What is Knowledge : Ch-3. Part-16.

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Chapter-3. A Philosophic Outlook of Life

Part-16.

Yoga is the technology, the practical application of this knowledge in our day-to-day existence.

Therefore, yoga is living knowledge.

To apply knowledge to our practical existence in this world is yoga.

Yoga is translated as 'union'.



You must have heard that yoga is union.

With what is this union to be attempted?

Union with what is yoga?

It is union with the ultimate state of things, not with things as they appear.

We have unions of every kind here.

A businessman is in union with his money, a mother is in union with her child, and everyone is in union with what they love in any manner whatsoever, but this is not yoga.

A mother is not really in union with her child; it is only an imaginary union.

The rich man is not in union with his money; he is only imagining that it is a union – and so on with every type of imagined union with objects that we seem to possess but really cannot possess.



But yoga is not such a union in the form of a mere imagination in the mind.

It is an exact, practical entry by way of communion – in such a way that this union of ourselves with that with which we have communed abolishes the distinction between us.

Life does not anymore appear like a puppet show whose strings are operated by somebody else, someone who cannot be seen.

We know the secret of the drama of existence, and we cannot any more be kept in a state of ignorance of values – because ignorance is, in a way, our incapacity to recognise any vital relationship that we have with the ultimate state of things.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...





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