Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader

Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader : 

Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader Jay Kumar Copyright©2010 Living Your Light® www.livingyourlight.com Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Current Global Shift in Consciousness : 

Current Global Shift in Consciousness “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein. Likewise we can’t solve humanity’s problems by repeating the same story and paradigm by which we’ve been living. Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Crisis of Consciousness : 

Crisis of Consciousness The source of many of humanity’s dilemmas. A healthy body, healthy life, healthy community, planet, economy, etc. are all interconnected. Our general problem is to view them as being disconnected or disparate problems Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

OLD Paradigm of Consciousness : 

OLD Paradigm of Consciousness • Reductionist • Fragmented • Linear • Hierarchical • Disconnected from the greater Whole Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

NEW Paradigm of Consciousness : 

NEW Paradigm of Consciousness Holistic Totality Wholeness Interconnectedness Synthesis Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

Conscious Yogic Leadership (CYL) : 

Conscious Yogic Leadership (CYL) Become catalysts and leaders for change in the way humanity moves toward a paradigm that embraces wholeness – in health/medicine, economics, education and in business. This can be achieved by taking the core principle teachings of Yoga philosophy as a framework that can empower you, your community and the planet! Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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• Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader is not something that any one of us here can make you into. It is not an external thing, but something that emerges within. • It occurs in your body, mind, heart and soul. It all begins with your willingness to align your core essence to the universal principle of Wholeness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Yoga Can Do It! : 

Yoga Can Do It! Let’s Learn How Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BhagavadGītā: Universal Story of Healing Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Historical Background of BG : 

Historical Background of BG Literally means “Song of the Lord” Vedāntic text , different from Tantric yogic literature and the Yoga Sūtra BG as Metaphor/Allegory/Myth Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Part of a much larger work from the great Indian epic Mahābhārata Its core philosophical teachings are very old with various versions of the text being passed down orally. The version that currently exists was codified and written down around 500 BCE-200 CE? Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Main Points : 

Main Points How to live in this world and to perform our duty (dharma) as part of the Universal Order, but yet to practice non-attachment (vairagya) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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The physical universe in which we live is an illusion that is perpetuated by māyā, a veil by which we perceive to live in separation and fragmentation from Brahman and Wholeness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Due to ignorance (avidyā) and egoism (ahamkāra), we bind ourselves to this world through desires (kāma-tṛṣṇa) and our actions (karma). Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Our samskāras condition our perspective and perception of reality. They are the karmic filters that govern our choices and shape our world-view. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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As a result we fail to see the true nature (svarūpa) of ourselves as Ātman in Yoga, in union with Brahman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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We remain bound (bandha) to the never-ending wheel of death and rebirth (samsāra) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Liberation achieved by Yoga : 

Liberation achieved by Yoga Mokṣā (liberation) and release from samsāra through Trimarga – “Three Paths” outlined in the BG Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Karma Yoga : 

Karma Yoga Right Action (Karma Yoga) is essentially acting, or doing one's duties in life as per his/her dharma, or duty, without concern of results Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Jñāna Yoga : 

Jñāna Yoga Right Knowledge (Jñāna Yoga) is a process of learning to discriminate between what is real and what is not, what is eternal and what is not. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Bhakti Yoga : 

Bhakti Yoga Right Devotion (Bhakti Yoga) is summed up as a mode of worship which consists of unceasing and loving remembrance of the Divine…or remembering that you, everything and everyone ARE the Divine. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

How They Interact : 

How They Interact What links the three is knowing that ALL IS BRAHMAN and that YOU ARE BRAHMAN (AHAM BRAHMĀSMI). When this knowingness is embodied, only then one becomes a true Yogi/Yogini. Remembering Your True Self = Knowing Brahman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Jñāna (right discernment/thought)  Karma (right action/duty)  Bhakti (service to the Divine/recognition that All is/You are Brahman)  Dissolves māya/avidya/ahamkāra Mokshā (liberation) from samsāra (cycles of rebirth) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

This all happens in the body! : 

This all happens in the body! “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to find and dismantle all the barriers that you have built against it.” Rumi Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Awakening from Your Spiritual Amnesia : 

Awakening from Your Spiritual Amnesia Awakening from lifetimes of amnesia. Yoga is about remembering who you truly are. Know that you are Atman (the Spiritual Self) –Most of our problems arise from the illusion that we are disconnected from Brahman and our identity with the physical structures of personality and ego. The body is just a vessel worn by Atman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Defining Health : 

