We become slaves of our emotions – Ron van der Post
Emotion is the polluted form of universal love which is always in us. Because our Ego becomes active, we transform that pure love into personal subjective emotions if we are focused on the outside world, and if we focus on the divine world it becomes devotion.
Emotion is the cause of your action, what you are doing has no meaning, but what does have meaning is the reason you are doing it. Your motive is related to your emotion, and emotions appear in many forms. Emotions always become forceful and compel a person to act. The forces in the field of the present are forcing us to action. Patanjali sutra 4.08
1] There is the ever-pressing force of evolution,
2] The penetrating and directing power of the divine plan,
3] There is the enormous potential power of the samskaras, both in the thought process and in matter.
When a desire is not fulfilled, disappointment / sadness / irritation / upset / anger/aggression rise in us and will influence our actions in the present and the future. When emotions such as anger stay in our system, in the long term they will harm us. Emotions will harm us from inside: anger weakens the liver, grief weakens the lungs, worry weakens the stomach, stress weakens the brain and heart, fear weakens the kidneys. We are all looking for love – knowledge – recognition and if we can’t have it, then other qualities will rise in us in the form of ego, jealousy and power.
Our thinking mechanism is like a slave of our desires; are we happy with that?
Ron van der Post [1955] is the founder of Yoga teacher training school Ron van der Post, one of the oldest and leading yoga teacher training schools in the Netherlands.
Practicing Yoga since 1980 under guidance by BKS Iyengar and having been trained and initiated by Brahmrishi Visvatma Bawra Maharash Ji and swami Yogananda in 1993 in India. He is one of the few students from the West who have been trained in this tradition in India. At the insistence of his Guru, he started to pass on this impressive knowledge in the form of a training that started in 1996.
Ron is renowned in Europe for having mastered living the authentic yogi life in a western society and his ability to transmit that knowledge in a “crystal-clear” down-to-earth manner.
Originally a trained nurse, social worker, psychotherapist, massage therapist, shiatsu therapist and nutritional therapist, Ron’s reputation and incessant dedication have brought him to teach yoga-clinics and seminars all over Europe, India, Surinam and the Middle East.
Ron has been teaching Yoga the same way and in the spirit of the yogis who have been teaching it for centuries in the Himalayas. It is Ashtanga Yoga in its truest form, with the Karma Yoga as the central pillar. Getting control over the mental and energetic processes that take place in the body is the main purpose of this yoga. The asanas are simply a means of getting a grip on the mental side of yoga, instead of a goal on its own. Special emphasis is put on the 8-folded path of yoga, as described by Patanjali, and the application and use of the yamas and niyamas. Facilitating and stimulating the development of each individual student take the core priority in his teaching method.
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