Satya or truth can often be covered in many ways, in many layers of misguidedness or deceit. We cover ourselves up so much, we even start with our clothing. Veering away from the practical use of clothes to keep us away from harmful elements, clothing has become a deeply-ingrained barrier that separates people into categories. Who's wearing cheap clothes vs expensive clothes. Who's wearing trendy clothes vs clothes from many seasons ago. Who's wearing the same clothes and who wears it better, etc etc.
I am not suggesting that we do away with clothes. But I am putting it out there for us to consider how we have been hiding ourselves, perhaps starting with clothes. In the "normal" world, we think the clothes that we wear, our interests, and other things are channels for self-expression. But in yogic terms, digging deeper into the identity of what the Self truly is, these exact same things are coverings. We are not revealed by them, we are hidden by them. Not only that. We also cover ourselves with our expectations, or others' expectations. We cover ourselves with our fears and prejudices. We cover ourselves with a face that we put forward into the world, a mask of sorts, so we show the world one thing, but we hide-- either knowingly or unknowingly-- the internal world of our truth. There are physical covers like clothes and makeup, and emotional covers like the personality that we show others, and intellectual covers like the image that we create. Most of us use all of these to hide. Yoga practices ease us into Satya (truth). We slowly and inevitably purify our karmas, let go of our emotional defenses, we become more and more comfortable in revealing our True identity. We learn that what we show the world is nothing but a mask, and we start to take it off, and we begin to show our vulnerability and our nakedness. We start to come out from hiding and embrace our truth.
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