Dr. Patanjali J. Yogendra
A sculptor was at work. People gathered to watch him.
He was carving the statue of Athena to be placed at the Acropolis. The sculptor
was taking great pains to chisel the strands of hair at the back of the head of
the statue. Some of the onlookers commented, “When this statue is completed, it
will stand 100 feet high, with its back to the wall. Who will know all the
details you are putting behind there?”
The sculptor momentarily stopped his work and looked
at the person, “I will”, he said.
It is rightly said that a person’s work is a
reflection of himself.
It may seem momentarily that we have deceived someone
or gotten the better of someone. But when looked at in an objective way, the Karmic cycle over a period of time
balances it out. Satya therefore is
not only truthfulness to others but to one’s own self and happens to be one of
the earliest steps of Patanjali’s Astanga
Yoga.
Published in the June2011 edition of Yoga & Total Health Magazine.
