Discipline: Indiscipline In Yoga

The ‘Discipline’ is indispensable to each & every living being. For human it is even more crucial like the spinal column. Without discipline humanity will be disintegrated. Discipline implies the ‘observance of certain well-defined regulations’. Without such rules it is not possible to maintain mankindness. Such directive contributes to the honour of human existence. Discipline cannot be obtained from books. Nor can it be learnt from teachers. It has to be as natural ingredient of one 's daily life in the discharge of one 's obligations. Discipline is vital from the moment of waking to the time of going to sleep. One of the important constituents of discipline is physical purity. This does not simply mean keeping the body clean by a good shower. Meanwhile the real bodily purity calls for participation in good actions. The quality actions and standard thoughts lead to purity of mind and the wisdom. The purpose of Yoga is to put an end to the mind of all muddling thoughts, and this isn’t possible without self-discipline. Thus, in the absence of self-discipline, favourable outcome in yoga is phantasmagoria. Yoga has often been mistakenly interpreted as a collection of only Asanas or postures, but actually it is a framework of self-discipline. Asanas and pranayamas (breathing exercises) comprise only a small part of the broadness of Yoga. The different types of Yoga systems, most probably all of which started in India many years ago, involve Karma Yoga