135. Just move the body with the intention and get the result!

On some days, Raghupati Yogi would ask me to sit still and be very peaceful, to meditate on stillness, peace and tranquility. Then after ten minutes, he would suddenly tell me to stand up and run around the entire temple as fast as I could!

He would make me bend this way and that way. In the temple where he would teach me yoga, there were twenty to

For whatever purpose you move your body, that memory will become completely recorded in your body and mind.

thirty pillars. He would make me climb every stone pillar and come down. Also I had to use only one hand to climb the pillars and come down!

I would ask him why he was making me climb all the pillars, because I couldn't find any books or any sutras* saying climbing pillars was a part of yoga!

He said a beautiful thing, 'For whatever purpose you bend your body or move your body, that memory and idea will become completely inserted or completely recorded in your body and mind.'

It was a very shocking revelation! He said, with any intention that you move your body, bend your body, or make your body active, that intention, that purpose, will be recorded into your body, that samskara will start expressing in your body.

Asana - Physical posture and one of the eight paths of yoga in Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga.

Neti - Nasal cleansing technique of yoga.

Dhauti - A yogic practice of cleansing intestines.

Sutras - Spiritual techniques offered in epigram form.

Your body itself is made out of your memory.

Understand, he means that the

way in which you bend, in which you stand up, or the method by which you do asanas* , all these things are not too important. It is the intention that is important. If you have an intention to have health, and move your body in any way with that intention, health will simply happen to you!

Today, especially in the West, there has been too much connection of disease and asanas - for this disease, you have to do that asana, for this problem you have to do that technique.

A small story:

A young woman had a habit of biting her fingernails. She was getting worried about it and asked her friend for help. Her friend advised her to take up yoga to solve this problem.

The woman started yoga, and soon her fingernails were growing normally.

Her friend was very happy and said, 'See, I told you yoga would solve your problem of biting your nails!'

The woman slowly replied, 'Actually, no. It is just that now I am able to reach my toe-nails so I bite them instead!'

Understand, doing asanas for solving a disease is not the purpose of yoga! When you think of a disease and do yoga with that thought in your mind, you are actually pushing the imprint of the thought of that disease into your system!

Raghupati Yogi says that any asana practised, or any physical movement practised for some purpose with some intention, will create that effect in your body. He says that this is possible even with ordinary sitting. If you strongly believe that by sitting you will have health and you just sit for health, simply you will see health happening in you.

Understand, your body itself is made out of your memory. Your mind, what you think of as you, makes up the building blocks of your body.

In any way that you move the body with the faith that a particular thing will happen in you, it will simply start expressing in you. Every memory is recorded in your muscles. So when you change the memories, you can change your system also. Your system can and will respond to the memory you create.

This is how the transformation in the bodymind happens through Nithya Yoga. The inner space is cleansed first so that the

Asana - Physical posture and one of the eight paths of yoga in Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga. Asana must be stable and comfortable.

mind falls in tune. Then the body follows as the physical movement is done with the intention. The intention gets inserted into the very muscle memory and cellular intelligence.