Do Yoga!!! Be Healthy!!!

Yoga is the mind without vrittis is pure understanding, a mirror reflecting the Divine nature of the self. It is the emotional charge of the kleshas that generates the disturbing thought waves. The root Klesha, ignorance, is maintained by a vast network of roots of unconscious desires imbedded in the depths of our minds. We only recognize them when they swirl up in our consciousness manifesting as disturbing emotions such as arrogance, lust, greed, fear, jealousy, anger, hatred and prejudice. The emotionally charged vasanas sit like land mines waiting to explode into our conscious minds when they come into contact with corresponding sense objects defined by the ego as objects of raga or dwesha. The potent antidote for all of the kleshas is unbroken discriminative knowledge. With awareness, we can catch the mind from falling into negative habit energy of attachment and fear. With awareness, even if we slip into the pain generating habits, we learn to practice vairagya and the whole afflictive drama is nipped in the bud. To maintain unbroken discrimination requires purity of mind and one pointed concentration. These skills are most difficult for the untrained mind and must be developed by step by step. If we are not mindful, the pastry attachment can become an addiction.