We are living in a world that is very busy to look for "cause and effect".
If we are used to this way of thinking too much,
we tend to seek for something as an "ultimate cause" that can solve everything like a savior.
I usually see somebody who might have this kind of desire.
Or, I may be (definitely used to be) a person who has such desire.
However, if we put yoga in a box of "cause" of "becoming well", it cannot be special compared to other methods.
There are many other powerful way, I know yoga is very powerful for health though.
Plus, this way of explanation describe the world too much simpler than as it is.
We miss the vast network and relationships that make each phenomena happen.
If we describe yoga as a "cause" of good effects, we mention the aspect of "tapas".
Tapas means to reduce the mental/physical impurities.
It is sure that yoga contains this aspect.
But yoga has more qualities;
Yoga is not only preparation "cause" for future result.
Svadhyaya means to look over the whole network of "cause-effect" and to know oneself arising from complexity of relationships.
Isvarapranidana means to know that individuals cannot possess any relationship and to surrender oneself to the flow of nature.
Yoga contains these three qualities and they happen simultaneously.
I think this fact makes yoga very powerful.
When people ask me a reason why I practice yoga,
and when I explain why yoga is good,
I have no choice but to mention the aspect of "a cause that brings about better effect".
It's not impossible to say about it.
However, essence of yoga may reside in the fact that we cannot complete describing it on this "cause-effect" context.
If we are used to this way of thinking too much,
we tend to seek for something as an "ultimate cause" that can solve everything like a savior.
I usually see somebody who might have this kind of desire.
Or, I may be (definitely used to be) a person who has such desire.
However, if we put yoga in a box of "cause" of "becoming well", it cannot be special compared to other methods.
There are many other powerful way, I know yoga is very powerful for health though.
Plus, this way of explanation describe the world too much simpler than as it is.
We miss the vast network and relationships that make each phenomena happen.
If we describe yoga as a "cause" of good effects, we mention the aspect of "tapas".
Tapas means to reduce the mental/physical impurities.
It is sure that yoga contains this aspect.
But yoga has more qualities;
tapah svadhyaya isvarapranidanani kriya yogah. (PYS.2-1)
Yoga is not only preparation "cause" for future result.
Svadhyaya means to look over the whole network of "cause-effect" and to know oneself arising from complexity of relationships.
Isvarapranidana means to know that individuals cannot possess any relationship and to surrender oneself to the flow of nature.
Yoga contains these three qualities and they happen simultaneously.
I think this fact makes yoga very powerful.
When people ask me a reason why I practice yoga,
and when I explain why yoga is good,
I have no choice but to mention the aspect of "a cause that brings about better effect".
It's not impossible to say about it.
However, essence of yoga may reside in the fact that we cannot complete describing it on this "cause-effect" context.
