Toward a Better You

The first step is the hardest

- Dr. Hansaji J. Yogendra

The very first step in the Yoga Shastra is about morality - how we have to move ahead in life, what path to adopt. We do a lot of things very naturally. If something right did not happen, we get angry. When we see some benefit for ourselves, we even resort to lying. Thinking 'if telling the truth is not going to benefit, then why speak it? It is going to work out by telling lies.'

Somebody else does something, yet someone praises you for it and you take the credit, saying 'yes, I did it.' This is stealing. It may not look like stealing in so many words but you have taken away somebody else's credit for yourself. Someone may ask you, 'did you make this food?' You say 'yes, I cooked it with my very own hands.' You may have cooked the food, no doubt, but if the vegetable is tasty, it need not be only because of your cooking. It can also be that the vegetable was of good quality and fresh. There could be so many other contributing factors. Probably nobody disturbed you while you were cooking and so you were able to put in the right amount of salt.