yoga chitta vritti nirodha
yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind



Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Yogaha karmasu kaushalam

Satchidananda's Weekly Words this week are about how everything you do is yoga and when you do something, you need to do it with complete mindfullness and do only that thing. As stated in the Bhagavad Gita, "Yogaha karmasu kaushalam" which means perfection in your every action is Yoga.

It reminded me of my personal epiphany I had in teacher training several weeks ago about how yoga is not the complete clearing of one's thoughts--ie, think of nothing. It is the focus of thoughts on one thing, or steadying the random thoughts to concentrate on something.

To do this, it is setting ourselves on a path to do that one thing well.

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