Yoga Reminder: Lightened Reflections

if the mind is fully fixed and absorbed without distraction on the practice of āsana, for whatever motive, it can still attain fixity and stillness.

the ego function of the mind might turn any practice, tradition, or great starting point into an escape, a distraction, or even a political agenda. A sincere yoga practice can save us from this.

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to men of the East and to men of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest nee

This is not to say that practice and dispassion are not to be cultivated by the beginner, but that sattva is especially easily cultivated through the practice of kriyā-yoga. Once the mind is more sāttvic, it is more capable of remaining fixed in practice and dispassion.