Defining Health Health – This word is etymologically connected to the words heal, whole, holy, hallow, hale, hail. Thus, in its original and universal semantic essence, the word “health” connotes “wholeness”. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Healing is the process that re-unites the individual back into his/her original state of wholeness and oneness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Illness/Disease : 

Illness/Disease A state when one is disconnected from the original state of wholeness/oneness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

The Quantum Doctor, Dr. Goswami : 

The Quantum Doctor, Dr. Goswami “…all our suffering comes from ignorance, ultimately. The ultimate disease, the root disease, is the illusory thinking that we are separate from the whole, which is what Patanjali calls ignorance. To heal the disease of separateness is to realize that we are whole, we have never been separate, that the separation is an illusion. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Māyā : 

Māyā The Sanskrit word māyā derives from the verbal root √mā/mī – “to measure, limit”. In this sense, māyā comes to mean anything that “limits” one’s view of reality, i.e. in the case of the BG that one is not separate from Brahman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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In the case of the BG, this “illness” is a result of māyā “the illusion of separation from Brahman” that is perpetuated by ajñāna (misperception) and avidyā (ignorance). Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Conversely, health is the reconnection back to Brahman, the Cosmic Wholeness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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HEALTH = WHOLENESS DISEASE/ILLNESS = DUALITY/SEPARATION Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

BG as a Texts on Healing : 

BG as a Texts on Healing Krishna – Cosmic guru, healer, physician Arjuna– Human disciple, student, patient Dharma – State of health that restores the individual back to one’s original state of “Wholeness”. It perpetuates the health of the human and proper functioning of the cosmos. Adharma- Disease that compromises human wellbeing and the proper functioning of the social and cosmic order Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Māyā, Avidyā, Ajñāna– Etiology/Cause of the disease adharma. Viṣāda, Moha, Mūḍha, Bhaya - Symptoms experienced by the patient, Arjuna, due to the disease adharma. Prapatti - The metaphorical anaesthesia by which Arjuna, the patient, completely surrenders his psyche and will to Krishna, the healer, to heal the disease of adharma. Dharmakṣetra - the metaphorical battlefield where the struggle between health/dharma and illness/adharma occurs. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Yoga is the Cure : 

Yoga is the Cure • Within the framework of the early Indian philosophical texts of theUpaniṣadsand the BG, yoga was the doctrine by which the individual achieves “union” with Brahman. • Cure for the condition, symptoms and cause of the disease adharma. This treatment of yoga is administered to the patient via the trimarga (karma, jñāna, bhakti yoga) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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• Just as it was previously discussed that the English word “health” connotes a sense of “wholeness”, the Sanskrit word “yoga” derives from the verb yuj- “to unite, join, connect” • Just as “health” restores Wholeness, yoga “unites” the individual with the Wholeness of Cosmos/Brahman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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In this manner, the discipline of yoga in its various forms that are advanced in the BG is a paradigm of health that enables the spiritual practitioner to unite with her/his original divine and cosmic state of Oneness/Wholeness with Brahman. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Dharma : 

Dharma The doctrine of dharma is the pivotal thematic axis of the BG. In the great epic of the Mahābhārata 69.59, Krishna states that, “The word dharma comes from the root dhṛ-, that is, to hold or uphold, and all human beings are held together by dharma. That by which the holding together (of all human beings) takes place is dharma.” Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Connection between Dharma and Yoga : 

Connection between Dharma and Yoga Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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• Dharma is, thus, that which “upholds and maintains” righteousness and the Cosmic Order and Wholeness. • Yoga “unites” you with Cosmic Order and Wholeness. It is the path that empowers you to live your dharma. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Adharma : 

Adharma Adharma is the cause of disease and illness. When the BG discusses the word adharma, it is referring to the state of ‘cosmic disease’ that plagues Arjuna and humanity. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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• Whatever creates conflict is adharma, and whatever ceases strife and promotes unity (Wholeness/health) is dharma. • Thus, anything that creates discord, division, fragmentation and disharmony within the individual, society and the Universe is adharma, i.e. cosmic illness and disease. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

How Do I Know My Dharma? : 

How Do I Know My Dharma? Dharma is not about the striving for perfection in life, but it is primarily about aligning one’s Self to the Whole/Brahman while experiencing fulfillment in body, mind, heart and spirit in all areas of life. BG 18, 47 - Superior is one’s own dharma, though imperfect than the dharma of another well performed. Performing the dharma controlled by one’s true nature, one acquires no injury (disease). Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Krishna as the Cosmic Healer : 

