In a supreme message on adoption of right approach and attitude, the bible observes (Mathew: 11, 30),”my yoke is easy and my burden is light”. Obsessive self-centeredness and carving for results generate disturbing and unhealthy vibrations all over, which act as impediments, though the working of spirit of the law of reverse effect, “the more you try, the more difficult it becomes”.
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Indeed, needless anxieties and frenzied scheming merely serve to ward off blessings and favorable developments that would have come about otherwise.
Just as there is a golden mean between trying too little and trying too much, the seeking aspirant has to strike a balance between being flippant or easy going and taking all things too seriously.(http://ibhav.blogspot.com) A very inspiring guideline in this regard is Benjamin Franklin’s observation on the virtue of tranquility, “Do not be disturbed at trifles or at accidents common or unavoidable”. In a highly powerful article (reader’s Digest: Jan, 1986),Anya Bateman points out that three words that often work magic in forming right attitudes, perceptions and approach are, “It doesn’t matter”. This healthy approach to those situations, which need not ever have mattered, is also the spirit behind the modern concept of cognitive behavior therapy.
More easily talked of then actually realized the attainment of this objective, according to yoga, is through regulation and refining, firstly, those aspects, which are under the aspirant’s direct control. Patanjali, listing ten obstacles to progress, also outline various physical and mental disturbances, which accompany these.
The underlying cause of these are addressed, in the above manner, commencing with just the prescribed self restraints and observance (yama, niyama) followed by asana and breath regulation (pranayama). Rooted in comfort and elegance, these indirectly bring about the needed control and clarity upon the entire psychosomatic system and the very approach and attitude. These obtain finally, for the the aspirant, the supreme virtue of equanimity termed by Bhagwad Gita (2, 48) as yoga itself. This also is the art of taking things and life by the smooth handle. This is not indifference or inaction but an abiding power, born of watchful and penetrative insight. Such approach, thus, is the art of right action (karmasu koushlam) and dissociation from needless suffering (dukah samyogah viyogah) other elaborations by Gita (2, 50; 6, 23) on yoga.
-Bapa Sitaram