Angelica Govaert breaks down Yoga Sutra 1.2, arguing that a distracted mind cannot make clear decisions. She warns that news cycles and media deliberately capture our attention to manipulate us, and that meditation is the only way to protect your mind from becoming an enemy of fleeting ideas.
One of the things that she said was that she feels like it's the yogi's duty to feel this certain way that she also feels, right? And what the Yoga Sutras actually say in Sutra 1.2 is that the yogi is not involved in worldly affairs. And that is in the Sri Swami Satchidananda edition, the blue cover that we all did inside of yoga teacher training. He says the yogi is not involved in worldly affairs. When our mind is modified, we cannot make clear decisions. Right? And these people in these news cycles are trying to capture our mind and our attention, which is why it's so important to meditate. They can make us an enemy because we believe something different about people who won't even exist in 100 years. Then they have the control over our attention and our whole lives.
