The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

JUNE 21: INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY AND EXISTENTIALISM

International Yoga Day is on June 21, the day when Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris.

It may be a coincident but a day to celebrate the ancient Indian tradition that has become a global 'good health element' with time, is also a day when the world remembers the most influential mind behind 'Existentialism'.

Yoga in India goes beyond its 'routine physical exercise' nature - the practice that took it to the western countries, starting with Swami Vivekananda in 1890s.

Yoga in India, and in some countries where beliefs born in India spread, especially Buddhism, is seen as complete discipline and is primarily associated with spirituality and meditation. It emphasizes on the holistic balance in every walk of life and is aimed at ensuring a sound mind in a healthy body.

Yoga is a discipline with a philosophy that builds individuals who are self-aware and at the same time are in harmony with their surroundings, maintaining spontaneously balanced relations with nature and living beings.

Existentialism, though with different definitions, concurs that man is free and 'is responsible' to determine what becomes of him -  in the sense that he sees and interprets his life and events in his life - based on circumstances - for the quest to lead a life that is as per his 'understanding' - that corresponds to his definitions of morality and different circumstances of life - the definitions that are within the norms for a healthy mind and body - the definitions that take different hues with time.

Yoga can help an individual develop a healthy 'existentialist' perspective based on his 'philosophy of necessity'. Yoga can help find that 'missing element' in every life.

And June 21 is around the corner.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/