Amit Online Yoga Center

I will enunciate the discipline of Yoga. Shashana mean rules that somebody else puts on you.  Anushashana is the rule that you put, impose on yourself.  Do you see the difference?  Shashana is the rules & regulations that the king or society imposes on you.  Anushashana is the rule that you make on yourself, impose on your Self. Now, why Yoga is called a discipline?  Where is a need of discipline?  When does a need for discipline arises? See, when you are thirsty & you want to drink water, we don’t say, this is a rule you must drink water or you have taken a discipline to drink water.  When you are hungry, you don’t say I have a discipline of eating when I have hunger.  Do you see what I am saying?  Or you don’t even say, Oh! I have a discipline of enjoying the nature.  When it comes to the question of enjoyment, no discipline is necessary.  Where does discipline come? Not somewhere, where it is enjoyable at the very first step.  A child never say ‘s I have a discipline of running to my mother when I look at her. Discipline arises where something is not very charming to begin with, isn’t it?  When you know something would give a fruit, which is very good, enjoyable – but the seed to begin with is not that enjoyable. When you are abiding in your Self, when you are in joy, when you are in peace or happiness true happiness, then you are already in your Self, there is no discipline there.  But when that is not so, the mind is wagging its tail all the time, then a discipline is essential so that it could calm down, it could come back to its Self, the fruit of which is eventually blissful, joyful. Are you getting what I am saying?