What is Knowledge : Ch-6-8.

Chapter- 6:- Being in Balance with the World-8.

Now, space is not an emptiness.

This is the point that we have to understand very clearly.

Thus, even our body which is so heavy, weighing so many kilograms, is ultimately space-time.

It is a puckered kink of space-time, as it were, which looks like a heavy substance, and just because it is heavy it need not be solid, because heaviness is a feature felt by the pull of gravitation.

Otherwise, there will be no heaviness at all.

Therefore, heaviness is not a criterion for the substantiality or solidity of an object; it is an illusion produced by the power of gravitation.

And even solidity is supposed to be an illusion created by electrical repulsions produced by the contact of that of which our body is made and that which we touch.

Well, these are interesting things into which we can research in more detail.


The point, finally, that comes out of all this analysis is that the physical body is not outside nature.

It is pointless for us to imagine that we are outside nature, that we can go scot free: let anything happen to the world, let anything be taking place in the natural physical world, and we can still be happy.

No! What does yoga tell us here?

What does Patanjali, at least, speak to us?

Yoga, as you all know very well, is a communion that is expected to be established between ourselves and Reality.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....