The Guru as Mirror guru satyam guru jnanam guru anandam guru shantih My teacher is the truth, my teacher is the wisdom, my teacher is the bliss, my teacher is the peace. Often when a student talks about their guru, they say things like, “It was like they saw right through me. There is nothing…
Umā Devī
Jivamukti Yoga Focus of The Month~June, 2011
By Umā Devī

Practice and Non-Attachment abhyasa-vairagyabhyam tan-nirodhah (PYS 1.12) Identification with the fluctuations of mind is stopped by practice and wholesale nfl jerseys non-attachment. In sutra 1.2 of his Yoga Sutra, Patanjali defines the state of Yoga as the cessation of identification with the fluctuations of mind. Then in sutra 1.12, he offers a 2-step method for…