YOGABHARATI

[ Krishna in Bhagavad Gita gives several unique concepts and one such concept is ‘Swadharma’. In the second chapter he brings about this by telling this to Arjuna, the Kshatriya or warrior and as a leader of an army, He also makes subsequent references to this concept where he makes it much more elaborate. Let us try to unravel this in this article. ] PART – 1 Swami Vivekananda quotes the Upanishad concept“Each soul is potentially divine and the goal is to manifest this divinity internally and externally …”Here he meant that we may look to be different individuals outside but deep inside we have the same divinity, but it is in an un-manifest way and each of us has to find out our own unique way to manifest this. This process in short is the “Swa + Dharma or Swadharma” way of life. Krishna further emphasises that nobody else’s Swadharma or the path, or journey or methodology can be our Swadharma. He further cautions that following others methodology is frightening. In a ge...

 Faith, belief and Shraddha . Many at times, we face the question, Is faith necessary? The answer is that we are surviving every second because there is something called Faith. Every moment is moving from the known to the unknown. The known is minuscule compared to the unknown dimension. In nature, every life happens with faith as its foundation. The plant grows roots with the faith that it will find water. A creeper holds on to a big tree with the faith that it will support the creeper. We all go to sleep with the faith that we will wake up the next morning. Every moment, as the unknown unfolds, we move on in life with faith only. Faith comes within the sphere of logic. Faith is built based on enquiry. For example, we have faith in one doctor because he seems to have treated a disease very well. We have enquired about the doctor and built faith on him. Faith is very functional and is focused to that particular function only. I may prefer to learn Yoga from a partic...