The Bhagavad Gita, "The Lord's Song'

After finishing my 200 hour RYT Intensive Teacher Training Course, I am taking a few weeks to ponder and read The Bhagavad Gita, a very famous yoga text.  No one is sure when it was written, but from what I understand, it's history is similar to how The Odyssey was handed down to us westerners (passed from one generation to the next through oral tradition),  but this text is one of the texts considered as a foundational Indian text for yoga practice and is full of inspiring and universal ways to find self realization.

This Indian text is deep, but any yogi who has dreams of leading a yoga class would benefit from the read. The roots of this text are from the literature of the Upanishads, a revelation text from the ancient Hinduism. According to my teachers manual from Sonic Yoga  "the word Upanishad combines the verb 'shad', which means to sit, with 'upa' meaning near, and 'ni' meaning down, which suggests that the only way to learn the truths hidden behind these revelations was to sit at the foot of his guru or teacher."

If I always stay curious in the remainder of my life and remained learning one new thing every day, I would be blessed beyond belief because the state of staying open and in a state of learning is one of the most important thing one person can do.  I mean, who wants to be around people that know everything?  I love this yoga!

So, I continue reading the Bhagavad Gita, keeping an open mind and a desire to learn moving me through the pages.  I think this is the first step in understanding the text.  Keeping my heart open and practicing the lessons in the book is an entirely new post :)