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stumbling in all its paths cannot easily lend when the seeking for something higher and
an assured trust; nor is the large and full truth truer, something permanent, something
of it apparent unless with these first words of perfect that can give us lasting peace and joy,
the message of the Gıitaa we read also the last, is vaguely there. Nor does one know how to
‘Abandon all laws of conduct and take refuge find what one wants. One is in the darkness
in Me alone; I will deliver you from all sin and of ignorance, so to speak. Hence one gropes
evil; do not grieve (4).’” for whatever handle or lever one finds or
starts taking whatever road one sees in front
The two modes of Yoga that is apparently promising us the hoped-
for, longed-for Paradise. In ordinary life,
“No synthesis of Yoga can be satisfying which since we are hardly conscious of anything
does not, in its aim, reunite God and Nature else than what the senses reveal and the
in a liberated and perfected human life or, in desires push us to acquire, we start looking
its method, not only permit but favour the for objects to satisfy our desires ignorantly
harmony of our inner and outer activities believing that it is this that will fulfil our
and experiences in the divine consummation seeking. But after repeated frustrations,
of both. For man is precisely that term and possibly through a number of lives, as Indic
symbol of a higher Existence descended into spiritual thought reveals, we eventually
the material world in which it is possible for start looking elsewhere and search for other
the lower to transfigure itself and put on the roads. We begin to analyse and discern the
nature of the higher and the higher to reveal real as opposed to apparent causes of our
itself in the forms of the lower. To avoid suffering, begin to seek something that
the life which is given him for the realisation can last and endure, something that can be
of that possibility, can never be either the permanent.
indispensable condition or the whole and
ultimate object of his supreme endeavour
or of his most powerful means of self-
fulfilment. It can only be a temporary necessity
under certain conditions or a specialised
extreme effort imposed on the individual so
as to prepare a greater general possibility for
the race. The true and full object and utility
of Yoga can only be accomplished when the
conscious Yoga in man becomes, like the
subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly
conterminous with life itself and we can
once more, looking out both on the path and Thus, some kind of clarity grows and
the achievement, say in a more perfect and from behind the veil of ignorance, sense
luminous sense: ‘All life is Yoga (5).’” attachments, desires something truer and
deeper begins to emerge. It is then that
Yoga takes place in two modes, consciously we begin to look beyond the limits of our
or unconsciously. Subconscious yoga is humanness and seek for a greater Light and

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