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that’s some satya you got there

kim on 1:07 pm November 2nd, 2006 / 5 Comments »

i’ll be the first to say that though i love the sounds of sanskrit and prefer to use the few words i know in class to describe poses and concepts, i am no Sanskrit scholar.

that’s why i could be wrong in breaking down the word “satya,” which means truth and is one of the main tenets of yoga.

sat
being, existence; Pure Existence; the thing that truly is; the right, the highest or best or real good.

ya
production

as i understand it, then, when a human being the produces truth, s/he is practicing satya. when you speak, write, or otherwise communicate, on a basic energetic level, the idea is not to lie or hide the thing that truly is. that’s why i’ve been confused and a little disturbed this morning to be reading information, or lack of it, on the bombing of camp falcon, south of baghdad, october 10-11.

this link from a friend is what got me trolling through sites originally, and per my naive post two days ago, it could be that i’m so pollyanna as to be dismayed that even my heroes at google appear to be complicit with this un-satya-like attempt to keep the information about 300 dead u.s. soldiers under wraps.