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EXCERPT from YOGA INSPIRATIONALS

DAY 17. Everything Changes: A Yoga Parable

mindThe people were fueled by energy drinks, but ripe with anxiety and unexamined ambition. The land was drunk on money and the illusion of freedom fired their imaginations. The eight limbs twisted in the wind of post-modernism and creative chaos.

In time, yoga prospered and many realized the teachers brought good medicine. It seemed to help prisoners, alcoholics, those suffering pain, and even angry youth. But some feared its power – especially its counsel to sit alone in silence.

In the counsel of quiet, someone passed a message about movement’s medicine and whispered that diversity is a source for creativity and road to enlightenment. A vision came forth of illusions in misdirected ambition, in Theodrama, and in the construction of culture and its false prophecies of comfort through technology and convenience.

*          *          *

Then someone at the ashram read a passage from Shelly, and a guru wept:

Life, like a dome of many-colored glass

 Stains the white radiance of eternity.

The gurus didn’t understand what had happened, and while nobody claimed credit, people awoke to radiance within. Westlanders didn’t want gurus. They didn’t read books. But they went to their mats and a world opened like the many petals of the lotus in a soft rain, and a light from the crown of their heads went out to eternity.

MEDITATION

Every happening great and small

Is a parable whereby God speaks to us

And the art of life is to get the message.

–Malcolm Muggeridge

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About Gregory Ormson

Author Yoga Song. Writing on yoga, motorcycling, music, the Midwest, and more. Beyond that, a human being working lyric narrative, playing music, traveling, learning, and breathing with intention. Like everyone, I'm a bit of stardust, a touch of shadow and light; and a drop of golden wrapped in billion year old carbon. Pretty simple, really.

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