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The State of Yoga: Returning to the Center of Our Being
The State of Yoga explores yoga not as movement, but as a state of being—where mind and body reunite at the center of our awareness. This reflection reveals how returning inward restores clarity, strength, and wisdom in a fragmented modern world, offering a simple yet profound path back to wholeness.
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In a world saturated with information, stimulation, and outward striving, the deepest knowledge has quietly been overlooked. The ancient yogic sciences remind us of a truth both simple and radical:
The most direct way to understand ourselves—and everything else—is by going within.
This inner orientation is not escapism. It is the very definition of yoga.
Yoga as a State of Being, Not Doing
Yoga, in its highest sense, is not a posture, a technique, or even a practice.
Yoga is a state of being.
The classical yogic view teaches that true yoga is the state of oneness—a condition in which there is no distance between body and mind, no separation between inner and outer, no fragmentation of awareness. This unified condition is sometimes described as omnipresence.
Omnipresence does not mean being everywhere in space.
It means being fully present at the center of your own being.
At this center, there is no division. The observer and the observed dissolve into one continuous field of awareness. This is the yogic state.
Omnipresence Lives at the Core
Contrary to modern assumptions, omnipresence is not something to be attained later or elsewhere. It already resides within us—at our core.
When we are rooted in this center, life is experienced as whole, coherent, and meaningful. Thought arises from wisdom. Action arises from clarity. Strength arises without force.
However, as the human mind expanded—giving rise to technology, civilization, and modern existence—it also created a critical imbalance.
The Expansion of Mind Without Wisdom
The mind is a powerful tool. Its capacity to imagine, analyze, and construct has shaped the modern world. Yet, when the mind becomes disconnected from the core—from the omnipresent state of being—it loses wisdom.
In the hands of power, a mind without grounding becomes dangerous.
This is where fragmentation begins.
Violence, exploitation, and destruction are not born from intelligence itself, but from intelligence separated from being. When the mind operates independently of the body, the breath, and the deeper field of awareness, it becomes abstract, restless, and self-serving.
The result is a world that is technologically advanced yet existentially unstable.
Healing Fragmentation Through the Yogic State
The solution is not to suppress the mind, nor to reject progress.
The solution is integration.
To heal fragmentation, we must return to the yogic state of being—uniting the mind with the body, and both with the breath.
One way to understand this is through a simple yet powerful metaphor.
The Transformer Metaphor: Superimposing Mind on Body
Imagine an electrical transformer.
On one side, you have an incoming frequency—the electric motive force.
On the other side, that frequency is stepped up or stepped down, depending on the design of the transformer.
Now apply this to consciousness.
The body, breath, and nervous system form the grounded, stable, lower-frequency side of the circuit. The mind, with its speed and subtlety, represents the higher-frequency field.
When the mind is superimposed onto the body—by infusing it with conscious awareness—the two function like a transformer, where the lower frequency of the body is elevated by being permeated with the higher frequency of the mind.
The body stabilizes the mind.
The mind elevates the body.
Frequency is refined. Awareness deepens. Energy becomes coherent.
This is yoga—not as theory, but as lived physiology.
Being Before Doing
In this integrated state, action arises naturally from presence. Movement becomes intelligent. Strength becomes calm. Thought becomes aligned with life.
This is why, in authentic yogic systems, being always comes before doing.
Before effort, there is awareness.
Before movement, there is breath.
Before knowledge, there is presence.
When we return to this state, we do not merely improve our health or calm our mind—we restore our connection to the core intelligence that sustains life itself.
The Way Back Is Inward
The yogic path does not ask us to escape the world.
It asks us to inhabit it fully—from the inside out.
By learning to remain centered, embodied, and present, we reclaim omnipresence not as a mystical idea, but as a lived reality.
And from that place, wisdom naturally guides power, rather than the other way around.
— The WayShower
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