Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define asana as stable or steady and easeful–a “seat,” as asana originally meant in Sanskrit, suitable for meditation.
This posture helps us align our personal self with the universal Self.
One way to look at yoga is a path to developing and maintaining a steadier and more easeful “posture” in life.
Such a lofty intention, yet such a beneficial one for this mercurial life… steady, stable, and easeful during easy times… during difficult times.
Yoga is the path to such a possibility.
In meditation instructions, we are often told to refresh our posture.
Through breathing, mantra repetition, asana practice, chanting, withdrawal of the senses and meditation, self-study, following precepts that treat the life force (treating people and nature) with love and respect–in short, practicing any and all the limbs of yoga, we can reach for this intention and refresh our posture in life… for the benefit of ourselves…
and for the benefit of all!
The Every Day Yogi 