What is Knowledge : Ch-5-13.

Chapter 5: Maintaining One's Position-13.

But we seem to be imagining a different world before us – a world that is totally different from the world as it really is.

The conditions of our internal existence, though they may appear to be mental for the time being, are something more.

Ordinary lay thinking will not be able to know what is actually meant either by peace, happiness or unhappiness, because the lay mind has a simple answer: "I want this.

I do not have it.

Therefore, I am unhappy," and: "I wanted it. I got it. Therefore, I am happy."

These are simple statements that people glibly make, as if everything is clear when these statements are made.


Your position is not merely the physical body's position.

Of course it is also, at the same time, the position that the mind maintains, but there is something more than even this.

The necessity for the body to maintain a particular position in yoga – or at any time, for the matter of that – arises because the mind has to maintain a particular position in order that you may be psychically happy and healthy.

A psychically unhealthy person cannot be regarded as healthy, though it may appear that the body is well fed and is maintained properly.

The need for a balance in the physical system arises because of its association with the mind; and vice versa, the mind is associated with the body.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....