Outdoor Yoga Retreat

The science of yoga is a technique that helps us to manifest the divinity that lies hidden within the inner recesses of our personality. What is preventing it from manifesting then? There are various layers to our personality. Even from a scientific point of view, if you take a look at your hand, it gives the impression of being solid matter, however, if you were to observe your hand under a fine microscope, you would discover that it is not so solid, it has got millions of cells which are loosely connected with the tissues, and if you have even a finer microscope, you would find that the cells now dissolved into the molecules and atoms.

Here we reach the boundaries of matter and energy. if we go more deep into the atom, we will find that it has got neutrons, protons, and electrons with some other atomic particles. The science tells us that these particles are not solid, they are just traces of energy. And there is enormous space between the atomic particles that 99% of the atom is empty space. So what then is the nature of our body? Is it a whole lot of energy and this energy is connected to some source of infinite which is providing that energy.

From the Yogic point of view, the energy that makes up this body has got multiple layers. First is the earth, subtler is the water, even subtler is the fire, even subtler is the air within the body and even subtler is the sky or space.

The energy of the mind is subtler than the five gross elements. Even further Subtler is the intellect, Even subtler is the ego and beyond the ego is the real self, the real “I” , which is this “SOUL”. That soul is enmeshed in five layers. The bliss sheath, The intellectual sheath, the mental sheath, the vital energy sheath, and the gross body. The science of yoga is a systematic technique for helping us develop our personality at the physical, mental, intellectual and the spiritual level.