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Swami Vishnu Devananda famously said, "The goal of yoga is to still the mind. The method is mantra."

Start with 20 minutes and gradually increase. Consistency is more important than duration.

Elias was a man of the West, structured, cynical, and exhausted by the very efficiency he had spent his life chasing. He had come to India seeking silence, but instead, he had found noise—the cacophony of monkeys on the tin roof, the roar of the nearby river, and the deafening, chaotic roar of his own thoughts.