INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY

 

INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY: 2023

 

International YoGa day 2023

 

International Yoga day, if not for any other reason, it has a relevance in the Indian Socio Political Contest. The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who garnered recognition and respect among the chaste Hindu Population of India, was perhaps; better aware of YoGa than the present Prime Minister who worked for the International recognition of YoGa. Nehru used to send a letter every month to the Chief Ministers of the states.  In one of the letters which Anaya Banerjee has dealt at length, Nehru addressed the relevance of Vedanta Philosophy.  Immediately as Narendra Modi gained his position in getting the UN declaration 21 June as the International day, Congress that ruled India for over 60 years, suddenly felt the jolt. Stories surfaced on the initiative of Nehru in including YoGa as a part of health education. His pictures in YoGa posture rolled out of dust.  

For Nehru, YoGa seemingly was nothing more than exercise. If the quotes found here and there are true, -

“Among my exercises one that pleases me particularly is the Shirshasana, standing on the head with the palms of the hands, fingers interlocked, supporting the back of the head, elbows on the floor, body vertical, upside down. I suppose physically this exercise is very good; I liked it even more for its psychological effects on me. The slightly comic position increased my good humour and made me a little more tolerant of life’s vagaries.”

The “Comic Position” as he narrates cannot be taken so lightly, though another quote renders a better narrative on the insight of Nehru:

“The Yoga system of Patanjali is essentially a method for the discipline of the body and the mind leading up to psychic and spiritual training,”

 

If Nehru intended to get YoGa as a subject of health education in India, how did the Government of India fail to take a single step in over sixty year sixty years of Congress Regime?

Truth is that Nehru and the Congress was caught in the electoral diplomacy of religious appeasement.   YoGa and the Indian knowledge systems under the political consideration became the proprietary and property of the Hindus. Vedas, YoGa Sutras, Tantras, Astrology, Siddha, Ayurveda all became Hindu traditions and ancient knowledge. A conflict was created to prove that these scriptures have no scientific base, and are only for religious purposes.

Political system of India, after the theocentric partition had no strength to declare that these knowledge systems are Indian and every citizen of the country have to know and understand the cardinal testaments and treatises indigenous to India. That is where secularism of the Country would have had a meaning and sense of belonging. Secularism is not about giving preference and special status to religions, but in creating a sense of belonging to the cardinal foundation of what India is. Indianness or Bharatiyata is deep rooted in the inheritance of the country. The freedom through partition of India meant it.

The fear of a conflict and communal divide over enforcing anything of Indian origin in the governmental system could be seen as a reason to exclude the Indian systems out of the government.  However it completed the destruction of the scientific base and values of Indian Systems that began with the conquests from the west, beginning with the Macedonians and ended with the British. However, Germans are said to have safeguarded some valuable scriptures, which they took out of the Indian Subcontinent.

The system of YoGa, is not limited to the YoGasanas, including the Comic Position of Nehru.  YoGa is set into motion by creating and expanding the human faculties and by creating an independent system of biological timing of one’s own.  Two basic theories are Criticality of Limitation and Self-supporting –Self Sustaining control mechanisms that are precisely a YoGi. The chronological impacts and impairments of time do not affect a Yogi, so does the weather and the changing seasons.

The system of faculty development of a YoGi is set into motion with the development of the Biogenic Energy field. This leads to the development of the probe system, which is an extra cranial function. The biogenic energy system is modulated into an Emitter and Collector or Vikshepa and Akshepa mechanism. The signals received do not have a language and are transcribed and translated into one’s own language. The system used in all such information is called Dhwani, a complex Sound laid along a time scale.  

If at all YoGa is to be a part of the health Sciences, as a subject for MBBS or BAMS,   should it be for the health of the doctors? Or to prescribe some Aasanaas for patients in certain cases? Or is it for cultivating certain Indian Values?

If a systematic approach is made in incorporating the system of YoGa, the answer would be a big “No” for all the questions.

The basic purpose and objective of YoGic System as a curriculum would be to develop the probe system. It would enable the Doctors to see the whole energy spectrum of the patient and can have a preliminary diagnosis. This is what the Dashan or Darshanam. Here in conversation is to confirm the symptoms.  If further required would be Sparshan or Sparshanam. The touch of the neuromuscular Plexus or Naadi. The touch enables us to get into the history of the patient and more on the genesis of the pathologic condition. Depending on the state of evolved faculties, the doctor can see the probable developments that can happen for 4 to 6 months or more. If all these processes of diagnosis are not satisfactory, he can go for tests or Pareeksha.

Darshanam, Sparshanam, Bhashanam and Pareeksha are the four stage diagnoses of a practitioner of healing. A YoGi is a Siddhi on its own.  It would be like an internship of practicing the YoGic system to develop Siddhis, and to be an efficient practitioner.  A doctor would have to sit against facing the sun and as the patient walks in, the spectrum becomes visible. There is a marked difference between the Biogenic Energy Field Vision of   the YoGic Siddha and kirlian photograph or polygraph, and the Aura.  Colour pattern identification and opaque zones, and the thoughts of the patient all become clear in the YoGic Vision. The time of a thought and the crystallization into a language and whether any deviation between the thought and expression can all be understood by the YoGic Siddha.

It needs the entire YoGa Sutra to be decoded and translated into proper disciplines along with the therapeutic formulations.  If the Government and the influential intellectuals who are advisory to the government consider it as philosophy and the Aasanaas alone would be the ultimate, nothing can change.

Delinking the Indian Systems from the Brahminical and Religious domains and to work out the scientific base and derivations from the YoGa Sutra and Vedas, needs a strong will and determination of the Political leadership. Sruti as they are have their own formation and codes.  The resonance based application that is set into a dynamics begins with Gayatri, which can control the environment.

May India arise and awaken into a realm of new Vision and Dimension.