Peace Within

Yoga helps an individual to control his inner self and live in peace with himself and the surroundings. Although science has made tremendous progress and controlled the immediate environment, but has it given peace to mind? In fact its one- sided development may one day prove disastrous. On the other hand the problem of violence, aggression and war can find a solution only if peace within oneself exists and that is the way of yoga. It is a science of personality and anybody who has learnt to live in peace with the environment is a yogi – a perfect individual thus say our saints.

But is it necessary to go through the yoga techniques t free oneself from the bondage of birth and death?
Some very renowned personage have put a question mark on the futility of going through various yogic exercise and attaining knowledge to reach a state of freedom from bondage. The great Adi Shankaracharya who snatched back the ancient Hindu religinon from the clutches of Jainism and Buddhism has declared in his Viveka chudamani that the study of scriptures and the following the pratices given terein has no use unless one reaches the state of mukti. And once one attains that state, one has nothing to do with scriptures. To quote him:” A first – hand knowledge of the moon can be had not by seeing the moon by one’s own eyes. So is the case with mukti; it has to be experience by trying to know what others have said about it.”