The Most Important Principle of Yoga

This funny story is meant to tell us about an important principle in the life of a yogi: the unsaid law of association.
It is the nature of all conscious beings to take on the qualities of the environment around them. For example, when a human, or even an animal, [...]

By Rebecca J. LePage

On ocean breezes,
Windswept sand
Waves of vibrant light
With wings like swan
And heart of grace
Making pearls opalescent
I’ve waited for thee
When darkness falls
and light of day fades
I sense your presence
your gifts of infinite peace
and quiet mind
I float on supple clouds
With hands embracing
Orange, red tulips
You have arrived
Your coming was imminent
Because I knocked and you
Opened the door.
To [...]

By Abiyoyo Lorfes

I.
You speak in palindromes:
war is peace, peace is war.
To tell me
that someone is fighting
for my freedoms is to
regurgitate patriotic rhetoric.
To be patriotic
is to become emotionally
polarized on command
to an artificial cause.
My mind will not get in line.
My heart will not mobilize for you.
I do not accept your definitions.
I do not believe your [...]

BY ANONYMOUS

I think that politicians should be required by law to wear logos of their lobbyists on their suits, much like Jeff Gordon who wears patches of his sponsors.
||COMMENT BY MAHAT||
I am sensing fear in the above post. Perhaps I am superimposing my own experience? In any case lack of objectivity and lack of justice [...]

“The purpose of food is to increase the duration of life, purify the mind and aid bodily strength.This is its only purpose.” — His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

You have the freedom to think, the freedom to choose,and the freedom to evaluate as many possibilities as you can!. Your mind can be your own [...]

Prisoners are shackled by iron chains and balls. Living entities implicated in materialism are shackled by unlimited desires.
Thank you to Kathleen for the artwork. I, Mahat, found the following very appropriate, complimentary to her drawing. It is a short section from the Bhagavad-gita (6.4–10), the most famous Indian spiritual text.
A person is said to be [...]