Pranic ramblings

If you are on here reading this it may be because you are interested in yoga. You may have been into 'it' for years or weeks. There's only one yoga as far as I can tell as there is only one 'water'. But as we know water can come hot or cold, frozen or in steam form but it is still water essentially.

In my opinion, and I think this is the general gist of it all; Yoga is an extensive vehicle for transformation. What 'you' are personally transforming is, well, personal really isn't it.

If you 'do' a slow deep practise, or a dynamic jumping around practise, at the end of the session you always come back (eventually) to you, or to be more precise, who you have become as a result of all the things you have done and have happened to you so far in this life.

Are you happy, sad, miserable, angry? Once you have decided which of these you are currently you can take a deeper look and ask yourself (perhaps) why this is the case. Actually if you are happy it's unlikely you will need to bother asking yourself why.

Acceptance/Resistance

Relaxation/Tension; And all the shades in between . . . make you/I/us/we/ they, who or what we are. The dynamics of who or what you are, or have become, rely upon numerous influences and according to yogic thinking there is at the background of all of these influenced ideas of yourself a 'real' and true self. This 'real' and 'true' self is called amongst other things the 'purusha', the 'higher self', the 'atman' etc, etc.

Ask yourself honestly, have you ever felt close to this aspect of you? Have you any inkling of what this thing may be? Do you care if it exists at all?

When you are next relaxing, instead of drifting off into a dream try and stay focused but relaxed and start to consider in an experiential way if you can get a glimpse of this pusrusha... . . . . .

Good luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OM