07/19/2020
Satya
The second yama (restraints) in yoga means truthfulness, not lying.
This is a challenging observation in the yoga path because it means to see things as they really are.
We as human beings tend to see things from our own perspective, background, programing, culture, mind, desires.
But to see things as they really are, it takes courage, wisdom and detachment.
The Self doesn’t want to see the truth, doesn’t like to hear truth from others. It gets triggered or hurt and tends to defend or attack, or get paralyzed. Truth is like a double-edged sword that penetrates hard and hurts more than the wound itself .
So when we lie, distort, or change the truth we send that energy to the Universe, the Wholeness. All those who are playing with the truth or create stories to manipulate truth contribute to obscurity and bigger lies.
Why is it so difficult to be honest? To not lie? To be truthful?
Like everything... practice, practice, practice. When we tell little lies, it becomes a habit and it turns into big lies. When we lie to ourselves we can easily lie to others, and creates a habit of lying. This creates and endless circle of lies..
How to change?
We need to start by ourselves. Telling us the truth, observing those things we can’t see in ourselves and accept them. This is really hard for the human experience, because we don’t like to see what we really are and need to change, the Self like to be right and therefore lie to itself, the self doesn’t like also that someone else tell us our truths.
Some remedies to cure a liar self is meditation, prayer, yoga, stillness.
Silence leads to stillness which is the door to observe things as they really are. We can access another reality. By habit and by practice we become aware, then more truthful and honest, and surrender the liar ego to access pure consciousness which is God, which is with in us and omnipresent. @ San Diego, California