900 Hours of Re-Discovery A Memoir of My Yoga Experience - Part II

Bhavas shape our outlook to life

- Ankita sood

The Moments of Clarity There will be times when you experience absolute clarity, when not an ounce of material corruption will interfere with your goals, your decisions and your choices for the future. You will exactly know what is right for you, what you ought to do, what it is that your heart wants, what lies deepest in your being. The purpose will resurface like clear water, in stillness and in silence. The challenge will then come when you step out of the class, after those moments of clarity and into the world again where the corruption of mind is almost inevitable.

The Institute's learnings focus on the eight Bhavas or the attitudes that conduct our life. They say "as our attitude, so is our experience". Dharma, Jnana, Vairagya, Aishwarya are the four we have to cultivate and Adharma, Raag, Anaishwarya and Ajnana are the ones we have to keep aside. The right understanding and application of these attitudes make a positive change in our experiences. The bitter fruits of life can be transformed to life lessons and can help us move forward with self-reliance and the ability to have faith in oneself and the higher reality.