The Yoga
Teacher
Swami
Satyananda Saraswati
One of the
most important qualifications of a yoga teacher is a steady mind and a balanced
personality. If he is restless, unstable and caught within the storms of life
and emotional upheavals, then at the most he can only be a tutor. All over the
world there are hundreds of thousands of yoga teachers, professors, lecturers,
tutors and masters of yoga. Apart from transmitting knowledge, these teachers
should also give forth their personal vibrations, magnetism and spiritual
qualities. Otherwise when you attend their classes, you may learn many things
which you can discuss afterwards, but when you think about it, you feel that in
your spiritual life, or in the realm of your inner personality, you have really
gained nothing.
What can a
teacher of yoga give you? An experience and knowledge. Knowledge is confined to
the intellectual domain. Experience is what enables us to imbibe what we have
learned on a practical level. What is experience in yoga? Facing the situations
of life with peace, courage and understanding. Life is not a flat plain or a
simple path; it is a series of experiences of ups and downs which occur on the
economic, emotional and spiritual planes.
When you go
to a yoga teacher, you should not be intent on seeing his certificates. True,
sometimes certificates are necessary for opening an institution, but for a disciple
or student they are not important. Don’t look for certificates or the quantum
of knowledge a teacher possesses, but see if there is complete agreement
between the two lobes of his brain. In most people, the right and left sides of
the brain are always in conflict. What the right side thinks, the left side is
discharging. What the left side accepts, the right side is always criticizing.
That is the source of conflict in man’s behaviour. In order to become a teacher
of yoga there should be harmony between these two giants within the head.
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