Our focus this week will be
on the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita is one chapter out of the Mahabharata, which is
one of the longest Sanskrit epic poems from ancient India.
To begin, the Bhagavad Gita
or the Lord’s song is an epic poem specifically discussing the very nature of
yoga and what yoga means. If you have been a student of yoga for a while, you
will know that yoga means to yoke or put things together harmoniously. But what,
you may ask, are we supposed to yoke together?
The Gita tells us that in
order to live a harmonious and happy life, we must yoke together our earth life
with our spiritual life. But again, what does this really mean? It means that
we should work towards creating our life on earth in such a way that it matches
our spirit or what is deep within. Here,
we should strive towards manifesting those things that are most important to
us. Those things that are most important to us are written onto our very spirit
itself.
Another way of thinking
about this would be to consider whether or not you are leading the life you
wish to lead? When we are doing exactly what we want to be doing in our lives,
we feel a deep inner harmony. However, when we feel like something is missing
or there is an emptiness, most likely there is a discord between what we are
doing in our earthly life and what our spirit is meant to be doing in our
earthly life. The goal is to make these things match or to make them consistent
with each other.
For today’s journal entry,
the first thing I want you to think about is what does what I have said above mean
to you? Do you feel your earth life and spiritual life match each other or is
there a discord of some type? Reflect upon whether or not you feel like what
you are doing in your life is what you feel like you were born here to do? This
is the first step.
Shanti
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