How to introduce your family to practice

Engage yourself first. Yoga says that a person who wants to fix the world, to free their loved ones, should start with themselves. If you change yourself, you will change at least ten around you. If you have a big family, you’ll change the big family.

If you are spiritually engaged, if you aspire to the Highest, then at a certain level of consciousness you begin to understand that everything is absolutely right and perfectly harmonious. You may not like something, you may not like that someone is sick, you may not like unjust laws, but in terms of spiritual vision, the world is perfectly designed and sustained. There is a cause-and-effect relationship in the world, and this is the law of karma.

Starting with yourself, you create a powerful flow of vibrations, and your environment will initially resist, because people’s egos don’t accept it.

For example, when I started my spiritual practice, and removed meat, fish and eggs from my diet, my parents were seriously wondering what I had got myself into and what I was practising. Many times people laughed at something that I took very gravely. However, we shouldn’t stray away from our loved ones or stay indifferent to their lives.