When you practise yoga, you should also study the scriptures and, most importantly, everyone should practise karma yoga, so that your spiritual powers and accomplishments may find a source or a channel of expression. This is why many great saints, sannyasins and seers who had achieved realization of that pure awareness came into society. They gave something to society through their spiritual understanding. I feel that the time has come when the world will change. The emphasis on material things will diminish, and more emphasis will be placed on a higher spiritual life. This can be realized through yoga. When awareness grows, so man’s thoughts, concepts and values also change. If humanity as a whole is going to change, whether due to time, as it has been destined, or through certain practices, we are heading into the era of the psychic, the supramental race. Before this is accomplished, man will have to fight a grim battle with himself. The psychic race will not be established so easily. One has to be careful because the first explosion or awakening of the psychic consciousness is complete anarchy, a complete non-acceptance of material values, complete detachment from the established values of life, authorities, etc. This happens when practising spiritual life, when the development of awareness takes place, we come to a point when we think, ‘What is all this nonsense?’ But, of course, the time also comes when balance returns. This balance must be brought about through evolution or through the practice of yoga. Even if we do not practise yoga, the process of unfoldment of awareness is going to take place, and it is taking place. From the beginning of time to this day, awareness has evolved through the laws of nature. Nature’s scheme is that everyone will rise above instinct. Consciousness will rise above instinct, then above the body, senses, mind and intellect. Ultimately, it will operate on a higher level. This higher level is the spiritual level, the level of yoga. - Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:09:59 +0000
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