A Legend about Krishna tells that as a small boy playing in his garden with peacocks, a boon (a foretelling) was told to the King that Krishna would take over, so the King sent a snake to poison Krishna. The peacocks loved Krishna and protected him, swallowing the venom unaffected. Investigating this I found that peacocks can eat poisonous plants and snakes if they are well, they transform it into nourishment, I was surprised to discover that we too can ingest venom if we have healthy intestines with no perforations and it does not enter our blood stream! This held a strong symbolic message : the spirit of a creature able to digest life’s poisons and transform them into something good is surely a valuable one to emulate and that this is only possible when we are healthy on the inside. This process of inner transformation is Yoga , it transforms our whole system affecting our overall sense of physical and mental well-being and spiritual buoyancy, helping us to discover our own inner light and from this place we can digest and transform even life’s poisons into the most positive outcome.
