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v0.3: Focus on Yoga Practice

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यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वत: सम्प्लुतोदके | तावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानत: || 46||

To an enlightened person who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as is a reservoir of water in a place where there is a flood.

  • Bhagavad Gita 2.46

I am rolling back on my Vedanta practice and focusing on Yoga practice for the time being. Advaita Vedanta is subtle and I don’t have the mental stillness to understand those subtleties. So I am rolling back my focus to be completely around Yoga and disciplining myself around Patanjali's 8 Limbs first. While the Vedanta philosophy is what I ultimately aspire for I need to purify the body before ultimately focusing on the Vedantic philosophy.

This is in part a larger problem I am facing. The goal of Sadhana is liberation. But it seems now I am addicted to the reading of texts instead of the practice. The practice is what is important, the texts are ways to improve the practice. Over time as the mind achieves stillness that is when Vedanta and the pure essence of reality can be learned.

As part of this focus on Yoga practice I am fine tuning my Sadhana framework by focusing on a few key key teachers. I am working my way through their teachings and incorporating them into my practice. But at some point I will run out of the teachings to read and will have to focus on the practice itself.

I think that is the point.