By Gurudevi Nirmalananda

The texts describe that, if you are ready, really ready, you only need to hear the teaching one time and you’re enlightened.

Your ability to know God, your ability to experience yoga’s promise of Self-Knowingness is affected by how you have been conditioning your mind and body.

How have you been conditioning your mind and body?

If you’re relying on social media posts for your health advice and online exercise programs – you’re conditioning your mind and body to match up with society’s standards. Not yoga’s standards.

Society values dissonance, excitement, attainment, praise and pleasure.

Yoga’s standards are about internal coherence, peace, authenticity, self-recognition and bliss.

These all arise from inside. When you source yourself in your own Self, you shine with light. Divine qualities pour into your life, into your relationships and into the world. Jesus said it this way, “Let your light shine before others.” — Matthew 5:16

What society values is things that society can give.

Yoga focuses inward. All the yogic qualities arise from inside.

When you source yourself in your own Self, you shine with Divine qualities and pour them into your life, into your relationships and into the world.

This means you have to look inward, delving into the deeper dimensions of your own being. But however great this sounds, and I do hope it sounds great to you, it’s…