What is Knowledge : Ch-4. Part-7

Chapter 4 : Yoga – An Integration of Consciousness.

Part-7.

Consciousness cannot brook the presence of anything outside it; the whole question boils down to this issue.

We cannot tolerate the presence of anything else, but we cannot help being conscious of there being something outside us also.

So, there is a tentative, artificial adjustment which the human consciousness makes with everything around it, which is what is called social concourse.

It does not mean that we are friendly with anything.

But we know very well that we cannot help it.

There are occasions when we cannot establish this friendly reconciliation with objects, for reasons known to our own self.

Then, we retaliate, and create a circumstance wherein again we are under an impression that we are integrated, in the sense that the object outside the consciousness is not there.

In circumstances where it is possible for us to abolish the existence of that object by absorbing it into our own self by love, affection, and converting it into a satellite, as it were – a subordinate of our consciousness – we are again integrated artificially.

'Artificially' is the word to be underlined.

A real integration is not established anywhere in human life.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..