In many old stories about monks and Yogi, you may have found that they lived easily beyond 100 or 150 years age, with absolute young and working body and mind. How could that happen? Since it’s a body, it must deteriorate and perish. It is a law of nature. Yogi being the persuader of aligning life to the nature, would surely not go against the law of nature. But he can reduce the decay to the minimal. And he can also rejuvenate the body and replenish the energy. Yogi have phenomenal amount of energetic persona. They rest very rarely. That is because they can redraw energy from their actions, work, engagements. Lets understand this concept little deeper. When we exercise or work in garden or say do shopping of grocery or travel, we obviously get tired. And it is natural. However, when Yogi performs these actions, he will be still as fresh as he was before or at least very little tired as compared to an ordinary person. Yogi’s body may require some rest or may be tired but his energy levels are absolutely intact. The difference lies in his ability to engage his mind, matter(brain & body) & soul in all actions he performs. What happens when you are engaging all levels of your identity? You are unifying yourself with the action and becoming one with it in thought, action as well as identity. It is here Yog defines the state of meditation. Yes Yogi meditates when he is performing any action. He doesn’t need to stay as recluse banished in forest or mountain with eyes closed and legs in lotus position. Off-course doing it that way when situation allows enhances your progress. But that is not a constraint for meditation for an advanced yogi. He is meditating every moment. His focus is the highest and so is the absorption capacity when he is involved into conversation or learning activities. The flow of energy is smooth when you are meditating. That smoothness of the flow carries information, knowledge and calmness without friction or any loss. The smoothness of the flow of energy allows the entry to the realms of resonance. In purely scientific term, Resonance is an act of matching the frequency. But in yogic term resonance is union of energy. Union of magnetic field, union of thoughts, union of emotion and off-course action. So if you be one with action and are completely subdued in your task at hand, you will have experienced resonance. There are some signs of that. E.g. you lose the track of time. You lose sometimes connection with surrounding and many times you become oblivious to the discomfort of body, cloths, hunger, thirst, noise around you, surrounding weather. Another sign is you come out rejuvenated out of the process. Which means you enjoyed your time. You are high on energy or at least intact. Body may be tired but energy is high. That situation allows you to jump on another work without any rest and still perform. That focus comes with concentration but that’s not all. It comes with another important factor of Yogi prerequisite. That is dissolving your identity in pursuit of being one with the work. E.g. when working in a job at reception, you welcome everyone with same vigour and hospitality and make everyone at ease, loved and cared. That should become your earnest desire, forgetting your own headache or cold or some mental tensions. Another place would be Teaching a class any subject where you pour your heart in it and explain kids and interact with them as you are one of the characters in the subject . Making it lively and interactive. The subject should leave involved teacher and student to desire that period should not end. That kind of engagement is striking resonance with the job at hand. Once that level of union is achieved, you can benefit from meditation from that moment. You no more need special arrangements. This is next level to team work or synergy. When you see a company of soldiers marching past in synergy or birds flying in a sequence that drives synergy or group of people doing together a social or community work. All these examples are of synergy and to some extent forgetting self by identifying with group. Such act of synergy also creates and multiplies surge in energy and output. Yogi can achieve such positive energy surge even when engaged alone. He can go beyond synergy and strike resonance with the task itself. This gives him the same state of meditation as he would get sitting in cave alone in lotus position with eyes closed. Now when you are into such a deep-trans, you are bound to have very efficient mind, brain and body co-ordination. And such highly co-ordinated involvement will obviously optimise your effort and energy. A body in deep-trans or meditating or in union with acts it is performing I.E. resonating, will rejuvenate or generate energy. So traditionally a task or job can be draining your energy and be tiring. When done in a way Yogi does, it can be rejuvenating. So now all dots tie in together to explain how Yogi have always been bustling with high energy and having highest quality yield in their tasks. To end the chapter, I will summarise an example of such highest yield. Swami Vivekananda in USA during his famous tour visited a farm. People there were playing a game with guns to hit the target. They invited Swamiji to try hands on gun. Swamiji reluctantly tried and aimed at the target and hit it absolutely bang on precision. Everyone cheered and asked if Swamiji was professional shooter. Vivekananda politely explained that this is the first time he is holding gun in his hands. People in complete disbelief asked him to try again. Swamiji hit the target with repeat precision second time. Then Swamiji explained, it’s his meditation that is aiding here to produce such enhanced result. Vivekananda was able to dissolve himself, ignore all noise around and focus his mind and align his senses and body to perform the action of shooting to generate same union or resonance that we discussed in above chapter.
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