Both the Gita and the Yoga Sutras (1.33) offer us advice on how we should treat others. In the Yoga Sutras we’re told that if we can cultivate an attitude of friendliness, and compassion to others, our mind will remain undisturbed…

We experience our world through our senses – our sight, our hearing, our taste, our smell, through our skin in our touch, taking this information from the outside world inwardly we attach feelings and judgements and craft our experience of life.

Hamish: ‘Oh so many to choose from. So I’m going with random opening of book to…’

The first line of this verse is very powerful at a time when humanity faces a reckoning with nature…

Whilst anger can protect and keep us safe when we are under threat, there is plenty of scope for the seed of anger to be watered regularly in the whirlwind of modern day living…

Whilst anger can protect and keep us safe when we are under threat, there is plenty of scope for the seed of anger to be watered regularly in the whirlwind of modern day living…

We come to yoga, a spiritual path, for many reasons.

18:78 is the very last verse of the Bhagavad Gita. At a glance it looks like a summing up. It’s more of an affirmation.

I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from this sloka over the past year. It reminds me that even though most things in life are out of my control I can control how I react to things.