Another meaning of the word yoga is “to tie the strands of the mind together. - T.K.V. Desikachar

as Francis Bacon put it more than four centuries ago, is that “the mind can be enlarged, according to its capacity, to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind.” — R.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

The source of my father’s teaching, and the essence of Yoga, was formulated by the great Indian sage, Patanjali, more than two thousand years ago in this succinct definition: Yoga is the ability to direct the mind exclusively toward an object and sustain that direction without any distractions.