What is Knowledge : Ch-5-10.

Chapter 5: Maintaining One's Position-10.

Do you know that even if the body is robust, healthy, and perhaps happy, you can be unhappy for other reasons?

When you say "I am unhappy", you do not mean the body is unhappy.

It may be strong like an elephant, and yet the person may be unhappy for a reason which is not easy to know because if one could know why one is unhappy, one need not be unhappy at all.

One would throw out all the factors that cause unhappiness if this could be possible.

But this is not easily available.

The causative factors of unhappiness are not easily available to anyone because they sit on the very brain of the person and, therefore, the very thinking process is conditioned by these factors that cause unhappiness.

Thus, you find that the maintenance of yoga posture, finally, in the sense of the yoga system, is a hard thing to do.

This is why people had to work through the sweat of their brow for years and years to understand what all this finally means.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....