My daughter has a goldfish in a small round glass vessel. She has named it Mooney. We noticed a very interesting thing about Mooney. When she sleeps, she remains almost stationary in the water and we come to know that it’s bed-time for her. But whenever we look at her for a little longer even from a good distance, she wakes up and starts moving. How does she come to know that somebody is watching her? Maybe some innate self-defense instinct. But how true is it with us too!! O

Yoga understands human beings as ‘multi-leveled beings’. We are Body; Mind; Emotions or Experience; Energy or Soul or Consciousness. These do not interact with each other directly. Prana is the all pervading phenomenon connecting all. Breathing replenishes Prana in our body as long as we live. Then, there is an area of consciousness beyond thought and emotions; a non-conceptual level of heightened awareness which can be explored through Meditation. Let’s understand this. Bod