The giving hand is always full. The receiving end is always empty.
So whenever I want to receive my hand is always empty.
When I started to give my hand is always full. I don't feel I'm empty.
I feel everything is in me, so I have everything.
so then I feel I'm rich
Right now I'm back in Mysore, on the south of India.
I'm in an area called Lakshmipuram.
And I came here to meet with my friend Kushal.
He is actually one of the newest ashtanga yoga teachers right here in Mysore
In just a few years his popularity growing day by day.
I want to introduce you to him so you get to know who he is.
His school is right here.
This was actually the same yoga shala where Masterji used to teach.
so let's go, let's go up and meet with Kushal
while he's giving his morning yoga class
In the school I've went to one class
for yoga class. Then the teacher asked me money
then I asked my parents and my parents said okay you stop practicing because
they said before it's free class
So I come back and there was always some
thing happening inside to go and learn
It was in the seed form in the childhood
when I grew and I finished my school, then I enter to the higher school like after tenth grade.
I found some article in the newspaper
There was a kind of workshop for like 10 days or 15 days yoga workshop
So I just went
I got kind of basic yoga practice
so then I started to practice at home and then I started to follow videos
and then again I finished the school and then I started to go work again
I couldn't concentrate on my practice
but after a few years of work I was not happy in my career
Always something is telling okay this is not your place
this is not your place. I was not happy at all in my job
Then I completely get down.
I was kind of a depressed.
Maybe upset.
I don't know it is upset or depressed
and also my health is going down, down, down
Then I said like so, what to choose?
Choose the drugs or choose the practice
Then I felt my mother helped me to give me fire
Because she worked all day. She was not taking rest.
I was wondering because I couldn't do like that because she's woman and
even now I'm a boy and men, but even my father is not like that
He's very kind of lazy but my mother is very active
Then I raised the question "Why you're like this?"
and I even brought washing machine she's not washing the clothes in the washing machine she used
to wash by hand, plenty of cloths
When I asked her, "Why you're doing like this?" she said:
I have a very bad past
so if I sit
doing nothing
My mind starts to think.
It remembers the past memories
so I go crazy, I cannot keep myself calm and happy
so I work, I do my physical activities
through many work, from morning till evening
so I cannot concentrate, my mind doesn't concentrate on the past
so it stays in the present.
After finishing the work my physical body is tired
so again my mind doesn't want to
think because it needs rest, my body wants rest
so I eat food, I go and sleep
I stay healthy so I become more normal.
Then I took myself back to my school days
I still I can remember all the practice
then I started slowly, I started with 10, minutes 15 minutes half an hour
And I started to engage myself into all the work
So when I started to practice pranayama and asana so my body and mind started to become
coordinated with each other well and
and my darkness started to remove
the lightness started to enter
because it just, the darkness disappeared.
so slowly, slowly then I
I felt more healthy.
I felt kind of there is new energy inside
I was just practicing by myself but later
I unexpectedly met my teacher
In a gym
His name is Federico
I didn't know ashtanga before, ashtanga vinyasa
So when he showed me the ashtanga vinyasa practice, I was just in wonder and I just loved it.
In the beginning I was just confused, "Is that yoga?"
then he said, "I will teach you"
but I took a long time.
So I said "I don't have money" but my teacher said, "You don't need to give money you can just practice."
"I will teach you."
I took a few weeks and then, I went one day directly to his house
on Sunday when he was in day off
I knocked his door, he came and he taught me a few
he taught me the Sun Salutation
and the prayer. So then I loved it very much.
I just felt in love with ashtanga vinyasa practice.
Then I said okay I'm coming from tomorrow regularly
So then I started my journey with ashtanga practice
My teacher taught me
Then he went back to his country. His country is Argentina
Then I started to practice myself, alone
So everyday regularly I practiced
Whenever I had a doubt I used to ask my teacher and he used to give me his guidance online
After I learned the ashtanga primary series some people asked me to teach
Then I was just worried because still I was learning
but later I asked my teacher and he said, "Okay I will help you. You can try. You have that capacity."
He just gave me a strong motivating word to start teaching
I just tried because whenever I was taking class with my teacher
I used to feel myself coming out and looking at myself
like observing my own body, and the adjustments, and how the body moves
I just transferred what my teacher gave me, I just gave it to my students
They liked it very much.
Then I feel "okay then, go forward, go forward."
Then I started to want to do a teacher training
With the Indian teachers, because my teacher is a western teacher
so I want to go more, understand more deeper, with our senior Indian teachers
Then I took a teacher training with BNS Iyengar,
Masterji. People called him Masterji, his name is Viswanath.
and Ganesh Kumar.
So I took teacher training from them
and then I understand more traditional practice, and the science behind yoga, and yoga philosophy
then I just keep teaching as well as learning
so whenever I get the chance to learn from the other senior teachers I used to go and learn
Still I go every month. We have a philosophy class
In our own language, sometimes in Sanskrit.
