OUR NEED FOR YOGA
Yoga means unity, harmony, and balance. Yoga practise encompases a wide area of subjects, a number of paths or different types of Yoga exist, all seek to achieve unity and balance through there specific practise. Our need for Yoga is therefore a need for greater unity, harmony, and understanding in the world. This may appear a rather obvious statement, however, we must understand where we have gone wrong to adapt our behaviour for the future if we wish to see improvement.
The first poem is entitled " The Old " and outlines the factors that have lead to the disharmony. The second is called " The Soul " and talks of the return to a higher level of understanding or consciousness. An astute observer in the world today will recognise elements in both " The Old " and " The Soul " that are apparent in everyday life. It is my hope that more people will wake up to the pitfalls of " The Old " as that is one use of suffering and disharmony - it is a prod to rememberance.
" The Old "
Pick up a newspaper and have a good read.
Conlict and negativity nearly all you will see.
Is this the way things are meant to be?
Disharmony prevails in too many lives.
Inner conflicts splill to the outside.
The false dreams of success are sold to us all.
But for someone to win another must fall.
Most live through their ego, the false state of self.
Parading a mask, protecting their wealth.
The ego divides, separates me and you.
Society enhances this view, how untrue.
We are told we’re a body that will die.
So we must chase the goals whilst alive.
We follow the flock, ride with the tide.
Peace and Happiness is sought outside.
Desires arise and may be forfilled.
Pleasure is gained but pain is not killed.
More desires arrive, the ego wants more.
It will never be silenced, you can’t shut the door.
Anger develops for those who can’t have.
Greed increases as power turns mad.
Attatchment stems from what you possess.
Jealousy, and lust are the ego’s behest.
The result on the world of the lies we are told.
That the body is all, this idea has been sold.
But disharmony, conflict, and hatred will end.
When we realise our unity, our soul must ascend.
THE SOUL
Inside us is a point of light.
Sub-atomic, out of physical sight.
Our real identity through time has been covered.
But ignorance ends, truth no longer smothered.
The body is a vehicle, no more than a car.
The soul is rememberance of truth, what we are.
How foolish we’ve been asleep to this fact.
To miss the piece life for too long has lacked.
Our original nature is the eternal soul.
Superconscious bliss is all that it knows.
How far from what we are led to believe.
Is the souls great wonder that all can perceive.
To discover our true Self, we must look inside.
Transcend the ego that pulls us outside.
Withdraw the senses, look for the light.
That shines in the forhead, the divine eye of sight.
The souls qualities will spill out around.
Silence reveales them not making a sound.
Infinite peace, knowledge and love.
Bliss and purity descends from above.
The soul has existed throughout all time.
A drop from the ocean, a word from a rhyme.
The soul that is me is you and is all.
We are part of the whole, the unity call.