A Holy Man

What does it mean to be a holy man? First let's define the term holy. Holy doesn't mean to be special. Holy doesn't mean to be perfect. Drop your concept of holy that has been conditioned in your brain by your parents and ancestors. Another word for holy is total. We should think of ourselves as total men and women ,not holy, which is a misconception. What does it mean to be total? To be total means not to divide yourself at all. It means to be able to see life as one in totality or wholeness. It means to embrace life, and all of its forms,, and all of its energies, in all of its so-called perceived difficulties ,with an open mind and heart. This allows lifes energies to flow through you instead of the normal egoic resistance to life that humans tend to be stuck with. In other words most of humanity is spiritually constipated. When life energy gets resisted and we get stuck in our minds and hearts and even our physical body, there is a blockage that is created in that energy. This is spiritual constipation. This leads ultimately, to spiritual death. It leads to the false assumption and conceptual illusion that we are just the things in our life. And when that constipation gets bad, we become completely addicted and dependent on the forms in our life. If you want true freedom and liberation beyond form ,you need to take a laxative on the spiritual level. That laxative is called meditation in all of its various forms. Yoga is a good beginning place for that. Yoga will pry open and release the energy that is trapped in your addiction to form consciousness. Yoga is a profound form of meditation. It is definitely a cure for spiritual constipation. Not only are there tremendous spiritual, mental, and emotional benefits to yoga, the health of the physical body is greatly improved as well. The ultimate goal of yoga is stillness. That is why yoga for thousands and thousands of years has been a path to be coming a holy man, or should I say a total man or woman. Ultimately the purpose of yoga is to unite your individual consciousness with the transcendent divine consciousness that created us all, and to feel a total sense of oneness with the universe and cosmos. That oneness includes all of humanity as one family. Living as brothers and sisters united in that one consciousness, true compassion, peace and joy will flourish on the earth. Let it be!!!