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.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
And never resist a perfect moment.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't.
Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.
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