I go to the ashrams and I learn philosophies to deepen my knowledge and to understand
I also went to learn some basic astrology and Ayurveda
Because all these things were in a single system before
to treat the person
If he is ill mentally or physically
Because we cannot give the same medicine to everyone
Everyone's body is different, everyone's mind is different
Everyone is unique
So I started to find a unique method of teaching for individuals
Because I met many people who are suffering different problems
Sometimes the same way of practicing doesn't helps.
Sometimes, if the person is normal the practice is okay
but if the person is having different issues, health issues
we need to go and very technically to solve
This motivates me to go and learn
I'm happy, but there are many challenges that come every time
I'm happy because it's coming to me, then I think I'm ready to face this challenge
because whenever the problem comes it means we are ready, that's why it's coming
When the yoga started to come it means that I already have eligibility to practice yoga
I feel I'm blessed in this life
because finally I've come to the yogic path
in this life, so I feel I'm very close to my destiny, close to the liberation
And also I'm thankful to my masters and the divine powers
which have given me the energy to also take many of my students or people
to take them with me towards the liberation or the yogic path.
I'm very happy
It's a funny thing because when I was practicing my teacher raised kind of the same question
"Kushal why you are practicing yoga?"
I gave a funny answer to him
just because, it was not so serious but I just wanted to make fun
and I said, "I am very short so I need that yoga can help me to grow taller."
so my teacher said, even though I was funny but my teacher became serious and he said
"Kushal, first be happy with what you have. Don't expect. Have no expectations and practice
Even in the yoga sutras Patanjal tells
One has to practice with detachment.
Cause whenever we have expectations we always suffer
so then I
there is some light comes up in my mind
Yes my hands are good. My legs are good. There are no disabilities in me.
then my mind just turn inside and just looked
at others, where people are disabled, when they couldn't walk properly
when they couldn't stand properly. They are suffering everyday to
get up and to do their stuff, and they're depending everything on others
I think this was the first time I felt I need to help others
because when my teacher started to help me then
the same thing is transferred into me without taking the guidance from others
or how to start teaching
so the seed just started to sprout
and after a few months of practice my teacher said, "Oh you have a good practice, you can teach later."
so then I started to believe in my teacher's words
but I was not thinking to become a yoga teacher, because I started
yoga to heal myself, my mental illness and my physical
issues, because I used to get acute diseases
whenever the weather changed I always had a gift, from the weather. I used to get cold and fever
It was showing me that my physical health is very weak. It cannot resist the changes in the weather
And it was used to stay for a long time. If the cough comes it was used to stay for a long time.
If the cold comes it used to stay for a long time
So every time I used to suffer like, "Why it's happening? Why my body cannot resist?"
So then I understand that yoga will help
to duplicate my energy and it would helped me to resist
all kind of disease I can improve my health
as well as I can improve my spiritual health
After one year my health is completely changed
My body is completely changed. I was not getting sick
even if I get a cold after for 2 or 3 days it would go off
so it's not staying for a long time
so I felt nice
so then why [teach yoga]? because whenever we have a good thing we need to share
otherwise it just goes with me, because many people are suffering outside so if it is any
helpful so I think maybe it's good to share because if my teacher didn't share
to me, I couldn't feel, I couldn't have this life, I couldn't have this good health
So it's my responsibility to transfer to help who is in need
fortunately I got the platform, I got the place to teach. I got a few students in the beginning
I started with two students
I was just wondering, I didn't know people like it or not.
When people started to come, more and more, then I said, "Ok, if the people are liking it, if the
students wants me to teach, then why not? Start and develop."
There is no other
better job.
Then I think
if I get job like this in which I can help people
not cheat people
because I used to work in kind of call centers and hotels.
I always found many work and I always got frustrated because
my work is harming others. It's not helping others
But when I started to teach then I felt
"Oh here, this is my place, this is my platform."
so here my mind becomes happy. My mind is happy and my work is happy, so I can enjoy my work.
because when we don't enjoy our work we are not happy in our life
then I decided, ok
"If it is my place, if it is my job in this life,
make it wonderful. Do as much as possible.
Learn as much as possible. Help as much as possible."
I don't know how much I can do but I try. There is no limit, but I try my best to help
So this is how my teaching career started, through my teacher
Whatever I do now it all started with one word from my teacher
It changed my mind
It changed my way of thinking of life, and I stopped thinking
on myself and started to think on others so now I'm happy because I don't think
of myself so I don't suffer.
Because he's a teacher and he said,
"Kushal, be happy with what you have, first"
Then when I'm happy it's my responsibility to tell the same word to others
Because many people suffer everyday
"I don't have this."
"I don't have health. I don't have a hand. I don't have this. I don't have money."
