The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad : 4.3 - Swami Krishnananda

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27/04/2020.
Chapter 4: Overcoming the Limitations of Space and Time -3.
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#The world is a human family  ( belongs to all jiva-jalams is more appropriate ). 

Today the world has grown so large, and also shrunken at the same time into a single unit; therefore, at the present moment, not to consider our involvement in the setup of the whole of humanity would be to think very poorly. There is no use merely thinking in terms of family, our little community or even one country. These small countries are involved in a larger setup of organisation, which is the human species in its wholeness. Like that, atmospheres around us, when they seem to determine us, demand from us a sacrifice which is not a loss, but a gain.
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A sacrifice is not losing something. Generally, when we speak of sacrifice, we feel that something has been lost. “Oh, that person has done a great sacrifice.” When we make statements like this, we mean the gentleman or the lady who has done the sacrifice has lost some precious thing which belonged to himself or herself. Nobody would like to lose anything. That would be a sorrow. But sacrifice is a joy. How can loss be a joy? Sacrifice is a gain, and not a loss. 

#Yoga is a sacrifice; therefore, it is not a loss.
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#If to be a member in the family, which requires a sacrifice on our part, would be a loss on our part, who would be in the family? 

We would run away and be independent. 

##Why do people form organisations if to sacrifice their personal motivations for the welfare of the organisation is a loss? 

To organise a setup is a gain. People register societies, form trusts, and arrange groups of people for the fulfilment of a purpose which is above the individual purpose of each member belonging to that group. This consciousness that the individual is organically connected to a purpose transcendent to one’s own personality is the yoga consciousness.
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#So when we are united in yoga, we are not united with any person or object. We are united with an ideal for which people stand, and this ideal is the reality, and not the visible objects.

To be continued ....


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