ISHVARA PRANIDHANA. RELIANCE ON THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE. YOGA PRINCIPLES

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hello today we will be talking about the last principle of niyama it is called ishwara pranadhana ishwara means higher consciousness and praying hara means to take refuge in now what does this mean it means that right now my sense of happiness is based on some external circumstances for example i live in barnard i have some friends i have some acquaintances i have a job i have this that and the other i have many external circumstances and of course if our signing sent somewhere in america into an unfamiliar district i would be very unhappy as my ordinary everyday life would be broken and with it the sense of happiness i built on it this life will no longer be there and so i will feel miserable but the principle of ishwara ponytana says that with regular practice your sense of happiness begins to be based on how harmonious you are how in tune you are with your own conscience how much inspiration you draw from the higher consciousness or your own higher self within you there is a supreme soul and when your mind is clear when it is pure this is as if the sun on a cloud was day and as this sun shines upon you you feel inspired and from that inspiration you receive the understanding that the most important thing in life is how much you follow the voice of your conscience this is the first priority and from this alone you can already become anything you can be a photographer or a programmer anyone you want so i can be anyone i can teach awesomes i can lead marathons so i can be a groundskeeper if i wish this is secondary most important is who you are at the moment when you're performing some action or where you get inspiration that is little by little by little we feel this flow so this is not simply some inner voice so this is a force that when you do something it brings you happiness from simply having performed the action that is you gain a genuine desire to do this and there are such situations when the desired and the real do not coincide and then you act carelessly as for your thoughts you are just sitting there in the sixth lesson of the day but you're just dreaming about how you will go home and watch some cartoons you are bored because you are neither here nor there and what is boring it is when your mind is torn between what you want and what you have when wishful thinking and reality are not the same while being in the flow is to do as we say whatever makes you happy makes you feel emboldened inspired and joyful and in this moment you are not bored because the action is itself a reward you do this sincerely and the results more often than not turn out to be positive even if some obstacles prevent you from achieving your goal it still inspires you this is life in the flow and this is the principle of ishwara pranithana when you first set the goals that is give them an inner purpose we often come to yoga to self-development when our goals are already set i want to be the richest i want a green porsche but this goal is not easy to achieve and you are finding ways to fulfill this goal you watch different films visualizations whatever else this is not quite in the spirit of ishwar paranitana hishivara printed hana is first and foremost about how to divert your attention away from the outside world and truly feel from within and not under some outside influence not under some outside suggestion that you need to become a warrior or a dentist or a musician as you're told since childhood while meanwhile you don't really know what you truly want so what do you really want who can you learn this from the answer is yourself therefore the principle of ishwara pranadhana is to first set the goals to have these goals filled with this spiritual energy that is to have them come from the very depth of your heart and your conscience that is the first stage and then you need to latch on to this goal and run with it and then your wife will be entirely in the flow you will be overcoming all these doubts anxieties sorrows worries very quickly because you will feel that you already have this happiness and it is growing and growing and growing this is the principle of ishwara panitana we take a refuge in this inner essence of the self when you get to know your deeper self [Music] you