Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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passed and the guru wanted to find out how his disciples were faring. So he went to one disciple and he found that the disciple had accepted yoga as merely hatha yoga, asana and pranayama. He found that he had been doing asana and pranayama so much that he had literally sweated God out of his system. There was no real God in his life - there was only perspiration. The guru was very disappointed. He went to another disciple who was a jnanayogi. Then he found that this disciple had analyzed and attenuated God so much that he had figuratively split God into fine, minute parts, and God had completely disappeared from his life. Then he went to another disciple of his who had taken to bhakti yoga. He found that this disciple had shed so many tears for God that he had literally washed God out of his system. Then he went to another disciple who had specialized in raja yoga. He found that this disciple had dabbled in concentration and meditation on, sound and psychic exercise so much that God had manifested merely as a psychedelic experience and there was no God there other than lights, colors and sounds and different kinds of psychic appearances. We must understand that yoga means union. More than union, it means integrity, integration. It means integral, which means to make whole. I think that this is a very important point that you must understand.
Whatever philosophy you want to follow you must understand that there is a basic thing, existence, sat. But if thin air becomes reality and a solid, tangible, material entity becomes an illusion, irresponsibility takes over, indifference takes over, uncreativity takes over, dullness takes over, and that is the ruin of a civilization. You have to understand what reality really is. It is not thin air and what you see is not an illusion or an appearance. The illusion is created by your mind, in your understanding of what you see. There is physical reality, you certainly cannot deny the components of a glass. But if I think that this glass is a fountain of nectar and that the water, which is H20, is the nectar of immortality rather than merely water to quench my thirst, then irrationality sets in. It is in your mind that there is maya, and in the relativity of what you see, not in what you see.
For example, a tablecloth is flat. That is all it is to me, a flat surface. From the point of view of a microbe, it is mountainous territory. But since I am not a microbe, if I say that it is mountainous territory, then I am just lying.
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