Yoga in Saskrit can be translated as "union". It originally comes from the root "yuj", which means "to yoke", to attach yourself to a task at hand with ox-like discipline. And the task at hand in yoga is to find union-between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student and even between ourselves and our sometimes hard to bend neighbours.
Yoga is an effort to experience one'e dignity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever. Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from the endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise.
Elisabeth Gilbert
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