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In yoga, we learn to quiet the fluctuations of the mind and emotions, allowing ourselves to reflect the Divine continuously.
In this video, Swami Nityananda discusses how being a yogi means observing your thoughts and emotions with calmness, maturity, and wisdom. As you practice this, your mind becomes still, like a clear mountain lake, and you begin to reflect love and peace.
Inspired by the teachings of Bhagavad-Gita, Swami Nityananda guides us to living in harmony with your mind and emotions through yoga.
Here’s one of our favorite quotes:
One of the definitions of yoga—one of the definitions of divine union—is that yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. So what this means is as a yogi—the Bhagavad-Gita tells each of us, “Be a yogi always”—whatever my thoughts are, I have the ability to be calm and mature and wise and peaceful in relation to those thoughts.
“As I observe and notice and appreciate and choose to be calm and wise and peaceful and mature in relation to those thoughts, the thoughts gradually become still. The waves of thought gradually calm. You can think of this as any image that you like, but one that works is a clear mountain lake.
“And so, if a wind has been blowing and there have been waves across the water, gradually the lake becomes completely calm and clear. And then the mind simply reflects all that is. The mind simply reflects the face of the Divine. The mind simply reflects total love continuously.
The same is true of emotions. So in the classic teachings, when the yogis are talking about calming the waves of the mind, they’re also including our own human emotions in that.”
If you have heard this teaching before, we invite you — as Swami so often invites us — to hear it as if you are hearing it for the first time. Often we receive these teachings right when we need them.
In loving service,
The Karma Yoga Team at AYM
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