The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Interpretation
Yoga is about mastering the skills needed for a balanced life and healthy relationships.
Sri Chinmoy's quote emphasizes that yoga transcends physical postures; it embodies the skills necessary for navigating life's complexities. This includes managing oneβs emotions, fostering loving relationships, and maintaining peace amidst challenges, teaching us that true mastery of life comes from emotional and mental skillfulness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.
Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
At last _x000D_ _x000D_ He is healed of his self-doubt._x000D_ _x000D_ Now what is happening ?_x000D_ _x000D_ He is awakening_x000D_ _x000D_ To his souls ecstasy-sun.
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight
I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.
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