Intention + Action = Magic
Once upon a time, in a timeless time, long ago- a wise sage and devoted yoga practitioner named Koundinya was doing his morning tapas (discipline). Upon completion, he knelt down, picked a single blade of grass and offered it up to the god of his own understanding. The next day, Koundinya woke up, did his daily practice and offered up a blade of grass. Day after day, week after week, Koundinya showed up to his mat. One day, Koundinya’s wife approach him and asked, “Have you nothing better to offer your god than a single blade of grass?” Koundinya was quite perplexed by his wife’s question, so he picked up the blade of grass from his morning practice and gave it to his wife. He told her to bring it to the banker. Back in these days, the value of something was measured out in gold.
Koundinya’s wife thought it was a strange request but did as she was told. Upon her arrival, the banker pulled out the weight scale and placed the blade of grass on one side while sprinkling a tiny bit of gold dust on the other. The scale doesn’t shift. So he sprinkles a little more, and a little bit more, nothing happens. The banker then adds a little gold nugget, and then a gold bar, and another. Still nothing, the scale doesn’t tip. The banker is baffled and continues to add gold bar after gold bar until they are piled up all the way to the ceiling. Exhausted, the banker turns to Koudinya’s wife and he says, "I don’t know, why don’t you jump on?” The scale finally tips.
You see, the blade of grass was worth more than all the gold. The value was not in the external form. Koundinya had set an intention, and he offered his heart-the blade of grass was simply a representation of such. Koundinya’s wife was worth more than the single blade of grass from his daily practice as he had offered her his heart (his marriage) for for a lifetime.
To dive deeper-
Action plus intention equals value/pure gold/magic!
Who cares what it looks like- your yoga pose, your life, your external form. What is on the inside?
Show up. Do your work. Offer your heart. Receive the magic of living a life well lived.
