Fitness of Body Soul and Mind

It is widely believed that there are two categories of soul. Individual Soul – Jivatma and the Supreme Soul – The Paramatma. The individual soul is an image or reflection of the supreme soul, just as the one Sun is reflected in multiple pools of water. In its untainted state, Soul is the ultimate indestructible reality. Science disputes Soul as alive. To science a living object is a complex mechanism, powered by electrochemical sparks and triggers, but physical energy has no consciousness. However amazing a machine the body may be, it is the presence of non physical conscious energy, in the form of Soul, which makes it function, the way it does.

Have you ever asked the question, WHO am I, What is my identity? How does my thought and feeling interact with the body? Who feels the Emotion, Sympathy, Anger, Tension, Happiness, Bliss and How? In simple words, the nonphysical consciousness is the stumbling block for pure science. The Soul (Purusha) is pure consciousness, somehow tainted by a predominant influence of Prakriti (Yin). There after, under the influence of ignorance, it conjures up ego and the concept of “I” and “Me” is born, shrouded in all kinds of predispositions. Pre dispositions or SANSKARS are impressions in subconscious mind, which is a kind of record of the soul’s past experiences and actions and is the basis of the individual Soul’s individuality. Soul is separate from the Brain, which is a complex organ made of matter and its properties. Soul is pure consciousness, how it reacts with physical matter, still remains unclear.

A crucial requirement of body fitness is flexibility. Plenty of physical activity, involving all the joints and organs in the body is required to keep the body in a healthy state.

Modern societies are blessed, or more appropriately, cursed with labour saving devices, idle recreations and quick fix ready-made, unhealthy food consumption. Of course in some way that makes life easy. To compensate, the educated overworked men and women join their local gym, buy exercise machines and run around like headless chicken trying to cope with weight gain, depression and a progressive deterioration of overall fitness. There is no peace in mind and no pleasure in life. All this happens because the exercise regime is faulty. We get too much involved with our material life and begin to identify ourselves with our possession – home, car, job, family and so on. Hence Yoga introduced a simple self discovery meditation procedure that can lead one to spiritual core of one’s being. Yoga meditation is the tool that rationalizes the intellect, and puts focus on one’s Inner Self, whose voice remain suppressed through ignorance.