What is Knowledge : Ch-7.22
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Chapter 7: Yoga Discipline-22.'
“The non-cooperation of people with me is the source of my unhappiness.” This is what most people may feel in themselves. But you will certainly find time to think a little more philosophically when you discover that you can be unhappy even when the whole world of humanity is your friend, because the world is not exhausted by the existence of humanity.
The world does not contain only human beings. It would be very poor philosophy, poor science, and poor commonsense that go headlong with the conviction that “in the whole creation, the only reality is the existence of human beings like me”. In fact, you will realise that the more consequent determining factors of even the possibility of one’s life are not human, that they are outside the very purview of human thought. The forces of the world are not necessarily human forces.
Even history, which mostly is identified with the movement of human thought and human behaviour, is conditioned by factors which are not human. Students, or even philosophers of history, know that history is not merely the movement of the whims and fancies of thinking people, but it is a superhuman operation of forces which compel humanity to operate and work in a particular manner.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....
Chapter 7: Yoga Discipline-22.'
“The non-cooperation of people with me is the source of my unhappiness.” This is what most people may feel in themselves. But you will certainly find time to think a little more philosophically when you discover that you can be unhappy even when the whole world of humanity is your friend, because the world is not exhausted by the existence of humanity.
The world does not contain only human beings. It would be very poor philosophy, poor science, and poor commonsense that go headlong with the conviction that “in the whole creation, the only reality is the existence of human beings like me”. In fact, you will realise that the more consequent determining factors of even the possibility of one’s life are not human, that they are outside the very purview of human thought. The forces of the world are not necessarily human forces.
Even history, which mostly is identified with the movement of human thought and human behaviour, is conditioned by factors which are not human. Students, or even philosophers of history, know that history is not merely the movement of the whims and fancies of thinking people, but it is a superhuman operation of forces which compel humanity to operate and work in a particular manner.
Swami Krishnananda
To be continued ....
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