The purpose of Nithya Yoga is to experience our birthright – which is bliss. We must ‘unclutch’ from old and negative beliefs and insert
positive beliefs into our system; working towards bliss, experiencing bliss and expressing bliss.
The capacity to experience bliss will just explode in our inner space and the capacity to radiate bliss will start happening in our body.
If we look deeply into ourselves, we can see that we never feel relaxed and never feel comfortable with our own body.
When we look at someone else and decide that they are beautiful and we feel we actually want to look like them, immediately
we create a gap between ourselves and our bodies. We put a wedge between ourselves and our body.
In India, when they break large pieces of wood, they will insert a wedge so that the two pieces won’t reunite.
Similarly, when we start believing that we are not beautiful, we insert a wedge between ourselves and our body, and there is less chance of us
reuniting with our body.
A male feeling attracted towards a female or vice versa is completely normal. However, if a male looks at another male
who is a model and immediately feels he would like to look like he does, this is not natural. If a female looks at another
female who is a model and immediately feels she would like to look like her, understand, there is something seriously wrong in your Being.
Once we can relax with the idea that we are all created differently in our own unique way, we will start to experience a tremendous homely
feeling within our body.
There is no scale of beauty; however, we all have an idea, a scale, a certain set of measurements we continuously believe we need to match.
If God were an engineer, he would have created moulds of Miss World and Mister World and commenced a mass production.
He would have simply made all of us the same, from the same mould. However, God is not an engineer, he is an artist.
He carves every one of us. He paints every one of us. We are all unique. Be very clear, we are not equal but unique.
The very idea that everyone is equal is totally wrong.
If we look deeply into our Being, we constantly feel uneasy with our body and this uneasiness is the root cause for all of our diseases.
We avoid the body. All of our pain and disease is nothing but our body asking for our presence, our energy and our attention.
If we concentrate on giving attention to our body, naturally there will not be any problems.
We all know, if we don’t give enough attention to our home, it will fall apart.
Our body is our home, therefore, to prevent it falling to pieces, start giving it some attention, some energy and some love.
Question: Master, how do we pay attention to our body?
Answer: We spend at least 2–3 hours a day with our body. We shower, groom, brush our teeth, dress ourselves, and eat.
However, if we observe ourselves closely while undertaking these activities directly related to our bodies, we are never inside our boundary.
Essentially, we are never actually in tune with or feeling how our body is responding to these activities.
It is obvious. When we are brushing our teeth, we are thinking about our business. When we are showering, we are thinking about our patients.
Surely we cannot examine your patients while we are in the shower! Therefore, while we are doing anything related to our body, simply we should be there
inside our boundary. Have no thought about anyone or anything. Nothing else! Just decide we will be inside our own body.
However, most of us don’t really want to be with our bodies. If we see our routines, we will do everything possible to avoid looking at our bodies.
We avoid looking at them deeply, penetrating them. We find it impossible to relax with our body. Instead, we will bend over backwards in an attempt to
change our bodies and resultantly end up depressed, upset and frustrated by being unable to meet the high standard of beauty, society has imposed on us.
The moment we actually start accepting our body for what it is, the moment we relax with our body, we achieve something far greater than beauty and that
is grace. It is not beauty, it is grace. Beauty comes from make up and plastic surgery. Grace comes from accepting and relaxing with ourselves.
In the Indian epic Ramayana, it is told that when the daughter of Janaka, Sita, walked into the court of Janaka, everyone including the great sages and Janaka
himself stood up to pay their respect to her. Sita, the daughter of Janaka, simply exuded such an amazing grace that she was highly admired and respected.
We need to relax within ourselves. Everyday, whenever we find ourselves doing anything related to our body, we should decide to be inside our boundary.
We should avoid thinking about anything or anyone else. We should witness what is happening within our body and how our body is responding. When we
brush our teeth, we should witness how our mouth is feeling. When we have our shower, we should become aware of how our body is responding to the
sensation of the water. When we dress ourselves, we need to notice how our body is feeling. Understand, our body responds to every single thought
created by our mind. We have the ability to restructure our whole body with our mind.
In the East, there is a beautiful philosophy known as samudrika lakshana. The theory encompasses how our entire mind can be studied. A person who has
mastered this art can understand the exact nature of a person’s mind, simply by visually observing their body; reason being, the body is an expression of
our mind. Our body is created by our mind.
> From talks on Yoga given to Professionals by Nithyananda in the USA, 2005
