Union

Yoga is the cessation of movements in the consciousness.”

— Yoga Sutra 1.2, B. K. S. Iyengar translation

Yoga happens when there is stilling (in the sense of continual and vigilant watchfulness) of the movement of thought without expression or suppression in the indivisible intelligence in which there is no movement.”

— Yoga Sutra 1.2, Swami Venkatesananda translation

Basically, when the mind is clear and calm, centered and quiet, we experience Pure Consciousness – the True Self which we ARE. (Like the photo below, taken at Dream Lake inside Luray Caverns in Virginia.) The water is perfectly calm, so there is no distortion of What Is. This is Yoga. “Union.” Or “to yoke.”