lesson from the bhagavad gita: “yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self”

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the core texts in Hindu tradition. According to Mohandas K Gandhi, ” self-realization is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. But its author surely did not write it to establish that doctrine. The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization. That which is to be found, more or less clearly, spread out here and there in Hindu religious books, has been brought to the clearest language in the Gita…That matchless remedy is renunciation of the fruits of action”

All kinds of people “do” yoga for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes I see people fervently chasing flexibility as if it was something you could just get and that’s that. Yoga practice has a lot of aspects to it. We get into the body through postures but that isn’t the end of the journey. I wrote a blog on how to make self-reflection fun. One of the things I said was If you see only the small self, your journey can be mired by insecurities and stress. When you elevate and nourish the perception of self, you are likely to feel that everything on the journey happens for a reason. I call it “research and development.”

Getting to know who you are in your body will give you a sensitivity to yourself on your mat. If you take this skill-set with you, you are all the wiser off the mat as well

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