Peace practices at yoga sublime studio are a way to generate compassion for ourselves and those around us. Monies raised this month are going to the Prince Albert women's shelter.
Thank you to all that attended. It is always nice to share these practices with people from the community and know will be helping those in the community - whether that is near or far.
During the class I read a little from an article by Birjoo H. Mehta, a long time student and teacher of B.K.S. Iyengar.
In it he gives a few definitions of dharma but the one Guruji often used and I have read in a few other of his books is dharma is that which uplifts, sustains, upholds those who have fallen, are in the process of falling or will fall."
Birjoo tells a story of how a number of Brahim priests were called for a feast.
He writes, "The host put a condition that while the priests could eat as much as they wanted they should do so without bending their elbows. So the priests being very smart fed each other. Because of this action everything was sustainable. Each person was fed by the action of others. A Brahmin did not feed himself. A Brahmin did not feed others to feed himself. Even if someone stopped feeding him, he kept feeding others seeing that the feeding of others had no connection to the feeding of himself.
No person is so independent as to be able to feed himself or herself. Every person is fed by others. And in turn if you feed others in a manner that it sustains this ecological state, the that action is dharmic. The only way you can acknowledge the bounty of the universe is by doing dharmic actions or actions that sustain, that support the ecology, the ecosystem. This happens only when you realize that you are entirely supported by the universe and not by yourself."
Thank you Birjoo for the wise words and for me a strong feeling of being part of something greater for the good of others.
Next Peace Practice is June 3rd with donations going to the Prince Albert S.P.C.A.
Namaste,
Pamela Nelson
Certified Iyengar yoga instructor
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