“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all of the principles of Yoga.”
~ Yogi Kripalvananda
Do you agree?
It took me a long while before I stopped crying every time we chanted OM to end our yoga sessions. And I remember how I would struggle, to try and hold back the tears.
But the only way out is through.
In the end, the tears were all released. I just let them roll – slowly, effortlessly, unabashedly – down my cheek.
And guess what. No one ever laughed at me.
My sadness for humanity, including my own, has grown into compassion. Ache has been replaced with understanding. Yoga – offering yourself to join with the divine – has a sneaky way of opening the heart, of washing away pain and suffering, and filling you instead with tears of joy.
OM.
