Yoga is Nothing

                 How can one fully define that, which of its nature cannot be. Through Yoga we learn that it is a numerous learning, understanding, and embrace of new principles and ideals only to reject them as baggage that will prevent us from achieving the final stage of Yoga, Samadhi, the ultimate union of mind and body. With that, it becomes abstruse to define Yoga as a singular concept or practice. “The habitual pattern of thought stands in the way of other impressions.” (Sutra 50. Book 1) With the eventual path of Yogic thought leading you towards embracing one as everything you must first realize that linear thought will only take you so far and eventually begins to devalue Yoga. 

                Yoga then will lead you on a path come to terms with paradoxes and be at peace with them. Everything, at once, it its totality within the universe is both everything and nothing at the same time. To reach this point you must learn to feel, not think. One's inward spirit must be in harmony with their outward action. 

It is not difficult to feel happy or sad for someone when you truly feel that way. But can you think yourself into happy or said? This is evidence that thought can get in the way of the true meaning behind Yoga that wishes for us to embrace these ideals. But as we do embrace them, we must remind ourselves not to cling to them. I believe that if you practice, practice, and practice Yoga and its teachings so rigorously you will loose focus of what you are trying to achieve. If both eyes are fixed to your destination, how will you find your way?