Keep faith in the Path, it will bring you to Light

Continuing the Series – Shirley Hately

“Keep faith in the Path, it will bring you to Light”

I have been practising yoga for over 35 years and teaching for 30.  My guiding and abiding Light has been the Path of Yoga.  Whatever has befallen me during those years, has been tempered by the Light of Yoga.  My Joy has been more joyful, my sorrow more bearable, my life more fulfilled.  Whenever we find ourselves struggling, reading the Scriptures will help to reach clarity and peace.  However, that is not all.  The way of a Hatha Yogi is to experience the body through asana, cleansing and purification. Purity of body brings purity of mind and lets the Inner Light shine forth.

Have you ever gone to a class feeling low, burdened by unwanted thoughts, actions of others, etc?  If you have been in the company of a true Yogi, then your feelings would have changed.  Through your practice resentments and difficulties fall away, revealing your own True Self, albeit briefly.   But when we do this regularly, without a break, over a long period it becomes our nature and we can see the Light.  We know without doubt that the Path of Yoga is one of incredible beauty, transformation and peace.
Lord Krishna, speaking to Arjuna says:

“From anger proceeds delusion; from delusion confused memory;
From confused memory the ruin of reason, due to the ruin of reason he perishes”
B.G. 2:63

“But the disciplined yogi, moving among objects with senses under control,
And free from attraction and aversion, gains  tranquillity.”