Dehino’smin yathaa dehe kaumaaram yauvanam jaraa;
Tathaa dehaantara praaptir dheeras tatra na muhyati.
Just as in this body the embodied (soul) passes into childhood, youth and old age, so also does he pass into another body; the firm man does not grieve thereat. 2.13 The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Sivananda
This is a self explanatory verse. One of my favorites yet! As humans we go through the cycle of life from childhood to old age. Wouldn’t it be nice if we stopped clinging to each stage and enjoy it for what it is.
As yoga practitioners who practice asana- who has not gone through a phase where the ability to do certain postures dissolve and become impossible as we grow older? The things I could do as a child is no longer a possibility when I became a young adult. And those things that I could do as a youth is impossible in the old age. As long as we can understand and accept that changes will occur only in the body, mind and intellect planes, then we are on the right path! We cannot fight these changes. They are unstoppable. But these are parts external to the core of who we really are. We are the unchanging awareness that lends sentiency to everything else. The practice is to remain established and firm in this truth. I am the unchanging aspect, underneath all the changing aspects! Gratitude🙏
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