Experience the Bliss of your own Being
The 3rd sutra of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is “Tadaa drashtuh svaroope ‘vasthanam” – “Then (referring back to sutra #2, see Benefits for the Mind) at the moment the mind becomes still, the seer abides in the bliss of his or her own being.
Ahhhh…..
Many people have a sense that there is ‘something more’ than just their day to day lives. Yoga, too, acknowledges this. Svaroopa, the name of this style of yoga, is a Sanskrit word, that can be translated as “bliss of your own being”. Your True Self. That which you truly are, beyond your job, your hobbies, your role in your family, and all the things that make up the ‘normalcy’ of your life. There is something more, and yoga acknowledges that – and calls it by many names. I’ll call it your True Self. It is your essence, the real you.
As you practice yoga, as your body begins to feel more open, and your mind finds a place of greater peace, you begin to feel yourself more fully. You experience your True Self – the core YOU. Less pulled out of that sense of yourself by everything that’s happening around you, you’re able to live more fully and express who you really are, from a deeper place.
This is Yoga, and this is Svaroopa. Dissolving the tensions in the body, and mind, takes you through levels of opening to settle into a deeper of your own Being.
So you can come home, to yourSelf. Your true nature is Bliss. This is the true meaning of yoga.