Skill in action is yoga

When aversion comes what happens? You are promoting it. Whatever you are averse to, you stay with it and whatever you crave for, you continue to crave for it.

 You allow the craving to continue. Without craving or aversion, moving through the guna is pure skill and that is yoga.

 It is said: ‘Yogaha karmasu kaushalam’ - the skill in action is yoga.

 Yoga itself means skill. Yoga is the skill to live life, skill to manage your mind, skill to deal with your emotions, skill to be with people, skill to be in love and not let love turn into hatred.

 Everyone loves in this world. 

 Everything loves, but that love does not stay too long as love.

 It immediately becomes hatred, almost immediately.

 But yoga is that skill, that preservative which maintains love as love throughout. 

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji