Equanimity is Yoga

Equanimity is yoga:

equanimity is yoga — those are the words that captured my attention in a recent rereading of the Bhagavad Gita. A similar passage is also found in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, which has also been part of my current interest and study. It seems that every time I go back to these books of perennial wisdom I am struck by another aspect that calls for me to consider and explore them more deeply now, as if I’m ready in a way that I wasn’t quite before. Every part of my practice has deepened over the past several years, I’ve devoted myself to understanding yoga though it’s most subtle meaning, and Krishna’s words to Arjuna invoked a strong urge within me, a desire to know more and better understand the equanimity of yoga.

I’m not new to this concept, it’s a quality that was cultivated for years through Shamatha meditation, a practice of concentration that leads one towards Vipassana or insight meditation. Yet it’s a quality that seems easily lost, forgotten, as life holds us in it’s sway, our minds readily absorbed through all of life’s passions and sorrows, likes and dislikes, pleasure and suffering. Yoga doesn’t tell us to be unmoved by any of this, but to simply return to center, beingness, our original nature.

equanimity is yoga.

this is clearly demonstrated through asanas, movement, and how we so easily fall out of…