The object of our Yoga

[Guest guest]

The object of our Yoga is self-perfection, not self-annulment.

 

There are two paths set for the feet of the yogi, withdrawal from the

universe and perfection in the universe; the first comes by

asceticism, the second is effected by Taasya;

 

The first receives us when we lose God in Existence, the second is

attained when we fulfil Existence in God;

 

Let ours be the path of perfection, not abandonment; let our aim be

victory in the battle, not the escape from all conflicts.

 

Buddha and shankara supposed the world to be radically false and

miserable, therefore escape from the world was to them the only

wisdom.

 

But this world is Brahm, the world is God, the world is Satya, the

world is Ananda. It is our misreading of the world through mental

egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong relation with god in the

world that is a misery. There is no other falsity and no other cause

of sorrow.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

, " Aum " <beirut_ka_baba wrote:

>

> But this world is Brahm, the world is God, the world is Satya, the

> world is Ananda. It is our misreading of the world through mental

> egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong relation with god in the

> world that is a misery. There is no other falsity and no other cause

> of sorrow.

>

>

 

God created the world in Himself through Maya. But the vedic meaning

of Maya is not illusion. It is wisdom, knowledge, capacity, wide

extension in consciousness.

 

Omnipotent wisdom created this world, it is not the organised blunder

of some infinite Dreamer; omniscient Power manifests or concelas it in

itself for its own delight, it is not a bondage imposed by his own

ignorance on the free and absolute Brahman.

 

If the world were Brahman's self imposed nightmare, to endeavour; or

if life in the world were irrevocably bound to misery, a means of

escape from this bondage would be the sole secret worth discovering.

 

But perfect truth in world ixistence and perfect bliss in the world is

possible ; for God enjoys all things with the sense of unalloyed

freedom. We also can enjoy this truth and bliss, called by the veda

amrtam immortality, if by casting away our egoistic existence into

perfectr unity with His being we consent to receive the divine

perception and the divine freedom

 

- Shri aurobindo