Break off the parts to understand a body, and add the parts to form a body. Adding means yoga. Yoga literally means doing the extra / plus, to add.
What do we add to gain, to be integrated?
Just look into your body, your existence. To meditate, one needs to fix his or her energy on a given subject or object, almost minuscule. When you start meditating, you know you’ve to concentrate first. Take on breathing slowly, slowly, focusing on your breath, and gradually getting yourself attuned to it. After a long practice, a yogi will instantly fix his/her energy between his forehead. The place of the third eye is the space that is connected to the pineal gland placed just behind the head. This gland is responsible for our pleasure, delight, bliss, and wisdom.
After a long and persistent yoga practice and by living a blissful and calm life, one can get the pineal gland activated. Most writers, artists, and scientists automatically get this gland activated, and they show a calm and content character throughout their lives.
The above is a fact. But, the question is how to grow it as an integrated part of us. How does yoga help us?
A devoted artist or scientist automatically becomes a yogic man/person, because, the simple reason of devotion, persistence, and love for their work make it happen. Yes, love, devotion, persistence, and love for your work can make it happen. Love/devotion is a great virtue to feel and achieve that state of existence – that feeling of delight and blessing or divine pleasure.
The Divine pleasure is beyond happiness and unhappiness. It is beyond time and space. It’s beyond fortune and misfortune. The worldly behaviors cannot match this state of happening.
Yoga or meditation is leaving everything, whatever you own at the moment of trance. For example, when you focus on a painting or on a point, your consciousness, and your mind lose everything you hold- your senses: hearing, touching, or smelling power; your hands and legs; your body just rests and your soul or ‘prana’, or your consciousness, gets fixed to a point.
What happens here?
For a moment you are beyond your time and space (surrounding). It happens to us frequently, but usually just for a moment, and you forget that even it remains unnoticed. The feeling that you received in that moment, you usually remember it for a long time, though! So, did you notice? Why some moments or some encounters do not slip off your life so easily? Because of this, when it happens in your life, for a reason, you’re out of this plane, in a kind of out-of-body experience, then!
When you realize this phenomenon consciously and enter that state with an effort, by knowing it and developing a sense of love or labor of love, then it could be held for a longer time, and more frequently. That transforms a regular person into a yogi. One who knows how to add the value system, at the same time, losing or ignoring the main or all the senses. Our main five senses stop working. The rambling mind stops, flying like a fly, and stays at the peak of a flower – calm / cool / fixed. This is how our body senses are, and how the body works. As soon as Michael starts eating the delicious food, his all senses get merged into one – that is about taste and pleasure coming out of it.
A dumb person cannot speak. He/she cannot tell how something tastes, but he/she can feel that it tastes perfect, and gets delighted. Now, what does one lose when becoming a yogi-meditative person or a focused person, and, at the same time, what does one gain in this state of pleasure?
One can ask: How does losing our senses and feelings of the body make us super delighted? How?
When yogis need to forget or avoid their surroundings, time and space, then they are lost in a state of divine pleasure, only because they are connected to the infinite universe.
