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is logical but remains conceptual to our minds until we experience its realization within ourselves.We should imagine them as blending from one into the other like the colors of the rainbow. But for convenience sake, and to aid us on our journey, yoga describes us in terms of these discrete layers. The human being is a continuum – there are no tangible frontiers between the kosas as there are no frontiers between body, mind, and soul.The practice of yoga teaches us to live fully – physically and spiritually – by cultivating each of the various sheaths.Yoga is like music – the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.We are no different in our deepest needs. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves – our cultures and classes.Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek the sunlight.It implies equanimity and ultimately that there is an inner serene core of one’s being that is never out of touch with the unchanging, eternal infinite. To a yogi, freedom implies not being battered by the dualities of life, its ups and downs, its pleasures and its suffering.

Oneness (integration) is the foundation of wholeness, inner peace, and ultimate freedom. We become the harmonious microcosm in the universal macrocosm.

Yoga’s goal is to attain the integrity of oneness – oneness with ourselves and as a consequence oneness with all that lies beyond ourselves.

Most people simply want physical and mental health, understanding and wisdom, and peace and freedom.

As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon the earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

As bearers of a divine essence, we are among the stars.

While we often think of these as the problems caused by the demands of modern life, human life has always had the same hardships and the same challenge – making a living, raising a family, and finding meaning and purpose.

I do not want yoga’s widespread popularity to eclipse the depth of what it has to give to the practitioner.

If you take up any noble line and stick to it, you can reach the ultimate.

Yoga could reveal to us our innermost secrets, as equally as it reveals those of the universe around us and our place in it as joyful, suffering, puzzled human beings.

Spiritual realization is the aim that exists in each one of us to seek our divine core.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.