And now the Discipline of "All Life is Yoga!

And now the Discipline of "All Life is Yoga!" 
Happy International Yoga Day, Summer Solistice-Longest Day in Northern Hemisphere of Earth, it's a good reminder plus its Nirjala Ekadashi, Aam Gyaras, Gayatri Jayanti, and now coming to the discipline of" All Life is Yoga"
yes," All Life is Yoga " in its essence not necessarily in the forms which people tend to follow today. 
Like beer yoga? 
Like Hatha is yoga for the body?
Like bhakti-yoga is the sweetness of emotions alone? 
Like Raja Yoga is just "Breathe in, Breathe out"? 
Like Gnana yoga is just neeti neeti, or not this not that, Dwaita-Adwaita alone?
Like karma yoga means doing whatever I want to?

Like life is Leela and play and have fun, but karma doesn't exist and it will not hit/come/catch you back.

Like tantra is having sex or doing an occult prayoga trying to gain some siddhi, without doing hours,  days, months, and years of mantra Sadhana and elaborate other rules and methods and practices?

Like you can do 30 mins of Sadhana every day and go back to your old ways of living, oh no, not in all these forms.

Like Integral Yoga is the summation of hatha+bhakti +raja+gnana+karma yoga, yes in beautiful well-cooked vegetable khichdi but not as a mixture of shit mixed with chawal. 
Many things in their essence but not in the present form!
Discipline is foremost, not as an imposition, sab cheez try Karo, Karna hai toh Karo, and then you can say "Been There, done that"  and then, after all, you come and now the discipline of "All Life is Yoga"
All Life is indeed Yoga, but if the "All Life" is not governed solely by the Divine, until that if you say you are doing yoga, yoga in a very limited way almost defeating the very purpose of yoga.
You will be only deluding yourself, self-sabotage is so common in today's world that people feel it's okay, no it's not, and maybe then accept that you are stabbing yourself in the back and crying why does it hurt, why does it bleed! 
It's simple but not easy. 
Indeed "All Life is Yoga", remember not its present form but in its essence. 

कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं संसारसारं भुजगेन्द्रहारम् ।
सदा बसन्तं हृदयारबिन्दे भबं भवानीसहितं नमामि ।।

Karpura Gauram Karuna Vataram Samsara Sasaram Bhujagendra Haaram, 
Sadava santham hridaya Ravinde Bhavam Bhavani sahitam Namami. 
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