The Vendor of Sweets Lesson Plan

R.K. Narayan was once quoted as saying "You become a writer by writing. It is a yoga." In what way could the sculpting of Chinna Dorai also be considered a yoga?

In answering this question, it is important for students to note that a "yoga" is a kind of discipline which helps a practitioner achieve a state of self-mastery and unity with a fundamental, transcendental reality. In India, there have historically been a number of different yogic philosophies and disciplines aimed at helping people achieve this, and only some of them have involved the kind of physical exercises seen in "yoga" studios in the Western world. Indeed, yoga in the West is a drastically denatured form...