If you can still the rippling of the mind, than you have experienced yoga,
Patanjali, Yoga Sutra 1:2 (paraphrased)
Say What crazy lady?
Just watch how your mind works. Observe how the desires come in and go, how thoughts and feelings, ideas and beliefs are always changing, fluctuating. When you notice these fluctuations, what do you do to still them?
Well, if you noticed ripples or waves in a lake ...how would you still them? Would grabbing at them, or pushing them away still the lake? Would diving in and drowning in them serve a purpose? No...it would just increase the rippling, wouldn't it?
Just step back, observe, and do nothing . As long as you are not attempting to fix what is not yours to fix, as long as you, as "a little me", are out of the way, allowing the lake do what it does...then the ripples will calm on their own. Step back, relax and let the mind do what it does without getting invested in any of it...and it will calm itself down. That is yoga.
An ignored guest quickly leaves. Yogananda's Guru, Sri Yukteswar
All is well in my world.
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