Krishna as the Cosmic Healer Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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In addition to Krishna being Arjuna’s divine guru, friend and teacher, He is also the “Cosmic Healer” and “Divine Physician” to Arjuna and the Universe. Krishna’s intention in the role of the ‘Cosmic Healer’ is to heal, not only his friend Arjuna, but also the world of the disease adharma, wherever it resides. By stamping out the disease of adharma, by any means at his disposal, Krishna then restores Arjuna’s dharma, i.e. what allows him to remain in health and wholeness to Brahman Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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In some of the most famous verses of the BG, Krishna admits that he incarnates into human form whenever the forces of ignorance, evil and adharma jeopardize the natural cosmic state of dharma. The Divine Healer, Krishna, descends into the world of mortals whenever there is an absence of dharma and the disease of adharma plagues humanity. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BG 4,7 - Whenever a lack of dharma exists, O Arjuna, (And) an emergence of adharma, then I manifest Myself. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

The Existential Battle : 

The Existential Battle Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Dharmakṣetra = The Battlefield of Dharma : 

Dharmakṣetra = The Battlefield of Dharma By looking at the BG as a doctrine on healing, the war being waged is actually an individual and a cosmic battle between dharma (health) and adharma (illness) Gandhi holds an identical view of the body as dharmakṣetra by saying, “The human body is the battlefield where the eternal duel between Right and Wrong goes on.” Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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The existential conflict on the battlefield of dharmakṣetra in the BG is the struggle for the psyche to become Whole and One with the Divine Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Prapatti – Surrendering to the Divine is the 1st step : 

Prapatti – Surrendering to the Divine is the 1st step Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BG 18, 66 – Relinquishing all dharma take refuge in Me alone. From all afflictions, you, I shall release. Do not lament. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Arjuna as the Cosmic Patient : 

Arjuna as the Cosmic Patient Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Illness and disease being commonly re-phrased by the term “health crisis” Health/Wholeness can be the positive result from a healing crisis – this is what happens to Arjuna. For Arjuna this “health crisis” existentially manifests on the battlefield as his crisis of svadharma Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Causes and Symptoms of Adharma : 

Causes and Symptoms of Adharma Causes of this disease of adharma are māyā, ajñāna and avidyā. Symptoms of this affliction manifested in Arjuna are viṣāda (depression/despair), moha (delusion), mūḍha (madness), bhaya (fear). Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BG 2,7 - My own being is afflicted by weakness of spirit. My mind is crazed as to my dharma (health-state). I ask you which is preferable, for certain? Tell that to me, your pupil. Restore me, I beg you! BG 18, 73 - My delusion (disease) is destroyed and I have gained memory (lifted from disease of ignorance and illusion) through your grace, O Unchanging One. I am standing with doubt gone (healed) I shall do your Word. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Yoga restores Health/Wholeness : 

Yoga restores Health/Wholeness BG 6, 23 - Let this be known that the dissolution of union with pain be recognized as Yoga. It, Yoga, is to be practiced with absence of doubt with an undismayed mind. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BG 6, 27- 28 – The Yogin whose mind is indeed peaceful approaches supreme happiness. The one, whose passions are calmed abiding with Brahman, is free from affliction. Thus, always uniting oneself, the Yogin, freed from affliction, joyously encountering Brahman attains boundless happiness. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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BG 18, 36 - Indeed, now this three-fold happiness hear from me, O Arjuna. That one enjoying through practice (of Yoga), suffering comes to an end. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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In turn, this connection with the Whole is ultimately what leads Arjuna and all of humanity to a state of health and dharma. It is the arrival at this place through the practice of yoga that ultimately enables both the freeing of the individual and of the cosmos from the disease adharma. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Conclusion : 

