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Editorial

The Path and the Goals

Introduction planned and brought about by infinite wisdom
to carry out the natural process of the yoga,
Yoga is not a set of static or dynamic exercises how the internal and external movements are
but a journey through the inner landscapes. arranged and brought together to work on
It is a new and unprecedented venture, the each other, so as to work out the imperfection
greatest of all adventures. Since the journey and work in the perfection. An almighty love
starts in ignorance hence one needs help in and wisdom are at work for your uplifting.
the inner transformative process. This article Therefore never be troubled by the time that
discusses some of the aids on the path. is being taken, even if it seems very long, but
when imperfections and obstructions arise,
be apramatta, dhıira, have the utsaaha, and leave
God to do the rest. Time is necessary. It is a
tremendous work that is being done in you,
the alteration of your whole human nature into
a divine nature, the crowding of centuries of
evolution into a few years. You ought not to
grudge the time. There are other paths that
offer more immediate results or at any rate, by
offering you some definite kriya you can work
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at yourself, give your ahannkara the satisfaction
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of feeling that you are doing something, so
The trackless Path beyond the paths many more prannayamas today, so much longer
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a time for the asana, so many more repetitions
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“It is said in the ‘Sanatsujatīya’ that four things of the japa, so much done, so much definite
are necessary for siddhi — ssaastra, utsaaha, guru progress marked. But once you have chosen
and kaala — the teaching of the path, zeal in this path, you must cleave to it. Those are
following it, the Guru and time. Your path human methods, not the way that the infinite
is that which I am pointing out, the utsaaha SSakti works, which moves silently, sometimes
needed is this anumati and this nityasmaranna, imperceptibly to its goal, advances here, seems
the Guru is God himself and for the rest only to pause there, then mightily and triumphantly
time is needed. That God himself is the Guru, reveals the grandiose thing that it has done.
you will find when knowledge comes to you; Artificial paths are like canals hewn by the
you will see how every little circumstance intelligence of man; you travel easily, safely,
within you and without you has been subtly surely, but from one given place to another.

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