Thinking of austerity, the third among five observances according to Patanjali, today I made an important decision (“The First Two Limbs of Yoga, Again,” October 29, 2012). Namely, I reversed my decision made earlier this year to install an air-conditioning system in my house, which has luckily not come to completion due to the indolence of the people I asked to install it (“Global Warming Be Damned,” July 11, 2012). I will bear with the weather, no matter how hot it got in the years to come. Rather than technology, yoga is the way around discomforts such as excessive heat. Having made up my mind on air-conditioning, I immediately lowered the temperature in my house, as well. What holds for heat must also hold for cold. Central heating be damned, too. Yoga is the only way. And observances are second among its eight limbs for a good reason.