{"id":206,"date":"2016-04-26T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2020-04-20T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:20:18","slug":"retreat-for-what-why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/retreat-for-what-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat &#8211; For What &#038; Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider-300x24.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cRetreat (withdrawal) is most basic law of Nature\u201d<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anything that has appeared under \u201cNature\u201d has to revert or retreat for disappearance. Appearance\/disappearance, birth\/death, good\/bad \u2013 are happening under \u201cNatural Law of Retreat\u201d. This retreat can happen in a moment or second or days or years, but that has to happen. That\u2019s why we say, \u201cWorld is impermanent\u201d. This is one of the basic truth (Absolute Truth) about \u201cNature\u2019s\u201d creation. One thing appears and apparently it stays for sometime as if not changing during its stay. But no, it is constantly changing during its stay. Finally it reverses back to disappear. It doesn\u2019t mean that the thing has disappeared for ever. Again it will revert back its disappearance phenomenon to appear again in the sight. So, we have to understand that nothing is permanent as it is now, but the phenomenon of appearance\/disappearance is permanent. One who is not accepting this <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>\u201cAbsolute Truth\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/strong>about \u201cNature\u201d is living under biggest <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Illusion<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, called <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Maya<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><u>Human Mind:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span> Mankind has lot many puzzles to solve in life at individual level. Normal questions are: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(1)<\/span> Why am I suffering? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(2)<\/span> Who lives in me? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(3)<\/span> Same world that gives me so much sufferings, why other people are happy with it? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(4)<\/span> Who feels pleasure\/pain in me while interacting with world? <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(5)<\/span> How to achieve a happy state?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Answer of all above questions is: <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Mind<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. In me, mind is living the life, mind has to go through all sufferings, if not lived properly. Mind feels the pressures of all stresses and tensions etc and manifests it on its subordinate, the physical body. My mind fails to achieve the state called happiness. What is happiness! Most of the time, common mind remains in agitated state, like sea surface with waves. The moment mind achieves unagitated state or calm state, we call this as \u201cPeaceful\u201d state of mind. Once an individual mind achieves the peaceful state, even for few moments, to whole human system, right from physical body to centre of consciousness, a feeling of goodness expands, as if mind has taken off all loads of living. This state is called <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Happiness<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Bliss<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Joy<\/span> etc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><u>Root Cause:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span> Most primary cause of agitation in the mind is, accepting the world, including self, as permanent entity. That is living under \u201cIllusion or Maya\u201d. With this state, mind interacts with the world and continuously stores the results of such illusory living and remains agitated. Intermittently mind realizes the follies, but non-stop onslaught from the world because of interactions don\u2019t allow any respite to work on it (its agitation). And this way life (mind) goes on. How to tackle this situation is a big problem for common mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em><u>Significance of Retreat:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span> \u201cGreat Realized Masters\u201d worked on the above said problems of mind. They came to following conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless non-stop external interaction with world is not stopped temporarily, mind will remain agitated and will never find peace.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agitation in mind happens due to illusory perceptions about the world and self. This illusory living distorts the basic code of conduct and regulation of ideal non-illusory living.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Illusion is in the mind and not in the world. World is existing under certain basic \u201cLaws of Nature\u201d. Compatibility with laws always brings peace and calmness to an individual mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<strong><em><u>Approach suggested:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/span> Masters advised that individual mind should retreat or withdraw itself, temporarily, from its normal way of interactive living with world for some period of time. This period depends on the state of agitated mind. Mind should withdraw to some isolated place where it can enforce strict code of conduct and regulations, as needed in ideal non-illusory living under watchful eyes of a \u201cPerfect Master\u201d, totally surrendered to his instructions. Under such living some agitation of mind starts disappearing and mind feels better empowered internally to sustain its newfound state. Continuously living in this retreat state, mind realizes the mistake in its actual living and ideal living. <u>Remember:<\/u> Mind learns by repetition, it\u2019s a natural law. So we have to put our mind to sustained practices until it comes out of its illusion. Periodical retreats are always needed to bring an individual mind fully out of its illusion. \u00a0The world will remain the same but free mind, realized mind will now have different perception about the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><u>What happens with the Mind:<\/u> This is quite an obvious question: What happens to a mind free of Maya? Masters say: In fact, fading illusion means more light of consciousness is coming to mind and mind is moving towards its centre of existence. Masters call this phenomenon as \u201cYoga or Union\u201d. Note: This capacity of mind to move towards its centre of existence is only available in human beings. But, because of illusion we move away from pour centre and suffer as human beings. But, because of illusion we move away and away from our centre and suffer.<\/p>\n<p>If needed, everyone should go for such \u201cYoga Retreats\u201d under a \u201cPerfect Master\u201d to achieve the ultimate goal of human life, that is: Happiness, Peace, Bliss, Ecstasy, Liberation\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/divider-300x24.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRetreat (withdrawal) is most basic law of Nature\u201d Anything that has appeared under \u201cNature\u201d has to revert or retreat for disappearance. Appearance\/disappearance, birth\/death, good\/bad \u2013 are happening under \u201cNatural Law of Retreat\u201d. This retreat can happen in a moment or second or days or years, but that has to happen. That\u2019s why we say, \u201cWorld&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yogakalyana.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}