Yoga Means Unity

Radhanath Swami

If we have unity, we can create unity. If our mind is in conflict, if our mind is not balanced with our body, and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. And when there are so many dysfunctional people, they may be simple people in the streets, they may be big, big politicians, big, big industrialists, but if they are not in harmony with their own consciousness, if their mind, body and soul are not one in interest in purpose, if they are not unified, then there's problems. There could be no real peace, there could be real no happiness, there can be no real love. That is what yoga means - simply to unite to unite the body with nature, that is Hatha Yoga; to create unity within the mind and the body that is pranayama; to create unity with the mind and the atma, that is Jnana; to create unity between the soul and God, that is bhakti; that is the complete yoga system, unity. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.