Deborah Adele

Because like this is the second verse that like you develop this sense of clarity, right? That sattva becomes so much more prominent, and again, you discern the difference.

Can I share something? Um, it was on the commentary of, I know I'm, um, shaucha-ish [laughs] um, from the yamas and the niyamas from, um, Debra Adele, and I loved...

She, I just was thinking in my life, and then I read this, and I was like, "Oh, weird.

This is what's happening at my house right now." It said, "Cleanliness is a process of scrubbing the outside of us.

Sometimes he is.

But what I also loved in Deborah Adele, in The Yamas and the Niyamas, this particular yama, I have it all highlighted, dog-eared, everything from what she said.

I loved what she said.

It said, non-attachment does not mean that we don't care or that we somehow shut ourselves off from the pleasures and joys of life and each other.

I love the word delight.

So, you know, when we cling to something, we were robbing ourselves of that delight of the moment of the minute.

And something that Deborah Adele says that she goes, what possesses you, you know, what is it? Let me get it right.

What we possess possesses you.

It translates as surrender or devotion to something greater than yourself.

Or as Deborah Adele calls it in her book, The Yamas and Niyamas, which we have been following along in.

the jewel of surrender.

So Deborah describes this as being an active participant in your life, just totally present and fluid with each moment while trusting that something larger is also at work.

That is why the word has been translated here with the phrase to live a life of self-mastery and liberation.

And then if you look at the yamas and the niyamas, Deborah Adele says, and I love this, brahmacharya literally means walking with God and invites us into an awareness of the sacredness of all life.

I love that.

And it's really, it's so much.

But it's just to acknowledge that out of season... we're sort of out of season, like you're out of flow.

And the question of Brahmacharya is like, how do you align? How do you walk with Brahma?

There's something I really, really like what Adele, Deborah Adele says here.

It's like, are you eating the food or is the food eating you? And then, and then she says, or, you know, whatever is this, is the sex good or is, are you, you know, craving, if you want to take it to the literal end, sense.