Yoga is associated with the East, with India and its cultural identities of race, ritual and religion. Its ancient Vedic roots are often misperceived as mere Hinduism, while its deeper message is a universal truth. Yoga’s non-duality philosophy, a science of Universal Life Force and intelligent creation, is a fascinating quantum metaphysics, where the universe, and everything in it, is interconnected. Such yoga asks us to understand life from beyond the limitation of the popular image of yoga, orthodox science, religious beliefs systems.

The concept of East and West and its embedded realities are but one example of the multiple duality fragments and aspects of non-duality truth. In Yoga, creation and Creator is “All That Is”, a living system of consciousness. The differences become apparent in the kind of yoga where the human bodymind is the device and temple of the practices of conscious awareness, which includes the yin-yang of duality, also on a Creator-Creation level.

Shiva, the Hindu God, may then be an aspect of “God”, more importantly a masculine aspect balanced by Shakti, a nurturing feminine power. Such a Shiva-Shakti is symbolic and functional beyond religion, with Shiva the destroyer of ignorance, and regenerator of the understanding that holism overcomes the illusions of duality. Shakti is the creative energy or Spirit that births and forms Creation.

Knowledge and understanding of the creative dualities that work in pairs – as example the masculine-feminine aspects are represented as the Ida and Pingala of the yogic Sushumna Nadi, the central channel of Life Force Prana, the spine, in the bodymind.

Knowledge, and understanding of the wisdom of non-duality helps the seeker of bliss to penetrate beyond the layers of superficiality illusions. The adept yogi practice on both levels, a duality within a non-duality. Applied to meditation practice the adept finds quickened wisdom of consciousness.

This throws much light on the practice of Yoga as Union, a holistic duality. This whole, with its ebb and flow tides of balance of dualities, is beautifully illustrated by the yin-yang representation of nature and existence.

This yoga of understanding asks us to learn from life itself, beyond religion, ritual, and intellectual knowledge. We study and we do yoga, using logic, experience and enquiry. To connect with the non-dual bliss of the whole, the spark of Divinity, we have to go within, reach out for Divine guidance, and surrender to it.

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Johann
Muizenberg Beach
Cape Town
16 June 2018

Johann, in the blessings of yoga OM Shanti, Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, 22 May 2018.

Yoga is an organic technology of tremendous capacity to tune human beings to highly evolved levels of consciousness. The chakra system is part of a magnificent physical-energetic structure that enables the bodymind to interact with immediate and distant energy fields. The chakra interface is 100% nature intelligence because the bodymind itself is the device. No manmade technology is required. In yoga only the breath, body and mind itself is used to balance and stimulate the medical and esoteric functions of the endocrine system. Each chakra corresponds to a gland that regulates the body chemistry and nervous system. Together these systems influence the state of mind as much as the state of mind influences them, and how we are as human beings. This is why the chakras are a bridge interface between All That Is and the flesh and bone reality. An energetic gateway to the stars, within and without. #yogastudio #yoga #capetown #chakra #meditation #endocrine #spirit #arniston

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