What is Knowledge : Ch-4. Part-23.
Chapter 4 : Yoga – An Integration of Consciousness-23.
Thus, you are to struggle throughout your life, and not only for a few months or years.
You have to lead a dedicated life of organically struggling – not mechanically striving – in order to establish this union with your own higher psychic forces, and finally with your own conscious being, until the finale of your conscious being becomes indistinguishable from what you may consider as an unlimitedness of achievement, beyond which you need not have to struggle to achieve anything.
These are difficult things for the brain to receive, and more difficult to put into practice in daily life.
But you will find that it is not so difficult as it is made to appear, provided you are sincerely asking for it – and not merely making fun of it, or mocking at it, or experimenting with it, and just looking upon it as an object of diversion, intellectually or sentimentally – because the aim of yoga is not an abstraction lying beyond the ken of your present living.
It is a solid reality, more real than the solidity and concreteness that you seem to be feeling in your own present state of existence.
You require a Guru for all these purposes, a living Guru, because if you are really honest in this field of practice, you will find, as you move further and further, that you will have to confront greater and greater difficulties because you are facing features of reality with which you are not acquainted, and the guidance of one who has trodden the path is absolutely necessary.
Any sort of egoism and a feeling of self-satisfaction born of unnecessary self-affirmation is uncalled for in yoga.
Utter humility, submission, and a feeling of sympathy with the higher values of life are necessary.
You will certainly succeed if you are honest and sincere.
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