Bhavani

Live in prosperity. My name is Bhavani. I have come here from Udumalpet. I have been in Manavalakalai Yoga for 14 years, and I am now on the professor's course. Because I have been doing this, we are now going to speak about how people feel. If you say yoga, it is not moving the arms and legs; if you say yoga it means joining, becoming refined — harmony. Now we call that a life, a yogic life. If you ask what must be joined to what, it is when body, life and mind, these three, function joined together in coordination that life becomes excellent. That is what they call yoga. So what must be joined to what — the life must join with the body, the mind must join with the life, and the mind must join with nature. It is when we live joined with nature that life becomes excellent. That is what they call yoga. So what happens from doing this yoga is that all the endocrine glands in the body begin to function well, and at the same time the air system, the blood system and the heat system are all regulated. So because all of these are regulated, immunity within the body increases. We can reduce illness before it comes, and we can remove the illness that is there. If we look at the body, scientifically we say it is made of cells. So all these cells keep producing new cells. Cells keep being destroyed too. So with doing this yoga, when we say new cells keep forming, when these mature cells are destroyed, then when an illness has come the diseased cells will be destroyed. So when the diseased cells are destroyed and new cells form, the nature of the disease keeps reducing. Now, day by day, health keeps improving. Everyone can experience this in life. If every day, as soon as we get up in the morning, we spend an hour for our body, life and mind, then for the remaining 23 hours we will be excellently brisk and very active; tiredness will not come and there will be no need at all tosleep at midday. If you lie down at night a good deep sleep will come. So the nature of the body is reshaped like that; likewise the mind — when we close our eyes and do those practices, when the mind attends to the body itself, that mind too joins with the life and a coordination is established. When that happens, what results is that the mind too comes to a state of peace. It is when that state of peace comes that, however much medicine we take, the mind too comes to a state of peace, and when we take it while in a state of clarity, that medicine works in a good way too. For all of that, this yoga is a most excellent help. Now, for 6 years — arthritis, what they call rheumatoid arthritis, came to me. In these six years I do not sleep at midday. I did not take any treatment. I had been doing all these practices. I do meditation. And likewise there is a practice for the life force; I do that. I do physical exercise, I do yogasanas. So because of that, the effects that come from this arthritis were not there for me to that extent. So I go to service too. If I go at about ten in the morning I can even speak until five in the evening. I would be taking classes; likewise, for those 6 years I have been doing service in the same way, doing free service. Now, about 10 or 15 days ago, because this work was rather heavy, a joint pain of mine became rather worse. Two people from our town had been to this AVN Arogya hospital and come back. So I asked them, what sort of treatment is this — and at once they said, the treatment here is good like this, you go and come back. Then I looked at it on the internet too. As soon as I looked — it said Ayurveda, Arogya Ayurvedic Hospital. And then it said Swasthya. All right, it struck my mind that if we went here we would get a solution. So all right, we set off last Thursday and came here. As soon as we came we saw the doctor, we saw Dr.Biju, and he said, you can stay here about 10 days, he said. Even if you go home, come and stay about 10 days, he said. I said, sir, we have come as though to stay right now, and at once they began the treatment. In these 10 days my joint pain has all reduced somewhat. I can feel it well. Throughout these 10 days here I kept on doing my exercises and all the practices I do. Even today, even this morning, I did them. Because of doing that and because this treatment is good, in these 11 days my joint pain has really reduced and I can feel it well. So for everyone, what I say is that when we set aside an hour in the morning for our body and do this practice, whatever medicine we take, this medicine will work in a good way — knowing that well, if all of us make doing yoga a habit along with whatever other habits we have, we can be free of illness. The children born to us can also be born free of illness. It has the capacity to reshape a whole generation. We can live a long life like that, we can live without illness. Such an excellent practice is this yoga practice. Doing this continuously — if you look at the birds and animals, if you look at the dogs and cats, they get up in the morning and stretch their legs and do an exercise. But when the five-sensed animals and the birds do it, why is it that only the human being, who has six senses, will not do it? That is a puzzle to us. If we understand that well and begin to do it, and if we experience the benefits it brings and the joy it brings, we can turn our lives into a life of great bliss. Live in prosperity.