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So in that way, I want you to know that confusion, indulging in many statements, is not necessarily the real approach of yoga. Real understanding comes through a very, very slow process. So please do not indulge in speculations which make no substantial contribution to the improvement of life.
Improvement of life means: What is the state of your peace of mind? What is the state of your relationships with each other? What is the level of your attachment? Attachment is dependence on the external things. If I hold on tight to this glass, for example, I do not know the weight of the glass, I do not know the texture of the metal. I only know the nerve endings of my palm. So, I do not know the glass at all. That is attachment, that is dependence, holding tightly to the external thing rather than wanting to know what it really is.
Now, let us look at human beings. There is a saying, "We love objects and use people, rather than love people and use objects”. It is easy to love objects, but it is difficult to love human beings, because objects cannot talk back to you. So also with pets, it is easier to love pets rather than human beings because the pet cannot talk back to you.
So it is very necessary to experience a relationship profoundly in order that it can be deepened and sublimated, made whole, made integral. That is yoga and that is peace and that is fulfillment. A spiritual ideal well-realized and action well done, responsibly, with dedication, with commitment, that is yoga. A search to which one is dedicated and by which one is inspired, that is yoga.
Again, there is no contradiction in yoga between faith and reason, because reason is the fountain of knowledge. Reason means to evaluate the various aspects of life, but you cannot evaluate unless you have inspiration. Without inspiration, there is no fulfillment in your search, there is only sensation in your intellect. This inspiration is faith. There is a saying, "The intellect is a good servant but never a good master.” So without faith, inspiration and dedicated search, yoga becomes an irrational search which can only be excess questioning, sensation of the intellect rather than the clear fountain of knowledge.
As I told you, there is no atiprashna, excess questioning, you only created atiprashna. Why did God create this world? How do you know who created this world? The concept of God after
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