Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 25, 2021. 7:15. PM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 10. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the practice of yoga, the true ‘I’ in us rises into action. Now, here is a little bit of psychology to know how we can bring this ‘I’ to the surface of consciousness. Normally the whole ‘I’ does not come to the surface of consciousness in our daily life. We are buried beings, like a huge iceberg. The major part of it is inside the ocean and only a little fragmentary crust is on the surface, say psychoanalysts. We do not behave wholly with anybody in our life because the larger part of our personality is in the lower levels of our being, unconscious mostly, call it subconscious or pre-conscious, etc. The conscious personality of ours, the little intelligence that we are exercising, the reason th

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 16, 2021. 06:35. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now I am coming to the point of the practice of yoga. This little ‘I’ in us, in spite of the fact that we are only a crawling insect like an ant, is nevertheless a whole. The Infinite cannot be cut into parts as bees, ants, human beings, etc. It is wholly present even in the fragment of the body. The Infinite is wholly present even in a part. This is a difficult thing for the mind to understand. Inasmuch as the total Infinite is present even in the smallest grain of sand, every creature feels that it is a whole in itself and it is not a part. This wholeness which persists even in the little individuality of a human individual, a human personality, is to be taken advantage of in the practice of yoga. So when we concentrate on whatever be the ob