Adiyogi: The First Yogi
By: Deepansh Palawat
Tags: Yoga, Energy, Mind, Body, Mindfulness

Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. The word Yoga first appeared in the oldest sacred texts, the Rig Veda and is derived from the Sanskrit root “Yuj” which means to join or unite.

According to the yogic scriptures, the practice of Yoga leads an individual to the union of consciousness with that of universal consciousness. It eventually leads to a great harmony between the human mind and body, man & nature. But who founded this art to know ourselves, when it was first introduced to us, and how it spread into the entire world. Today, let’s dig into history to know the source of Yoga.

The Unmoving State

Around 15000 Years ago a being appeared in the upper region of Himalayas nobody knew from where he came from, his antecedents were completely unknown he just sat unmoving without doing any activity for an hour and people were gathered around him because his presence felt so gracious. This unmoving state continued from hours to days to months on end but he didn’t even move a bit or said anything after some time people got bored and again got busy in their daily chores.

Saptarishis The Seven Sages

After watching this unmoving state for months there were only 7 people who stood there because they felt something miraculous with this being as he didn’t move a bit for months, the only sign of life was tears coming from his eyes apart from this he hasn’t done any activity no food, no water, no nature call nothing.

These seven people realised that this being has transcended his physical nature and broke all the limitations and compulsions of the body because without doing this it’s not possible to sit like this for this long period of time.

The First Yogi

They called him Adiyogi which means (The First yogi). After a few months, Adiyogi opened his eyes and saw these 7 people sitting in front of him, pleading with him to teach them how to be in this miraculous state.

Adiyogi denied and said “it’s not a thing of entertainment” and asked them to move back into their daily routines, but these people constantly asked him to teach them how to be in this state where he is right now.

After sometime when Adiyogi sees that these people are persistent to learn. He gave them some preparatory steps and then they prepared themselves for many years and then one day, when the solstice was shifting Adiyogi, turned south because the sun turned south so he turned south and began to explain the mechanics of being human.

World Yoga Day

History says that this day when Adiyogi spoke about the human mechanism, it was June 21st on this day we celebrate world Yoga day too because Yoga began on this day.

Then this understanding of human mechanics went into a process which we call Yoga, 15000 years ago he went into the mechanics of what it means to be a human and he opened up 112 different ways through which a human being can attain his ultimate nature.

Yoga Introduced To The World

Once he spoke about all the mechanics of the being human he asked these seven people to take this knowledge to the world and today we call these 7 people as Saptrarishis (The seven sages). One of them went to Central Asia another went to north Africa, South America, south-east Asia, one came down to what we call as Indian part of Himalayas, one stayed with him, and the one came to South as these seven sages have taken that knowledge to the world.

As time passed this knowledge was passed from generations to generations and many scintillating human beings came to this planet to revive that divine knowledge to attain our ultimate nature like; Maha Avtar Babaji, Lehri Mahayashya, Yogananda Paramhansa or Swami Viveka Nanda and many more their teachings are still very much fresh to the people not only in India but in many parts of the world.