Garudasana - konflikt og balance

Jeg har skrevet dette indlæg på engelsk, da jeg derved når ud også til mine internationale relationer. Beklager hvis det giver udfordringer. 

I do not want to take side in a war or conflict that I am not part of. How can I? If I am not in it - then how can I have an opinion about it? I can be the spectator at times, but my life goes on - and that is what occupies me with the ups and downs, challenges and achievements - in my life, the everyday that surrounds me.

This statement is very difficult to stand in. Mainly because of the influences from the world I am living in - all that influences me. I have come to think of it like this:

In yoga there is a position called garudansana. A challenging one-legged position where your legs and arms are winded, bound and where your concentration is on an infinite small point in the horizon or the floor as a beginning.

Why Garuda? You may or may not feel for yoga, mythology, buddhism or hinduism. That is alright. But you can listen to the bountiful stories from these cultures, and then make your own ideas, and opinions.

So Garuda is a giant mythic eagle. It is represented in many ways sometimes with red wings, the beak of an eagle and a human body. This posture is symbolising a presence, an extreme consciousness, a great charisma at the service of a supreme being, the god Vishnu. The bird ensures a continuity, an illuminated intelligence and a perfect balance that is necessary to fly over all possible obstacles. Much more can be said but this is the essence.

Each of us must "stand in" garudasana everyday in peace and war. And when I say peace and war I mean in all different ways - daily life can be seen as a struggle where a tiny unevenness of a skin surface can make a war in a teenager and where an exchange of a look can uplift a man who has lost everything and who is begging in the metro for a little food, so he does not have to spend his small money but can give to his daughter who is saving for a drivers licence. Think about it for yourself, what is just a detail and what is so large that it can make your day and maybe life wither away?

When things seem really bad and my world is falling and I feel overwhelmed and nearly touched in my deepest place, I try to ask myself the question: Is my life threatened? Am I in danger?

When things are not right according to the essential values of humanity - the essential values that we all abide to that can be summed up in one: The right to flourish as a human being - then we must act. Stand up - alone and together with like-minded people.

There is no need to take side - stand in garudasana and then think about what is the attitude and opinion you want to have. You will see, there are many others thinking like you. Let's be courageous and intelligent and stand in balance and make our judgement clearly known and seen.