There are quite a few people who get drawn into the Yoga or start living in spaces that are meant for Yoga without any conscious intent or active interest in the Yoga. It happens for a number of reasons such attraction to a person who is walking the path or to the place itself as such places seem peaceful and who isn’t attracted to a peaceful life. But after some time the attraction to the person may wear off in the natural course and the price of peace may be too high to afford. If by then the authentic fire of yoga, the fire of aspiration has not been lit and our personal contact with the Divine truth that one felt in the person or the place not established, then the difficulty arises. One is, as if left in the middle of nowhere not knowing what to do and where to go.
What is to be done in that case? One option is to go back to the normal life of average pitch and its theatre of loud deeds and outer pomps as well as its outer struggles and challenges. This is often not easy and surely not the best of options. The other is the practical option of looking at the whole thing as a matter of destiny and since one finds oneself in a strange field one tries to learn about it even if one is unable to practice it. Finally one can just trust destiny and God and accept and be with the flow while consciously learning and growing as much as one can with faith in the Grace and trust in the leading.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
