Real yoga therefore is the cessation of the fluctuations of our minds. When the mind is still, one is in yoga. The very end objective is to meditate and quiet down. Not to stand on one's head (althought this does not have great physical benefit) . But because not all of us can just sit in meditation without our minds constantly talking to us, or our egos bombarding us with mental and emotional games, we need a discipline . . . and this is what yoga offers, beginning with our awareness and control of our body.
True yoga is internal cultivation of emotional steadiness, mental serenity and the awareness of the spiritual. When the thought forms of the mind cease to bother us, cajole us, sneer at us, and instead quiet down and disappear, them we are doing yoga.
Be aware, to say you practice yoga, is a commitment to a spiritual life, to a formative working out of your small
selfish ego, to an awareness of your spiritual presence here and now.
Yoga classes are mere practice sessions on mats for the real way of yoga should be practiced: Lived and integrated
in your daily life. After all, TRUE YOGA starts when the yoga class ends. . .
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