What is Knowledge : Ch-7.1

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Chapter 7: Yoga Discipline.1

While ‘the stabilising of oneself’ is what is meant by asana, or the assuming of a posture in yoga, it is often found by work-a-day people of the world that this maintaining of a posture, in any sense of the term, is not as easy as it may appear on the surface.

Many a difficulty is felt by seekers and students of yoga even in this elementary requisite of the asana or the posture which has to be maintained.
Many of you might have felt different types of difficulty in this simple exercise.

Common causes of this difficulty are sometimes attributed to one's non-habituation to maintaining a single posture or attitude in daily life, because most people have no single attitude throughout the day.

Remember that the mind and the body are not two different things.
The mind is not contained inside the body as something is placed inside a vessel.

When we use terms like ‘mind’ and ‘body’ we are likely to misconstrue their meaning and significance, as if they are two different worlds altogether with no inner relationship.

It is due to the difficulty of language that we are made to use two terms, ‘mind’ and ‘body’.
Actually, there is no ‘and’ between the two, because the body and the mind are not a plural existence, but a unitary existence operating in two facets.
Swami Krishnananda
 To be continued  .....


 

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