The whole society always suffer, the people suffer because they always think
They don't have
They don't look at what they have
They always suffer because
we look every day, we look the world around every day, there is always something new.
people always get attracted, always think they don't have that
and every time,
if you take a vehicle, every year there is a new vehicle, every month there is a new vehicle
So if I don't have, if I'm not happy with what I have
then everyday I'd suffer by looking at the new things
so when I started to become happy then I stopped expecting
And I stopped suffering
So this is what Buddha said,
"The sorrow starts when we expect
The giving hand is always full.
The receiving end is always empty."
So whenever I wanted to receive my hand was always empty
When I started to give my hand was always full. I don't feel I'm empty
I feel everything is in me. So I have everything.
There is nothing to receive.
Then I feel I'm rich
I'm rich inside
even if people have money but if they cannot give it
from their hand to others, they are very very poor
Yoga is a science
through the science of yoga, one can live a better life
because it explains theoretically and it shows practically
how one will live better compared to who doesn't practice yoga
Yoga itself, in the scriptures, in the
yoga philosophy, yoga itself is a Samadhi
means the one will get the evenness of the mind
the Samadhi means,
"Sama" means "even." "Dhi" means, "mind or buddhi."
Once yoga is achieved the mind is completely in the equilibrium state
One doesn't
get fluctuated inside.
He stays stable. He cries, he loves
but he comes back to his center.
He doesn't get lost
He always comes back.
He enjoys everything
with more awareness
He doesn't becomes attached to this world
because according to yogic philosophy this world is not so permanent.
It's permanent and is impermanent. It's both.
One should understand this illusion.
To understand this illusion one has to understand yoga. One has to learn.
So yoga helps to look clearly this world.
Then he doesn't becomes afflicted by anything
even with his family, even with his body
Whenever he wants to leave he just leaves, peacefully, with bliss
We get attached always with the materialistic world, which is not permanent.
So when the person practices yoga, he becomes conscious
That's what we call yogic consciousness
You are always aware of this impermanent world
and the materials
When he is not attached he just,
when he knows he's just changing his dress he just happily goes.
When he doesn't know he's getting the new dress, he always cries and suffers to keep the old dress, old things
Once we know, once we have the clarity
that we are having the new life
the wonderful thing next
We don't become attached with the old things.
We just leave and we just go.
It's like a new vehicle
When I know I'm getting the new vehicle, I don't bother about the old vehicle,
so is the same thing, but to understand that one has to start practicing yoga.
For my students and all the people in this world
start, as much as possible try to find a way to
enter to the yoga practice
there are different ways of practicing yoga
I'm not saying you don't follow Buddhism, you don't follow Jainism, but
the essence of yoga is covered with all
to understand the innermost core of the soul
one has to go through his physical body
Because if the physical body is not fit
one cannot think about his mind and the soul
Mind is always disturbed when the physical body is in the hell
it's in the disease, full of disease
We cannot go inside
So in yoga we start to practice through asana.
Asana practice helps
to understand my physical body first
and understand my pain
so that I can understand the pain of others
so my mind starts to cultivate
slowly, slowly becomes more,
it understands to help others, understands to be aware of other's pains.
When the mind is cultivated nicely then the violence become less
When I understand the pain, I stop giving pain to others
This is how the society becomes healthy
and the families become healthy.
This is the one part
Once the people are happy with the body and mind
then only one can understand his soul
because we always have a Sun and Moon.
Body and mind.
The body represent the Sun. The mind represents the Moon.
We need
day and night.
if only day, if you are only exhausting you cannot relax
if we only sleep we cannot be active
so we need both to balance. Once the day and night, once the body and mind are balanced
we understand, we can see the new force inside
Then the talent starts. Then the art comes outside.
Then the world starts to become beautiful, when everybody goes more eco-friendly.
People start to understand themselves, understand the world
So they become in balance with the nature
Because we are just destroying the nature and we are getting problems
So by practicing yoga the man understands the nature and he starts to be in balance
Then naturally one can feel his soul
So if there is no physical health, definitely he cannot get the mental health first.
This is what the yogi scriptures say
means without the physical body one cannot reach anything,
If I want to eat, I want to enjoy the food, I want to enjoy the taste, I want to go
through my physical body, I want to go through my senses.
to reach the bliss
We all practice yoga to stay
we do many things, not only yoga, we do many things.
We go to the movies. We go for entertainment
to stay happy. I think I'll be happy when I see the movies, when I eat food that I like
but it is very short
I lose it again I try to go and have it again
Once I see this movie then I try something different which
that can stimulate me
but by practicing yoga one can feel the complete bliss
and it's long lasting
but it takes time
so one has to work, practice with patience by taking the guidance of the teachers
I suggest not to go and try just by yourself.
It's not bad but it leads to confusion on your practice
there are chances you maybe stop
or you get fear of practicing if pain comes
So it's not good to practice by yourself, in the beginning
try to take the guidance of a teacher first
Later once you master all the asanas you can do by yourself. You can make your own practice
So stay with yoga, it heals the soul.
Thank you
Thank you so much Kushal.
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Shivaya
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