Just wanting to lose/gain weight or exercising more, for example, will not give the desired results if the goals are not backed up by a concrete diet and exercise plan. So, let us not fall into this same trap in 2024 but work with something we can all do observe ourselves, get to know ourselves better. Just how successful businesses do an analysis of their strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, let us do one such SWOT analysis for ourselves.
"Where to start?" one may ask, but luckily we have one of the best teachers as a guide on our side none other than Patanjali, sage and grammarian extraordinaire and compiler of the Yoga Sutras, the timeless guide to our mind and spiritual progress.
In Sutra 1.30, Patanjali gives us a blueprint for our very own SWOT analysis, the nine Antarayas or obstacles on the path of yoga. Depending on how much Rajas (action) or Tamas (inaction) there is in our life, we will be pulled by either the first five obstacles, which are Tamas-predominant, or the last four, which are Rajas-predominant.
The first one is Vyadhi, or dis-ease - not feeling at ease in our own body; something is off and emotional or mental discomfort manifests itself in the body as a physical disease. Back in Patanjali's time and earlier, Yogis knew that 80% of all such diseases (or maybe even more) are psychosomatic in nature. So let us observe ourselves and check how much Vyadhi there is in our life - am I sick frequently, getting colds, coughs, stomach bugs, fevers, infections and the like? Or am I accident-prone? All these deserve looking into and analyzing to find the root cause. After all, the body is not subtle - if something or someone in my life is a pain in the neck, I will get a pain in the neck sooner or later.
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Pay the Price for Peace
Attachment or freedom? The choice is yours
Floating Through Life
When the going gets tough, the tough surrender
Sublimate your Emotions
Remember that emotion is ego in motion
A Lesson from Ravana
Reading between the lines
The Strokes of Daily Effort
What makes a good person great?
From Science to Pseudo-science - Part II
Where there is light there will also be darkness
The Trap of Reaction
Think, understand and only then act
Simple Is Best
We dismiss things as too ordinary and it is our loss
The Importance Of The 'Emergency Kit'
How to overcome difficult times by oneself
हृदय शुद्ध तो परेशानियाँ गौण
जिस मनुष्य का हृदय मलिन होगा उसमें ज्ञानाग्नि जलाने की शक्ति उतनी ही क्षीण होगी, जिसका हृदय शुद्ध होगा वह पल भर में ही आत्म-ज्ञान प्राप्त कर सकता है । यह आत्मज्ञान का मार्ग बहुत ही साहस का मार्ग है।