What is Knowledge : Ch-5-20.

Chapter 5: Maintaining One's Position-20.

It is a mutual cooperation that is taking place in an organic manner, and not merely as a cooperation of two friends.

There are no two individuals here.

To the system of yoga, at least, the human individual and the universe are not two things.

 And again, to bring in the analogy of the human organism, your fingers and toes, and your own body, are not two things.

It is one thing only that we refer to by two different terms.


If the world and you are not two different things, your growth is conditioned entirely by the system that the world maintains.

Thus, the position maintained in yoga – the so-called asana – is, of course, a physical position, because the physical world and the physical body are both there; but remember that the physical position is not the entire position of yours because – to repeat again – the body may be maintaining a so-called balance but, at the same time, the mind may be imbalanced.


It may look that the imbalanced mind is maintaining a physical balance, but this is not yoga exercise because the exercise called yoga asana is the posture that 'you' maintain, and not merely the posture that the body maintains.

And what are 'you'?

Think a little bit about what you are.

It is of course true that whatever you are is associated with this little physical body, but you are inseparably related to many other things also as a citizen of the universe.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....