YOGA INTRODUCTION

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             BEFORE GOING INTO THE YOGA APHORISMS, I WILL TRY TO DISCUSS ONE GREAT QUESTION, UPON WHICH THE WHOSE THEORY OF RELIGION RESTS, FOR THE YOGIS. IT SEEMS THE CONSENSUS OF OPINION OF THE GREAT MINDS OF THE WORLD-AND IT HAS BEEN NEARLY DEMONSTRATED BY RESEARCHES INT PHYSICAL NATURE- THAT WE AR THE OUTCOME AND MANIFESTATION OF AN ABSOLUTE CONDITION, BACK OF OUR PRESENT RELATIVE CONDITION, AND ARE GOING FORWARD, TO RETURN AGAIN TO THAT ABSOLUTE. THIS BEING GRANTED, THE QUESTION IS, WHICH IS BETTER- THE ABSOLUTE OR THIS STATE? THERE ARE NOT PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THIS MANIFESTED STATE IS THE HIGHEST STATE OF MAN.

                   THINKERS OF GREAT CALIBER ARE OF THE OPINION THAT WE ARE MANIFESTED SPECIMENS OF UNDIFFERENTIATED BEING, AND THIS DIFFERENTIATED STATE IS HIGHER THAN THE ABSOLUTE. BECAUSE IN THE ABSOLUTE THERE CANNOT BE ANY QUALITY THEY IMAGINE THAT IT MUST BE INTENSATE, DULL, AND LIFELESS, THAT ONLY THIS LIFE CAN BE ENJOYED, AND THEREFORE WE MUST CLING TO IT, FIRST OF ALL. WE WANTS INQUIRE INTO OTHER SOLUTIONS OF LIFE. THERE WAS AN OLD SOLUTION THAT MAN AFTER DEATH REMAINDED THE SAME, THAT ALL HIS GOOD SIDES, MINUS HIS EVIL SIDES, REMAINED FOREVER.

            LOGICALLY STATED THIS MEANS THAT MAN'S GOAL IS THE WORLD. THIS WORLD CARRIED A STAGE HIGHER, AND WITH ELIMINATION OF ITS EVILS IS THE STATE THEY CALL HEAVEN.  

           THE MOST DIFFICULT PART TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THIS STATE, THE ABSOLUTE, WHICH HAS BEEN CALLED THE HIGHEST, IS NOT, AS SOME FEAR, THAT OF THE ZOOPHITE, OR OF THE STONE. THAT WOULD BE A DANGEROUS THING TO THINK. ACCORDING TO THESE THINKERS THERE ARE ONLY TWO STATES OF EXISTENCE, ONE OF THE STONE, AND THE OTHER OF THOUGHT. WHAT RIGHT HAVE THEY TO LIMIT EXISTENCE TO THESE TWO. IS THERE NOT SOMETHING INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THOUGHT? THE VIBRATIONS OF LIGHT, WHEN THEY ARE VERY LOW, WE DO NOT SEE, WHEY THEY BECOME STILL MORE INTENSE WE DO NOT SEE THEM, IT IS DARK TO US. IS THE DARKNESS IN THE END THE SAME AS IN THE BEGINNING? CERTAINLY NOT, IT IS THE DIFFERENCE OF THE TWO POLES. IS THE THOUGHTLESSNESS OF THE STONE THE SAME AS THE THOUGHTLESSNESS OF GOD? CERTAINLY NOT. GOD DOES NOT THINK, HE DOES NOT REASON, WHY SOULD HE? IS ANYTHING UNKNOWN TO HIM, THAT HE SHOULD REASON? THE STONE CANNOT REASON, GOD DOES NOT. SUCH IS THE DIFFERENCE. THESE PHILOSOPHERS THINK IT IS AWFUL IT WE GO BEYOND THOUGHT, THEY FIND NOTHING BEYOND THOUGHT.

             THERE ARE MUCH HIGHER STATES OF EXITENCE BEYOND REASONING, IT IS REALLY BEYOND THE INTELLECT THAT THE FIRST STAGE OF RELIGIOUS LIFE IS TO BE FOUND. WHEN YOU STEP BEYOND THOUGHT AND INTELLECT AND ALL REASONING, THEN YOU HAVE MADE THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS GOD, AND THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF LIFE. THIS THAT, COMMONLY CALLED LIFE, IS BUT AND EMBRYO STATE.

            THE NEXT QUESTION WILL BE, WHAT PROOF IS THERE THAT THIS STATE BEYOND THOUGHT AND REASONING IS THE HIGHEST STATE? IN THE FIRST PLACE, ALL THE GREAT MEN OF THE WORLD, MUCH GREATER THAN THOSE THAT ONLY TALK, MEN WHO MOVED THE WORLD, MEN WHO NEVER THOUGHT OF ANY SELFISH ENDS WHATEVER, HAVE DECLARED THAT  THIS IS BUT A LITTLE STAGE ON THE WAY, THAT THE INFINITE IS BEYOND. IN THE SECOND PLACE, THEY NOT ONLY SAY SO, BUT LAY IT OPEN TO EVERYONE, THEY LEAVE THEIR METHODS, AND ALL FOLLOW IN THEIR STEPS. IN THE THIRD PLACE, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY LEFT. 

                THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION. TAKING FOR GRANTED THAT THERE IS NO HIGHER STATE, WHY AREWE GOING THROUGH THIS CIRCLE ALL THE TIME, WHAT REASON CAN EXPLAIN THE WORLD? THE SENSIBLE WILL BE THE LIMIT TO OUR KNOWLEDGE IF WE CANNOT GO FARTHER, IF WE MUST NOT ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE. THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED AGNOSTICISM. BUT I WOULD CALL THAT MAN A TRUE AGNOSTIC WHO WOULD STAND STILL IN THE STREET AND DIE. IF REASON IS ALL IN ALL, IT LEAVES US NO PLACE TO STAND ON THIS SIDE OF NIHILISM. IF A MAN IS AGNOSTIC O EVERYTHING BUT MONEY, FAME AND NAME, HE IS ONLY A FRAUD.

                KAND HAS PROVED BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT WE CANNOT PENETRATE BEYOND THE TREMENDOUS DEAD WALL CALLED REASON. BUT THAT IS THE VERY FIST IDEA UPON WHICH ALL INDIAN THOUGHT TAKES ITS STAND, AND DARES TO SEEK, AND SUCCEEDS IN FINDING SOMETHING HIGHER THAN REASON, WHERE ANONE THE EXPLANATION OF THE PRESENT STATE IS TO BE FOUND. THIS ISTHE VALUE OF THE STUDY OF SOMETHING THAT WILL TAKE US BEYOND THE WORLD. THOU ART OUR FATHER, AND WILT TAKE US TO THE OTHER SHORE OF THIS OCEAN OF IGNORANCE, THAT IS THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, NOTHING ELSE CAN DO.