Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

certain asana, your brain relaxes, and you become quiet. This is the beauty of yoga. If you do Halasana (Plough Pose) your brain ...

ready to face the future fearlessly, and we are able to handle whatever it may bring. We also can control the dualities and conf ...

to drive locomotives. There is a saying that war is diplomacy con­ ducted by other means. It would be truer to say that war is g ...

will function perfectly in the morning. In other words, your car has a weakness, a defect, but with a little forethought and tro ...

To feel is a verb; it is something that happens. We all feel. Emotion is a noun, a thing. To feel is beautiful, belonging to bot ...

through personal love-the love of one other incarnate soul. Just as you cannot find illumination by jumping from one guru to ano ...

whatever they have to in order to bring the other partner along or to always return to the other partner. This is the only way t ...

But were we fanatics? Not to other people. Our ego had no attachment to forcing and controlling others. A passion for excellence ...

selves, perhaps he was rushing to the hospital to see his dying parent. In the West, people take everything very personally and ...

It is as if he had said he had been enlightened. I slapped him across the face. I knew he was deluded and simply tricking his pa ...

use our intelligence with all of our emotions, not just the negative ones. And yet even with hatred there is a positive. When I ...

to see. The ways in which our greed is destructive in our lives is more difficult. When we are greedy, we are never satisfied, a ...

than he could drive around with him as well. I tell my students that anyone who thinks that they are closer to me than anyone el ...

(vairagya). Practice involves tapas (the purifying fire of action). Tapas is nothing but disciplining the mind through the eight ...

Karuna-Cultivation of compassion toward those who are in sorrow. Mudita-Cultivation of joy toward those who are virtuous. Up ek ...

to feel good about ourselves, a sop to our own conscience. "I am a person of sensibility and feeling," we say. Without action, t ...

and quietness to our minds and our emotions with the retention of breath after exhalation. I have said that exhalation empties t ...

of this is that a deep in-breath produces a deep, full exhalation, and it is this that produces the calming and quietening effec ...

vated than we are, and by that contemplation aligning our own mind with that more peaceful and collected state. As we begin to w ...

pelling energy spins out of control. Military training works in the same way, which is why soldiers on leave and sailors on shor ...