What is Knowledge : Ch-4. Part-15.

Chapter 4 : Yoga – An Integration of Consciousness.

Part-15.


Thus, the distance between ignorance and wisdom is the distance between you and God.

This is the distance between your present state of consciousness and that state which you are trying to attain in yoga.

So, be happy that you are really not far away from it.

You need not travel with visas from one country to another country; no such need is there.

It is sitting on your nose, and you have only to open your eyes that it is sitting there.

But, this is precisely the comfort that yoga gives, and also the difficulty that is before us.

Nothing can be more comforting than to realise that everything is with us, but nothing can be more difficult than to handle our own selves.

We can handle everybody.

The whole army can be handled by one man, but he cannot handle himself because the nearest thing is also the most difficult thing.

The nearer a thing is, the more difficult it becomes to understand.

Distant things, of course, lend a sort of charm and attraction, but when they come near, they become formidable objects.

And the nearest thing is your own self, and you are the most formidable difficulty before you.

This is why yoga is not easy, though it is the most comforting thing because you are handing your own self.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....