The definition of yoga in sanskrit means to yoke, unite, to add. As a teacher and forever a student of yoga and life, this is a space that shares information on how you can unite, yoke or add yoga into your life. One of the lessons I wish to share is that yoga goes far beyond the mat. So, not only will this be a space to share postures and physical practice, but also "yoga bites" on everything else yoga has to offer.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
What is bliss?
What is bliss?
Today is Thought Provoking Thursday, I came across the Song of the Soul, in B.K.S. Iyenger's Light on Yoga and found a descriptive answer to this question. It is as follows...
Song of the Soul
I am neither ego nor reason, I am neither mind nor thought,
I cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight ever caught:
In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky-
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.
I have no name, I have no life, I breathe no vital air,
No elements have moulded me, no bodily sheath is my lair:
I have no speech, no hands and feet, nor means of evolution-
Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss in dissolution
I cast aside hatred and passion, I conquered delusion and greed;
No touch of pride caressed me, so envy never did breed:
Beyond all faiths, past reach of wealth, past freedom, past desire,
Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss is my attire.
Virtue and vice, or pleasure and pain, are not my heritage,
Nor sacred texts nor offerings, nor prayer, nor pilgrimage:
I am neither food, nor eating, nor yet the eater am I-
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.
I have no misgiving of death, no chasms of race divide me,
No parent ever called me child, no bond of birth ever tied me:
I am neither disciple nor master, I have no kin, no friend-
Consciousness and joy am I, and merging in Bliss is my end.
Neither knowable, knowledge, nor knower am I, formless is my form,
I dwell within the sens but they are not my home:
Ever serenely balanced, I am neither free nor bound-
Consciousnesses and Joy am I, and Bliss is where I am found.
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