Steady Holding They Call Yoga
That steady holding of the senses they consider yoga. Then one becomes vigilant — for yoga comes and it also goes.
Do I imagine a calm once attained will stay forever, and so grow lax in the daily holding?
📝Reflection
Here 'yoga' means not a posture but the state of holding the mind steady and unshaken. Yet the last phrase is cool: yoga 'comes and it also goes.' There is no guarantee that a calm attained today will be there tomorrow on its own. So this knowing leads not to laziness but to wakefulness. As sweeping the yard once does not stop the leaves from falling again, the mind too must be held anew each day. Not completion but continuance — true calm is not a possession but a daily practice.
🌱Apply It Today
Do not scold yourself that yesterday's calm has scattered today; simply hold the mind anew, as if for the first time.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
