Our Possibilities are Endless!
3rd Aug 2021 | Author - Viraj Malik
There has always been a debate on free will and fate. Whether a person made it possible with their own potential and choices or it was meant to be as it was pre-planned by their destiny. The Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline of “Yoga” firmly promotes the idea of humans having limitless possibilities and power and by practicing yoga one can liberate themselves from their usual limitations of energy and capabilities and achieve the actual goal of life.
Each of us is born with unique competencies and capacity, however the possibilities we possess are endless and we have a tremendous ability to shape our destiny as per the choices we make and action we take in our life. Although we are all made of the same energy, we do not function to the same extent of our abilities. Yoga can help us channelise our energies and to find the ultimate expression of Life.
As we live life we create a pattern of liking, disliking, beliefs and a laundry list of goals and desires. These go deep into our mind and create different patterns within our mind. A number of spiritual philosophers intuitively believe in continuity of mind and believe that there is a transition of mind patterns from one life to another .
We inherit some of these patterns at birth, and some we create over the course of our lives. A karmic pattern can be a strength or a weakness, If a person just lives the karmic patterns of mind, there is very little control of the person on his life or life around
As yogis, we need to develop awareness of our patterns. We can do this through meditation and self-study (the niyama of Patanjali called swadhyaya).
Once we identify our patterns, we apply yogic techniques that allow us to act on our patterns ?to respond to them, changing those that we can and accepting those we cannot.
Acceptance of weakness is a great strength. It is an outcome of authentic meditation, arising from the cultivation of self-knowledge and self-love.Meditation also gives us a calmer, less emotionally reactive mind and nervous system, so that we can respond with more peace and wisdom and with less fear, anger, or attachment.
Though our potential and possibilities are endless realising our true potential requires a great deal of self-effort, trial and error, and learning from experience and introspection. At UtsavYoga our objective is to use Yoga and meditation as a tool for everyone to realise our true potential and uncover the bliss which all of us are born with and which is buried down the layers of conditioning and false knowledge.
