Klesas (Obstacles)

“When your mind, which has been tossed about by conflicting opinions, becomes still and centred in equilibrium, then you experience yoga”. Bhagavad Gita, 2:53

Doubt is an obstacle. If you are free from doubt when climbing or practicing yoga, you will be strong and steady. “Yoga practice is like an obstacle race; many obstructions are purposely put on the way for us to pass through. They are there to make us understand and express our own capacities. We all have that strength, but we don’t seem to know it. We seem to need to be challenged and tested in order to understand our own capacities.” Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 1:30. It is the challenge and the obstacles that makes us feel alive! When we give 100% commitment with no doubt in our mind to a move in climbing, we feel this experience of equilibrium.