Conclusion It is via the ability to become “Whole”, i.e. healed, where one performs one’s dharma. What Krishna succeeds in doing as the Cosmic Healer is to release and heal the cause, symptoms and affliction of Arjuna’s existential “health crisis.” Arjuna’s crisis, is nothing else but his conflict over performing, not recognizing, his dharma. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Arjuna represents the individual existential struggle that wages within everyone over having to perform one’s dharma. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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If Arjuna were to abandon his dharma, Krishna admonishes him that not only would Arjuna remain in a perpetual state of ‘disease’ (moral and spiritual agitation), but that the entire Cosmic Order would dismantle into a state of universal malaise. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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When Arjuna beseeches Krishna with pleas of help, Krishna automatically assumes the role of the Divine Healer and administers the medicine to cure Arjuna of his adharma afflictions. The panacea to rid Arjuna and the world of the disease adharma is the BG’s exposition of the doctrine of yoga. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Arjuna’sprapatti acts as the prerequisite for the healing of Arjuna’s disease. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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The three forms of yoga that Krishna discusses in the BG are the three forms of healing that are successful in treating various individuals, based on their unique svadharma. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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For those who have a constitution geared for action, karmayoga is the preferred medicine. For those who prefer knowledge, they require jñānayoga For those who prefer devotion, bhaktiyoga is the medicinal agent. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Regardless of the specific variation in which the yogic healing becomes administered, the BG unequivocally states that yoga is the healing agent par excellence to cure the affliction of adharma (illness) and restore dharma (health). Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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The place where this healing crisis and transformation occurs is in the human psyche and body, metaphorically represented in the BG as the battlefield of dharmakṣetra. It is in the field of the human existence where the cosmic struggle between dharma/adharma, right/wrong, health/disease, good/evil and justice/injustice occurs. The existential conflict on the battlefield of dharmakṣetra in the BG is essentially the struggle for Arjuna’s psyche and being to become Whole, i.e. healed. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Adharma = disease caused by separation Dharma = health caused by union (Yoga) with Cosmic Oneness (Brahman) Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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The BG instructs that the path of yoga allows one to “hold firm” to one’s dharma, and that yoga is the cosmic cure to ward off this disease of adharma. It is through living and honoring our unique svadharma that we are eternally embraced in the healing hands of Krishna, the Cosmic Healer. In the BG Krishna reminds us that we are, have been and will always continue to be in true “health” once we recognize and remember our ‘wholeness”. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Just like Arjuna : 

Just like Arjuna IN CRISIS/ILLNESS when you are disconnected from the Whole IN HEALTH when you are connected and one with the Whole Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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This is ultimately the divine “healing” transmission of wisdom that Krishna imparts to Arjuna during the Gītā. It is the cosmic healing for all of humanity. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

As Yogins, you are HEALERS! : 

As Yogins, you are HEALERS! Our current worldview is “diseased” and is experiencing a global “healing crisis” as it operates within a paradigm that’s disconnected from the Whole. Your role as Yogins is to become pioneers as healers and leaders in the new shift in consciousness toward Wholeness. You first bring a Wholeness of Being to yourself, which then extends to others to become Whole = Health Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

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“Work is love made visible.” - Khalil Gibran “Yoga is love made visible” – Jay Kumar Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Crisis as Opportunity for Healing : 

Crisis as Opportunity for Healing “Within man is the soul of the Whole.” Ralph Waldo Emerson True for both individuals, society and the world Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS

BhagavadGītā as a Text on Healing : 

BhagavadGītā as a Text on Healing In order to be in health, we need to adopt a new cosmological paradigm that sees you as WHOLE with the cosmos. • Old paradigm of Consciousness = Separation from cosmos/Brahman  Illness • New paradigm of Consciousness = Union with all life and cosmos/Brahman  Health Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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As Conscious Yogic Leaders, you just don’t confine this to your time on the mat or when teaching a class. Being a Conscious Yogic Leader is someone who you are in every moment of your life – with your family, your community, your friends, etc. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Steps for Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader : 

Steps for Becoming a Conscious Yogic Leader As a CYL and Healer you live by example. Your role as a CYL is to hold the sacred space for healing to occur in your class, in your life and on the planet. Establish a core of dharma within yourself. Hold compassion for all those who may not be ready to make the shift. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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Your ultimate role as a Conscious Yogic Leader is to “heal” and restore yourself into your original state of Wholeness and perform your dharma in alignment with the Brahman/Cosmos. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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You all are pioneers in the new paradigm shift. Each of you already is a Conscious Yogic Leader and Healer! You now need to be a beacon of light for others to do the same. Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

ARE YOU READY? : 

ARE YOU READY? On Your Mark, Get Set… Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

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FLOW! Jay Kumar www.livingyourlight.com April 10, 2010; Bhakti Yoga Teacher Training Copyright©2010 Living Your Light®

Thank You : 

Thank You Keep on LIVING YOUR LIGHT and keep on LEADING WITH YOUR LIGHT! Consciousness Business Leadership Principles & Practices Spring 2010, CIIS