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they say yoga can give you strenght and can build muscle mass as well as help you tone some one the other day said no matter what kinda yoga you do it keeps you limber gives you a broader range of thinking is very healthy for ones life style sociallly connects you to others in a gym style experience and can keep your mind healthy and vigerous as well as lose weight
Unfortunately, we don't know the meaning of yoga. We think yoga is some physical exercises or asanas. We think yoga is about breathing techniques or pranayama. The real meaning of yoga is Yuj or union with the Divine. That union transcends the mind, transcends the body. It is not about doing some physical gymnastics or hot yoga or different kinds of fancy yoga that people talk about. Therefore, a real yogi is the one who performs yoga. A true yogi is one who lives in eternal joy and everlasting bliss, knowing that he is not the body, mind and ego; he is the Divine Soul. He is ever-united with God and experiences the Divine within. He knows that the kingdom of God is within and he sees God is within each one of us, everywhere. He lives a life of Satchitananda, which is eternal bliss and peace.
True yoga comes from the word Yuj which means union - union of the Soul that is within with the Divine supreme Soul. When one lives a life of a yogi, one is united with the Divine, one transcends the mind that wanders, the ego that gets agonized and the body that suffers physical pain. We escape from the triple suffering of ordinary humans, because we realize we are a manifestation of the Divine. Therefore a true Yogi understands that yoga is just not physical exercise or asanas or breathing techniques, pranayama. Real yoga is living with the realization that we are all manifestations of God, living with God's Divine presence around us all the time.