Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
Interpretation
Yoga teaches balance in both physical and mental aspects of life.
This quote by Swami Satchidananda emphasizes that yoga is not just about mastering difficult physical poses (like standing on your head) but also about grounding oneself in reality and maintaining balance in everyday life (standing on your feet). The practice of yoga involves harmonizing both the body and mind, enabling an individual to navigate life's challenges with stability and poise.
In practice
During a wellness seminar, I shared this quote to illustrate the importance of balance in life.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.
It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
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