What is Knowledge : Ch-6-13.

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Chapter- 6:- Being in Balance with the World-13.

Thus, natural forces are impersonal laws with which you have to attune yourself in what yoga calls samadhis – and as you move higher and higher in yoga, you become more and more superhuman, impersonal, and no more an individual looking at the world as a mass of humanity, as a sea of people.

You will see that you are in an ocean of powers, forces, vibrations, and perhaps what people today call the space-time continuum.

This is what is awaiting you in the finale of yoga.


So, Patanjali tells you to be seated in a very equanimous position, in which you will be so equanimously posed that you will not even know that you have a body. Sit in a very calm posture for a few minutes without feeling any ache or pain in the body.

Sit for five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes; you will not know that you have a body at all.

You feel a sense of buoyancy of spirit.

The intense feeling that you are the body arises on account of your non-alignment with the objective world, and even at the stage of yoga asana, at least from the point of view of the system of Patanjali, begin this meditation.

Even the yoga asana itself is a meditation, because it requires a great power of concentration of mind to be seated in such an equilibrated position.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....




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