Going to live a life of Yogi – but in Action (YA!)

The world has been changing and so the life styles. I have been contemplating what would be best way to work and contribute in life and be useful to people. Today is my birthday and I am taking vow to live a life of a Yogi. No, I am not going to Himalaya and do ‘tapasya’. Rather, I would like to live a life full of action. I do not know how difficult or easy it would be to be Yogi in Action (YA!) in this modern world. I will give it a try. Of course, it will depend entirely on me but your good wishes and blessings will give me strength. Please do pray.

How to balance between two; being Yogi and being in action. Geeta describes the qualities of an Yogi, which has been beautifully summarized by Pujya Sri Sri. I am sharing these with you.

1.    He who sees inaction in action and action in inaction, he is wise among men, and he is a yogi, an accomplisher of everything.

2.    A yogi considers even his work as a game, so be a yogi. Yogi means ‘one who does things in perfection.’ Every little thing he does will be perfect because he has that equanimity of mind. Only when you consider your work as a game can you ever be detached about whether it is going to be successful or not. It doesn’t matter anyway.

3.    You have an intention or a desire and your mind and your life are running in that direction. When you drop this, then you become a yogi, then awareness, knowledge and wisdom dawn.

4.    If a person acts without being feverish about the fruit of the action, not dependent on the outcome of the action that person is the real renunciate. He is a yogi. A yogi is not one who has just dropped everything and is sitting in the Himalayas.

5.    Not knowing what is going to happen, keeps you in anxiety and stress. Not minding what is going to happen, give your hundred percent. That is the action of a yogi.

6.    One who rests in the inner happiness, in the inner space, immersed in the inner light -that yogi attains the Highest, here and hereafter.

7.    A yogi should be a close friend. Whether it is someone who hates you or who is indifferent to you or someone with whom you relate well to, who is related to you, or is a saint or a sinner -a yogi sees them all as the same, with equanimity

8.    A yogi is one who has a balance of activity and rest.

9.    A yogi is like baby and baby is like Yogi. In baby emotions does not stay long, they do not cling on to negativity, hence they are yogi. Their mind and enthusiasm is always fresh.