together’ – joining the higher and the lower. That is the tradition. There are various forms of yoga, of which the highest is called raja yoga – the king of yogas. That way of living was concerned not merely with physical wellbeing but also, and much more, with the psyche. There was no discipline, no system, nothing to be repeated day after day. It was to have a brain that was in order, that was all the time active, but not chattering: active. It was to have a very deeply ordered moral, ethical and disciplined life, not based on the taking of vows. Thereby, although the body was kept healthy, it was not of primary importance. What was of primary importance was to have a brain, a mind, a state of well-being that was clear and active; not active in the sense of physical movement, but a brain in itself active, alive, full of vitality. But now yoga has become rather shallow, a source of profit, mediocre.

From Meeting Life

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