Ravana

you know aversion.

Ravana taking a birth is with the aversion for Sri Rama that he want to eliminate Same way Kamsa,

Krishna's own uncle had a hatred or this thing aversion towards Krishna thinking that he is going to kill me.

So all those body which are being taken in the life is basically due

As well as in North India.

It's the place they say he bathed after he killed Ravana.

Okay.

And the Pandavas also visited that temple there.

He just picked up a mountain from the Himalayas and brought it.

And he played a stellar role in that war against Ravana.

And even after that, so his surrender was so complete that he didn't think he had done anything.

So after the war, when people were felicitated for their role, and Hanuman played a stellar role, so he was given a necklace of precious gems.

Then it is not your concern.

And therefore, Vibhishan had the guts to even leave when Ravana kicked him.

That's why I said, The world of opposites affect you.

Why? Because you are a magnet.

In that very magnet, in its centre is that iron which has neither got the north nor the south, neither attraction nor repulsion.

Such a meditator then sits in peace.

Therefore, Vibhishana, what did he do? Kicked by Ravana.

He didn't become depressed or dejected.

He was talking about it as a conditioning system that would make you more effective.

in life and it's the same way in which people were talking about yoga for similar reasons and the whole idea that the body could be harnessed leads to very different ways of thinking about what you can do with it and what might be compatible so getting strong is not the enemy of yoga so yogendra is almost the outlier by saying you know by building up my muscles i was encouraging you know a harming mentality rather than a non-violent one a lot of these other teachers are saying no build yourself up that's absolutely fine that is compatible with yoga but again i think it's because they're very clear about what yoga is yoga is oriented towards inner discipline and self-mastery so whatever strength there is is to be sublimated to this um potential for internal transformation and really that's a transformation of the heart so if you're going to get very strong you're going to be like Hanuman you're going to be the perfect devotee rather than some Ravana demon who's out there running amok in theory at least obviously people used yoga to rationalize all sorts of things and including Heinrich Himmler, to justify the Holocaust.

But when we get down to the real nuts and bolts of it, it's how you're approaching it and why.

And so it's possible to approach a weightlifting practice with a yogic mindset and to see those benefits as feeding into a transformation of the being.