Triangle

Trikonasana (trik-o-na-sana) or triangle pose is another bread and butter pose of Yoga. Triangle is a basic hip-opening standing posture that stretches laterally and involves balance and strength of arms, legs, hips, core muscles and much more. In this pose both legs and arms need to be straight and you want to imagine that you are in between two planes of glass, that's how aligned and straight your body needs to be here. Keeping the front leg straight will stretch the hamstrings, using the weight of the body to intensify the stretch. The back foot should be turned inwards at a 45 degree angle and the front foot is at 90 degrees. The Drishti here is at the thumb of the arm pointed to the sky (same arm as the back leg) and the other arm is simply resting on the inside of the front leg. Eventually with practice you will be able to touch the front foot or even the ground and have your torso parallel to the ground and your spine still straight. The general alignment here is heel to heel and fairly wide, but this can be adjusted for individual bodies. The key to this posture is stability and balance and the idea that everything is stacked, hand over hand, shoulder over shoulder and a perfectly straight spine. Try and hold the posture for five breaths.

Gita Verse

Chapter 2 verse 55-57

Sri Krishna: (about the enlightened ones)

They live in wisdom, who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
Neither aggravated by grief nor hankering after pleasure, they live free from lust and fear and anger. Established in meditation they are truly wise. Fettered no more by selfish attachments, they are neither elated by good fortune nor depressed by bad. Such are the seers.

I think this is a very significant couple of verses. First off, the selfish desires Krishna is referring to are fulfillments of personal desires at the cost of others, and the sense cravings are those that are negative. For example, one may think that buying a pair of shoes might make them happier about their troubles. And while it might for that day, it does not solve the problem, nor does it make the person have no more problems. It's a quick fix. Those who are enlightened can get to the root of the problem and fix it or simply let it go, they have no need for retail therapy. However, just because they can get rid of things faster does not mean that they do not feel. They are still human, and human emotions will rise up, they are simply able to control their emotions, and not have their emotions and mind control them. They are not attached to anyone or anything. Again, this does not mean they don't love. On the contrary, they love completely and unconditionally, in a way deeper than most people can imagine. But when they lose someone their grief is less because they are not attached. Usually we grieve for selfish reasons, because we miss the person and we feel sad, but there is no selfish attachment here, so once the emotions are released, there is a realization that there is no reason to grieve because what is pure, free, whole and complete- as all beings are- is never born, and can never die. It is constant and unchanging. Those who are enlightened don't give up their senses, they simply master them.

Namaste.