In this week’s class we do some hip openers and contemplate the Bhagavad Gita in regard to following your dharma. Your dharma is basically the path you are intended to follow — the path of your heart. To do that you need to know yourself, know your heart, and follow what is right for you. So, that definitely doesn’t mean the path that necessarily makes the most money, or the path that you see other people follow that makes them happy. As Krisna says to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, “better your own dharma badly performed than the dharma of another done perfectly”.
Krisna instructing Arjuna in the field
Something to remember about following YOUR path, is it isn’t necessarily the easiest path. Arjuna wanted to find a way out of following his path as a warrior because he didn’t want to go into battle against some of the people he cared about. But what he was intended to do is to be a warrior, and so he would not only be failing himself but his army if you decided not to follow his dharma. I think this is something everyone has witnessed in themselves or seen in other people. Someone will be following what clearly isn’t their path for whatever reason, and it not only doesn’t make them happy, it doesn’t make the people around them happy either. At this same time, when you around someone who is really doing what makes their heart sing, the joy can be contagious. So, following your dharma isn’t just good for you, it’s good for the world. 🙂
I hope you enjoy the class – John