Chapter 6 verse 23
“Let it be known; the severance from the union with pain
is yoga. This yoga should be practiced with determination and with a mind
steady and without despair”
In Upanishads, our ancient sages have sometimes explained
concepts through negation instead of enumerating what a particular concept
means; they talk about what it is not. “Na ithi-not that”. Likewise, Lord
reminds us that even though yoga means union of body, mind, intellect with the
immutable soul, it also means to severe oneself from the union of pain. As my
Guruji says, pain is inevitable, suffering is completely optional. To detach
oneself from the effects of pain is to be in yogic state of being. This mental
fortitude and determination to practice not to suffer due to pain inflicted is
also yoga. How can that happen? If we surrendered ourselves wholly to our
Guru/God, then everything which happens to us is just a passing cloud which
wets us with a downpour of rain but once the cloud passes, sun is shining
bright again. Nothing lasts forever, even pain and suffering!
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