The Yoga of Patanjali

126 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalipractising Sirshasana, Sarvangasana etc. and they say “Weare doing Yoga” What Patanjali and the Bhagavadgita proposeas this third item Asana, is different from those physical postures.Of course, the physical Asanas make the physical and the ethericbody fit to receive and establish stability. “Asana is stabilityand happiness” says Patanjali. It is evident that these two thingsare not physical. “Stability in the I AM is Asana” saysBhagavadgita. It is the process of finding stability in the soullight.To do this Patanjali recommends the process of“Alternation’’.Alternation of effort and relaxation, makes this possible.While practising awareness you should not make the consciousattempt continuously. Make an attempt and relax by observingyourself. That means let the attempt be active and passivealternately. Take it easy whenever you fail but make the attemptonce again not to fail. Let not your failure be your obstacle.Make the better use of your failures and pocket them for aneconomic way of utility. Your failures should be the steppingstones to your success, but not stumbling blocks on your way.Apply the effort, relax the effort, apply the effort, relax theeffort and then you will get at the continuous awareness. If youdo not care to do so you will have the strain of the process toyour vehicles. Monotony enters and makes you stop compulsorilyfor some reason or other. This is a very scientific point which isbased upon the higher order of things in nature. The flow ofenergy in any form exists only due to the Phenomenon ofalternation. A ray of light illumines your eye because it is madeup of points of light and darkness alternated, well-knit. Heattravels in waves that alternate. Unless your body is colder youcannot have heat. Magnetism exists as a phenomenon due tothe attraction and repulsion. From these examples you canunderstand that the phenomenon of manifestation follows the