Attuning to the Bigger Picture

Integration

The Bhagavad Gita puts it plainly in the sixth chapter. Practise with determination and patience, and do not lose heart when success takes its time. Most of us know the other version. Something falls through, and the first response is frustration. Then comes the forced detour, the route we did not choose. And often enough, months later, the detour turns out to have been the better road. This sequence is built around that turn. The drishti keeps moving because the practice is not meant to feel settled. You look towards the back of the mat, towards the side, into directions you would not have picked yourself. Staying with it while it feels odd is the whole exercise. Nothing here promises clarity by the end of ninety minutes. What it does offer is practice at trusting a process while you are still inside it, which is a different skill from understanding it afterwards. If one thing carries over into the week, let it be that. The discomfort of an unfamiliar direction is not evidence that you have gone wrong.