My truth is that food, friends and family are the frills of a skirt, the actuality of the skirt has always been this mind.
— Not many are unfortunate to be this dissatisfied with life as I have been or rather am,
— not many are unfortunate enough to understand how melancholic it might seem to understand that the pleasure one gets after starving yourself for days and to get to hold the hand of your beloved is the same sensation with a varied frequency.
The more I think about it, the more I realise that I am always excited but not because of ‘new’ activities, rather it’s because every moment can be juiced to its maximum. Every moment can be lived in a very different manner.
Every moment can be made into the divine or the devil, but both require a lot of energy and so people settle for neither.
And now, Yoga.
An individual who begins yoga will experience its benefits. But he will not practice it enough to realise that it’s a trick. He will stop when he thinks he has the benefits, he will not realise that Yoga takes you to a place beyond benefits. You might have done yoga for a stiff neck, maybe for a bruised shoulder but if you keep doing it even after both are fixed, you might realise that yoga is much more - it ‘removes’ parts of you that you thought were yours, of course all of this is just a fantasy for those who haven’t begun their journey, believing it would be disastrous.
Do it everyday and you will notice that you are dying much quicker, but there will be an awareness that also makes you realise ‘the aspects of you’ which are dying.
Death is not you lying down, looking cold and stiff with some leaves stuffed in your mouth.
Death in a sense is to lose what you have gathered over the years. Things that you thought were yours but they weren’t really yours. Because you picked them up unconsciously, you assumed they were yours. It can be a fruit you lusted after, a personality trait that you found attractive, an individual quality that you disliked…you begin to get conscious of it and in that observation, there is dissolution of ‘that.’
If this makes you think that life becomes dry then you are mistaken. Life becomes conscious.
What most people assume they like or dislike, what they are attracted to and what they aren’t, what they think they are like and what they aren’t - they find it natural and ‘innate’ because they unconsciously picked it up from a person or an environment. The benediction of yoga is that you will now see and do this process consciously. The mind has a tendency to differentiate between what is natural and what is artificial based on much it wishes to romanticise it. For example - if you fall in love we mostly say that our hearts aligned rather than say that a few hormones fired up.
The latter is the truth, the former is a good story. Through Yoga, you can live with the truth and enjoy the story. But people suffer because they live with the story and alienate the truth.
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