Life of a yog guru
Being a yoga guru and having students from all walks of life from all over the world, one’s life seems very cushy and comfortable with an over-spilling bank balance, but I would like to highlight the reality.
To embark on this beautiful journey called yog, you come in contact with various aspects of divinity. A one-to-one connection is developed with the disciples/students. The siddhis detailed in Patanjali Ashtang Yog are accessed easily. Wealth is at your beck and call and one doesn’t have to sell any complicated asanas and kriyas. People of the opposite sex follow you like bees follow nectar. Even the manifestation of thoughts become so fast that you have to only think and the thought materialises. But to disappoint everyone, the situation at this point of time becomes like, “water, water everywhere not a drop to drink”.
For yog gurus, if you collect wealth, it breeds disease in the body for wealth is like prana which when collected and stored, rots. Or like water, which if stored rots. Sexual indulgence results in phenomenal loss of prana. For that momentary gratification, you end up losing phenomenal energy that goes into your partner. Regarding manifestation of thoughts and desires, if you want material objects, you will get them but you will lose your siddhis.
Fortunately/unfortunately, this is the way yog is designed — for yog is a path to leave what you have accumulated over so many births and centuries. It is not a tool to grab more of everything in the physical. This also explains why the tridevas, who have access to every pleasure possible, do not desire anything for themselves. Out of thousands of stories about them, not a single one talks of them doing anything for their own good or selfish motives. Everything they do is for creation and that is the path of a yog guru as well.
For a yogi, the phenomenal pleasure experienced through pure yog like Sanatan Kriya is beyond the comprehension of a normal mind. It can only be experienced as every day is a new high.
Yogi Ashwini, the guiding light of Dhyan Foundation, is an authority on yoga, tantra and the Vedic sciences. His recent book is Sanatan Kriya: 51 Miracles... And a Haunting.
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