Day 5 - Cultivating Equanimity

Patanjali, an ancient and universally respected sage, gave his classic definition of yoga, "Yoga chitta vritti nirdoh" - "Yoga is the neutralisation of the vortices of likes and dislikes." The blissful state of union with God waits in the select calmness just beyond our likes and dislikes.

Equanimity is our ability to observe the outer world reality and the inner world experience as a response to the external stimuli and remain witness to the experience as it unfolds from moment to moment.

Our mind most often has something to say about the information or stimuli it receives. It is like a continuous commentator, telling us its preferences and opinions.

We, however, are not the content of the mind. We are the witness of the mind, and once we settle into this open-hearted space, we allow life to unfold from a source of much higher inspiration and divination than anything our little minds could conjure up.