Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.
Interpretation
Yoga teaches balance in both physical and mental aspects of life.
This quote by Swami Satchidananda emphasizes that yoga is not just about mastering difficult physical poses (like standing on your head) but also about grounding oneself in reality and maintaining balance in everyday life (standing on your feet). The practice of yoga involves harmonizing both the body and mind, enabling an individual to navigate life's challenges with stability and poise.
In practice
During a wellness seminar, I shared this quote to illustrate the importance of balance in life.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! _x000D_ Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.
It's better to be kind than to be right.
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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