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Om
Namah
Shivaya
.
I
honor
the
divinity
that
resides
within
me
.
Then
I
repeat
it
again
.
Again
.
And
again
.
It
’
s
not
so
much
that
I
’
m
meditating
as
unpacking
the
mantra
carefully
,
the
way
you
would
unpack
your
grandmother
’
s
best
china
if
it
had
been
stored
in
a
box
for
a
long
time
,
unused
.
I
don
’
t
know
if
I
fall
asleep
or
if
I
drop
into
some
kind
of
spell
or
even
how
much
time
passes
.
But
when
the
sun
finally
comes
up
that
morning
in
India
and
everyone
opens
their
eyes
and
looks
around
,
Italy
feels
ten
thousand
miles
away
from
me
now
,
and
it
is
as
if
I
have
been
here
in
this
flock
forever
.
"
Why
do
we
practice
Yoga
?
"
I
had
a
teacher
once
ask
that
question
during
a
particularly
challenging
Yoga
class
,
back
in
New
York
.
We
were
all
bent
into
these
exhausting
sideways
triangles
,
and
the
teacher
was
making
us
hold
the
position
longer
than
any
of
us
would
have
liked
.
"
Why
do
we
practice
Yoga
?
"
he
asked
again
.
"
Is
it
so
we
can
become
a
little
bendier
than
our
neighbors
?
Or
is
there
perhaps
some
higher
purpose
?
"
Yoga
,
in
Sanskrit
,
can
be
translated
as
"
union
.
"
It
originally
comes
from
the
root
word
yuj
,
which
means
"
to
yoke
,
"
to
attach
yourself
to
a
task
at
hand
with
ox
-
like
discipline
.
And
the
task
at
hand
in
Yoga
is
to
find
union
-
between
mind
and
body
,
between
the
individual
and
her
God
,
between
our
thoughts
and
the
source
of
our
thoughts
,
between
teacher
and
student
,
and
even
between
ourselves
and
our
sometimes
hard
-
to
-
bend
neighbors
.
In
the
West
,
we
’
ve
mainly
come
to
know
Yoga
through
its
now
-
famous
pretzel
-
like
exercises
for
the
body
,
but
this
is
only
Hatha
Yoga
,
one
limb
of
the
philosophy
.
The
ancients
developed
these
physical
stretches
not
for
personal
fitness
,
but
to
loosen
up
their
muscles
and
minds
in
order
to
prepare
them
for
meditation
.
It
is
difficult
to
sit
in
stillness
for
many
hours
,
after
all
,
if
your
hip
is
aching
,
keeping
you
from
contemplating
your
intrinsic
divinity
because
you
are
too
busy
contemplating
,
"
Wow
…
my
hip
really
aches
.
"
But
Yoga
can
also
mean
trying
to
find
God
through
meditation
,
through
scholarly
study
,
through
the
practice
of
silence
,
through
devotional
service
or
through
mantra
-
the
repetition
of
sacred
words
in
Sanskrit
.
While
some
of
these
practices
tend
to
look
rather
Hindu
in
their
derivation
,
Yoga
is
not
synonymous
with
Hinduism
,
nor
are
all
Hindus
Yogis
.
True
Yoga
neither
competes
with
nor
precludes
any
other
religion
.
You
may
use
your
Yoga
-
your
disciplined
practices
of
sacred
union
-
to
get
closer
to
Krishna
,
Jesus
,
Muhammad
,
Buddha
or
Yahweh
.
During
my
time
at
the
Ashram
,
I
met
devotees
who
identified
themselves
as
practicing
Christians
,
Jews
,
Buddhists
,
Hindus
and
even
Muslims
.
I
have
met
others
who
would
rather
not
talk
about
their
religious
affiliation
at
all
,
for
which
,
in
this
contentious
world
,
you
can
hardly
blame
them
.
The
Yogic
path
is
about
disentangling
the
built
-
in
glitches
of
the
human
condition
,
which
I
’
m
going
to
over
-
simply
define
here
as
the
heartbreaking
inability
to
sustain
contentment
.
Different
schools
of
thought
over
the
centuries
have
found
different
explanations
for
man
’
s
apparently
inherently
flawed
state
.
Taoists
call
it
imbalance
,
Buddism
calls
it
ignorance
,
Islam
blames
our
misery
on
rebellion
against
God
,
and
the
Judeo
-
Christian
tradition
attributes
all
our
suffering
to
original
sin
.
Freudians
say
that
unhappiness
is
the
inevitable
result
of
the
clash
between
our
natural
drives
and
civilization
’
s
needs
.
(
As
my
friend
Deborah
the
psychologist
explains
it
:
"
Desire
is
the
design
flaw
.
"
)
The
Yogis
,
however
,
say
that
human
discontentment
is
a
simple
case
of
mistaken
identity
.
We
’
re
miserable
because
we
think
that
we
are
mere
individuals
,
alone
with
our
fears
and
flaws
and
resentments
and
mortality
.
We
wrongly
believe
that
our
limited
little
egos
constitute
our
whole
entire
nature
.
