YOGA - The Journey back to source

Yoga: The Journey Back to Our Source

Long before we celebrated June 21st as International Yoga Day, the ancient seers of Bharat (India) knew that Yoga was not just a practice—it was a path back home.

Not home in the ordinary sense of walls and addresses, but home as in our origin, our source, our true nature. That source is Brahman—the formless, infinite consciousness beyond time, space, name, and form.

We began there—in stillness, wholeness, bliss.
In that state, we were not the body, not even the mind. We were pure awareness, vast like the sky, silent like the deep ocean.

But something incredible happened:
That infinite consciousness—just like a child wanting to play—decided to explore itself. It descended into form. It took on a name. It became you and me. This descent gave rise to the individual soul—a spark of the cosmic flame.

And slowly, we forgot.
We mistook the roles for the real.
We became so immersed in this play—of jobs, relationships, successes, failures, identities—that we forgot we were actors on the divine stage of life.
This forgetting gave birth to the ego—the sense of separateness, the “I” that says, this is mine, this is not me.

But the ancient Rishis did not leave us without a map.

They gave us Yoga.

Yoga: A Bridge Back to the Infinite

The word Yoga means union. It is the sacred science of reconnecting what seems lost—our connection with the Universe, with Nature, and ultimately, with the Self.

Yoga is not just twisting into postures or breathing deeply (though those help). It is a re-orientation of awareness—a remembering that I am not just this body, not just this mind. I am consciousness itself.

Every time we roll out the mat, every time we sit in silence, every time we close our eyes and watch the breath, something within us begins to re-align.

We begin to return—from:

• Noise to stillness,
• Separation to unity,
• Ego to soul,
• Soul to Source.

The Cosmic Journey Through Yoga

Just as the universe emerged from Brahman into the realms of energy and matter, we too journey from spirit to ego.
But yoga shows us the path to reverse this journey.

Through the 8 limbs of yoga taught by Patanjali, we begin the process:

1. Yama & Niyama clean the moral lens.
2. Asana steadies the body.
3. Pranayama refines the breath.
4. Pratyahara withdraws the senses inward.
5. Dharana focuses the mind.
6. Dhyana leads us into stillness.
7. Samadhi dissolves all boundaries.

In deep meditation, when we focus on the ajna chakra (the spiritual eye), we begin to sense a vast awareness behind the breath, behind thought.

You don’t have to imagine it—it’s there.
As the Bhagavad Gita says:
"The Self is not born, nor does it die. It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval."

This Self is you. And Yoga is how you remember it.

On This Yoga Day: Sit. Breathe. Remember.

You are not small.
You are not alone.
You are not broken.

You are a wave returning to the ocean.
You are a star remembering its light.
You are not becoming something new. You are removing what you are not.

So today, as millions around the globe bow on mats, chant “AUM”, breathe deeply, or sit in silence—know that this is not just a celebration of flexibility or fitness.

It is a celebration of consciousness.

Of our sacred ability to remember the forgotten path.
To walk it joyfully.
And to return—not to a place—but to a state of being.

A state where there is no separation.
Only peace.
Only unity.
Only Yoga.