“NASTI MAYA SANAH PASO
NASTI YOGAT PARAM BALAM
NASTI JNANATPARO BANDHUR
NAHAM KARAT PARO RIPUH”
TIADA IKATAN SELAIN MAYA (IKATAN DUNIYAWI)
TIADA KEKUATAN SELAIN YOGA
TIADA SAHABAT SELAIN JNANA (PENGTAHUAN YANG BENAR)
TIADA MUSUH SELAIN AHANGKARA (EGO)

Happy New Year to Everyone.

The New Year means the start of a new life on the principles of truth and non-violence. New Year means not to repeat the same mistakes made in the last year and making a commitment not to continue practicing the bad habits in life. The New Year means starting a new life with joy and a peaceful mind and forgetting the suffering of the past.

Every New Year offers a new hope for everyone, a hope of peace, togetherness, harmonious living and unity in diversity. We should learn from the sun that every morning brings the light for everyone. However, it is the same sun as has been seen for thousands of years. Similarly, the time is rotating like the sun but reminding everybody to feel something new every moment.

Recent economic recession in the world is not something new or for the first time for the human beings but human history has suffered and recovered from the great upheavals in the past. Similarly, the New Year 2009 is a warning and challenge to all mankind to change their attitude towards nature and its unmeasured wealth.

We have to be modern but also very simple.  Modern, means the freedom of mind; not of clothes but by borrowing others’ ideas as Tagore, the Nobel prize winner,  gave a true meaning of being modern “modernization is not slavery of the taste but the freedom of mind”. Once our mind is full of freedom then we can easily reach the highest goal of life and learn different cultures and knowledge from the different philosophers around the world. If we ever start following the path of simple living and high thinking, we will then not suffer a lot even though there are economic crises or any other problems but if we set our business empire on greed, it has to collapse one day because no one can survive for long on the basis of greed. Mahatma Gandhi rightly said that the earth produces enough food for everyone’s need but never enough for anyone’s greed. Therefore, it is the right time to control our greed and live a simple life with high thinking and this is the best way to overcome the recent global economic crises and harmonious living believing that the whole world is a big family.

Yoga is a universal in itself.  We should follow the path of yoga for healthy living and avoid consuming too many chemical medicines. If we practice yoga exercise, we can live a very healthy and peaceful life. Yoga is not sectarian and doesn’t belong to any practiced religion but it’s a very perfect science of healthy living. Patanjali, the founder of yoga, did not mention any mantra or particular name of God but he simply introduced the eight fold path to cleanse the body, mind and realise the highest duty of human beings, which is to contemplate on God.

Let us understand the philosophy of yoga, which is very universal, but if you think yoga belongs to a particular religion or those who teach this should open the text book of Patanjali ‘yoga sutra’,  then they will find that they are mistaken. Let us look into this fact by learning the text book of Patanjali and practice this path and then you will feel that you have developed greater peace, compassion and love for all during the practice of yoga. Let us celebrate this year by understanding the word ‘yoga’ means unity between all human beings,  unity with nature means protect the nature; and unity with the supreme energy means clean the air, water and food. If you have done so, this means you have celebrated the 2009 New Year foundation of love and compassion for our further generation to