PEARLS BEFORE SWINES

PEARLS BEFORE SWINES

YOGI ASHWINI

The saying ‘Don’t waste pearls before swines’ traces its origin back to the time when Gyan of Geeta was rendered by Shri Krishna. It has a deep meaning attached to it. How can we ignore the immense knowledge or rightly the Gyan that the people of that era had.

Yoga is a practice, which requires a very strict discipline and a Guru, and, if either is missing there can be no Yoga. It is said that the knowledge or the Gyan should not be wasted in front of the people who don’t value it. That is to say that Gyan should not be imparted in front of the people who come to listen to the discourse not with the aim of imbibing some Gyan but with the sole purpose of defying it or arguing on it or showing disrespect to it. These people are not searching, they are only looking to prove to the world how great they are and much they know, these are people who are ruled by their ego’s.



A lot of energy is lost in initiating a person on the path of Sadhna by way of shaktipath and if this energy is channelised towards initiating the uninterested or people in the path who are bound to leave it in between, then this energy goes waste.
The people who are not interested in the path of Sadhna are a mere drain on the energy of the initiator and are no good for the mankind. That is why it is even mentioned in the Geeta.

Today its surprising to see how people go about introducing the Yogic practices without proper instructions and without analyzing the individual’s capacity, to all and sundry.

Today through the medium of television, people are introducing some higher yogic practices which are becoming a fashion among the masses. These practices may be giving a feeling of immediate well being to the practitioner which is very short lived and which has the detrimental effect of disturbing the Kundalini. But since they are only a portion of the overall Yogic Practice, they do not take the practitioner to any higher level. They are just being introduced by people to gain name, fame and money. Beyond this they do not do any good to either the teacher or the practitioner.



Unfortunately, people who are teaching these practices only for their personal glorification, don’t realize the karmic implications of the said act and the negative karmas they earn for themselves as a result of this. Even if they do realize they still continue because they have been caught in the web of Maya and have fallen prey to it, this has been described as pitfalls in the Patanjali yoga sutras.

A real sadhak or anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of yoga would never have indulged in such a careless act. They go about making a mockery of such a pious and sacred path which only a few can adopt.



I myself had been a teacher of an ancient healing technique. I found that people were coming to learn this advanced technique to glorify themselves in social circles. They were learning not for service but to show how great they are that they can heal someone. This set me thinking that the purpose of yoga or any component thereof has to be much deeper than just being a subject of social discussions just because it is the in thing. I stopped teaching this technique of healing to get deeper into the true meaning of Yoga.



The practice of yoga today has become a subject for social discussion. It is elitist to proclaim “I do Yoga ….”. There is no dearth of people who for their own selfish gains go around claiming to be Yoga Masters.. Here we must understand yoga is not tying yourself up in Knots or standing on your head, yoga is a complete science of the being s evolution and the physical is just a beginning, if this were not so then we should be calling trapeze artists as yoga Gurus.
That is precisely the reason that it is so difficult to find true Guru and serious Sadhaks. For a Guru it is a huge responsibility to monitor the Shishya and mould the Shishya. This monitoring is done not daily, not hourly but every moment. Sir John Woodroffe, a renowned and serious Sadhak of Tantra in the early 19th Century in one of his books has said “ In the older times a Guru used to give diksha to only 10-15 disciples in his or her entire lifetime. Initiating even a single person requires immense energy and it requires an even greater practice to regain that energy. I wonder how people today go around initiating thousands of people all over the place…. and still at the end of it are prepared smilingly to initiate more, these must be superbeings far surpassing the ancient masters.”


This Gyan in the form of energy would flow only to those who have the capacity to follow the practice of yoga strictly as told. For anyone else it will be mere words.
This is why it has been said that sharing the deep knowledge of yoga with non serious and casual listeners is like throwing Pearls before Swines.