Ishan Shivanand explains why people ask about Shiv Yoga's benefits but miss the point. The practice heals the entire system: body, mind, emotions, energy, and past beliefs. Real transformation comes from this deep work, not from quick fixes like painkillers that only mask symptoms.
What are the benefits of Shiv Yoga? This word benefits is a very interesting word. Actually, if we change this word to bribe, then it will be much better. Because when a person says what are the benefits The truth of the matter is, maybe somewhere in the heart the person already knows the benefits, but the person is asking for a way to be motivated. For example, a person wants to go to the gym. Now he knows what are the benefits of going to the gym, but then he asked the gym, okay, I have an option of so many gyms, why should I 'Come to your gym.' So the gym owner will try to bribe this person that, 'Okay, come to my gym because in my gym when you will gym, not just gymming, I will give you a sauna, I will give you a steam, I will give you protein shake, I will give you a very nice lunch. So come to my gym. There are so many other benefits.' So now this person will go to the gym but Trust you me, now this person will not do the exercises. He will go to the sauna, he will go to the steam, he will go to the lounge, he will drink the protein shake, and he will come back home. That is why when somebody tells me, how will you bribe me? What are your benefits? At that time, I do not understand who what to say, because a person will have different benefits that he is seeking. If a person is physically in trouble or turmoil, then even if I tell to that person the benefit of Shiv Yoga is enlightenment, that person will say no, for me benefit is physical healing. Or let us assume if a person is suffering from financial trouble, and if I tell to that person the benefit of Shivayog is healing, then that person will say, 'No, no, I want something that can make me successful.' So you see, a person is trying to listen to a keyword, but the truth remains That infinite will always be infinite. And the benefits of Shiv Yog are the benefits to the whole biology, physicality, and emotionality. Because we understand in Shiv Yog that your whole life, it is not just you, what you see. It is an ecosystem. Your body is interdependent to your mind. Your mind is interdependent to your emotions. And your emotions are again dependent on your body. So if I work on every single aspect of growth and evolution, then it is called Shiv Yoga. Because Shiv Yoga works on the whole ecosystem of being human. It works on the body, it works on the mind, it works on the energy, it works on the past belief systems. And when a person starts to get healed internally, then the beauty is that such a person will find that his body is becoming better. His mind is becoming better, and that person can easily focus on the meditation which will take him to God. But if a person says, no, I want shortcut— shortcut means symptomatic relief. Symptomatic relief is that, okay, there is pain in my body. Now the pain exists because I have fever. And that fever is because, let us assume, I have typhoid, and that typhoid is because of Salmonella typhi. So what that person wants is the immediate relief, that the pain should go away. The cause of the pain is the Salmonella typhi. So if I tell that person, see, Shiv Yoga will help you And that person says, no, I want an immediate relief, get rid of the pain. So that person can be seduced by a painkiller also. But you see, the thing with the painkiller is, the thing with the short-term symptomatic cure is that the moment the painkiller goes away, the pain comes back because the cause still exists.
