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I tried to keep the language simple and from the heart. Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day to keep hydrated. In the writing of these poems, my practice was to inquire: What does it mean to be generous-to give time, energy, money, resources, praise, attention, support, Poetry About Yoga love? What does it mean to receive? Six times a day, I try to record my actions, words, and thoughts in six categories which parallel the yamas (codes of conduct) of the Eight Limbs of Yoga: protecting life (non-violence), honoring others’ property (non-stealing), sexual purity (refrain from sexual misconduct), truthfulness (refrain from lying), speaking in ways to bring others together (refrain from divisive speech) and speaking gently (refrain from harsh words). That’s why giving the Six Perfections is such an empowering practice, and why meditations such as Tonglen, the Tibetan meditation in which you take away another’s pain and use your own compassion to transform it, are so powerful, and why the best yoga practice is still the yamas and the niyamas- how we treat others and treat ourselves. They’re called perfections because we’re constantly led to practice these virtues until we "perfect" our human lives.

All of us have experienced painful events in our lives. The following authors, disciples and organisations trace their intellectual heritage back to, or have in some measure been influenced by, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. Come back and look through your list. It’s a poem I come back to again and again in my own practice and one that I regularly read out in class. And one day, as I was dangling in Downward-Facing Dog, the line of a poem came to me. I started to write the poems in Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By, as a result of my yoga practice, pose by pose, poem by poem. 1 best-selling Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By, Sacred Sanskrit Words (co-authored by Reema Datta), and most recently, Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections, for which all proceeds go to charities to aid those affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Over a decade later, in the summer of 2011, Stone Bridge Press published Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections, which is a kind of sequel to Yoga Poems.

Reprinted by permission of the author and Stone Bridge Press. It turned out she was Anne Cushman, author of The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightenment, and then an editor at Yoga Journal. If you have never been to NY, then you may have an overwhelming experience by visiting this place. I was fortunate to have given a reading in a small Northern California town, and after the reading, a woman came up and encouraged me to write more yoga poems. From LSD to the cultural revolution to the Rosicrucians to the I Am School to the Summit Lighthouse to Self-inquiry (non-duality) to love and devotion - bhakti - with priceless guidance from his guru Amma beginning in 1988. This is one man’s journey, spanning more than fifty years, through the brambles and the thickets; through the ancient halls of mystery, the pure emptiness of being and into the bliss of the Divine Light. How do we come to understand the concept of emptiness and potentiality, and how can it help us live a better life?

From one state a man comes out the very same man that he went in, and from another state the man comes out enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined. Can we see our neighbor as ourselves, the world and everyone in it as truly One? Can we approach our daily work with true joy and passion, no matter how humble or tiring? The best option is that try to include maximum fresh green leafy vegetables and fresh fruit in your daily regimen. My teachers inspired me to start the practice of keeping "The Book"-a daily journal recording my thoughts, deeds and words, allowing me to see how I am living in the world. In fact, an alternate translation of the second perfection, Shila Paramita, is "ethics" or "morality." This means watching your thoughts, words and deeds vigorously. Before he published his final translation and analysis, he wrote ten incomplete commentaries.