The Yoga Way is the purification not just of the body and the mind, but also of the obligations.
You have to complete your dharmic duties.
You have to complete yourself.
You have to like basically live out to your fullest potential.
Seriously, how often do people ever really do that?
That takes a real dissection of the entirety of the personality - which is kind of complex.
So the yoga way is to get the business finished, here, so that liberation can occur.
I learned this on a deeper level by reading the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata where we see Yoga in action in the lives of great and small people.
We read of sublime supernatural experiences between gods and people recorded so elaborately by the author Vyasa in the Mahabharata. We learn how tricky reincarnation is and how we too must use our special Yoga powers to determine, discern, what our duties are and how they should be executed. We learn what our potentials are, to fulfill them, and to not be attached to the results of what we are supposed to do. That is not our responsibility. That it is the Gods - like Mother and Fathers - responsibly.
So we understand how yoga works by reading the Mahabharata and from within it the Bhagavad Gita conversation where Lord Krishna really breaks it down, revealing the true quality and promise of the practice.
That’s the Yoga Way.
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