Yoga doesn’t promise that you’ll be free from pain. Yoga promises that you will live in the bliss of your own Beingness. What do you want to focus on, even while the pain is there? Yoga gives you the skill to shift your internal gaze to whatever you choose. While you focus on the greater Reality within, yoga also offers many simple yet powerful tools for pain. Still, life doesn’t become perfect, and the world’s pain doesn’t go away. In fact, pain is the motivator that makes people change. The guru’s job is not to get rid of your pain but to free you from your limited idea of yourself.