Sri Aurobindo or the journey of consciousness. Satprem Sri Aurobindo, or the journey of consciousness Sri Aurobindo, or the Journey of Consciousness

The more difficult the test, the faster we find a way to end it; and it turns out that this difficult period of transition in which we are involved is leading to a brighter light.

I become what I perceive in myself.

Isn't changing yourself the most effective way changes in others?

We are always in a state of unstable equilibrium.

Everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration...

We become overly sensitive. ... The whole world seems to us to be complete Absurdity. This is a sure sign of the beginning of immersion within... the seeker must understand that he is being born to another life, and his new eyes, new sense organs have not yet formed; he is like a newborn...
Our faith is not reckless, it is not the stupidity of gullibility, but a premonition - something that knows before we do, sees before us and sends its vision and knowledge to the surface as an aspiration, a search for an inexplicable Faith. Faith is an intuition that not only awaits experience to confirm it, but also leads to experience.

The mind is not an instrument of knowledge, but only an organizer of knowledge... Knowledge comes from another source. When the mind is calm, everything - words, speech, action - comes automatically, with amazing accuracy and speed. Truly this is a different, brighter way of existence.

Everything is together and happening at the same time

The silent mind... leads to an expansion of consciousness, which becomes a way to turn at will to any point in universal reality in order to receive from there the knowledge that it needs.

Not only do other people's thoughts come to us from outside, but our own thoughts come from outside... rejecting... a thought when we see it coming to us from outside is not difficult.

Don't think, just look at your mind; you will see how thoughts enter into it; ...

And in our death we will have the same degree of consciousness that we acquired in our life.

We have all experienced...vibrations emanating from various levels of our being...we have been able to feel the great vibration of revelation, when a veil seems to suddenly open and the truth is revealed to us, without words. And we don’t even know exactly what this revelation consists of - just something vibrates, and this makes the world unusually wide, bright and clear. We could also experience heavier vibrations of anger or fear, vibrations of desire, vibrations of sympathy...

Within us there is a whole series of vibrational nodes, or centers of consciousness... the mind is only one of these centers, one type of vibration, only one form of consciousness...

In some blessed moments of our life, we feel in our being a certain warmth, some internal waves or living force that cannot be described in words, which appears without our knowledge, suddenly appearing from nowhere, without reason, naked, like need or flame. As children, we are often overcome by the feeling of this pure delight...

It is not only an impersonal force, but a presence, a being within us... something that gives us strength and strength... and gives us the opportunity to look at the world calmly... makes us invulnerable, and moreover, we are no longer alone. ... And quite strangely - as soon as we found it, we find the same thing everywhere - in all creatures and in all objects; we come into direct contact with them...

Consciousness is not a way of thinking or feeling (not only that), but a way of coming into contact with the myriad planes of existence - visible and invisible.

Our inner consciousness has the power (dissolves vibrations, neutralizes shocks) ... anger; if instead of vibrating in unison with the person... we can remain absolutely still inside, then we will see that the person's anger gradually dissipates like smoke...

The complications are not in life, but in ourselves... External circumstances are an accurate reflection of what we are.

At certain moments in time, certain mental states come or periodically return to us... (states of vibrations, repeating, acquire a semblance of personality)...

Hostile forces... Suffering is the first sign of the enemy's presence. Tragedy is the favorite place for the presence of these forces...

We learn that we can fall as low as we can rise—our falls are in exact proportion to our ability to rise.

People are elevated by what contributed to their downfall.

We may be defeated, upset, however, deep inside ourselves we feel the presence of a “witness”... untouchable. We fall and rise again, each time becoming stronger.
The only sin is to fall into despair... the seeker... will be more open to danger than others, because he strives to revive everything with his consciousness... and because he has to open more than one single path to grace... , but to master many paths... and get more than one treasure.

Every single sensation is dual, contradictory in nature. Every sensation is the other side of another sensation; at any moment it can turn into its opposite.

Our sorrows and sufferings are in fact always a sign of confusion, and therefore they are false. Only joy is true.
The slightest suffering of any kind is an immediate sign of contradictions in our being and a loss of consciousness.

Our true self is revealed precisely when everything collapses, because then our moment of truth comes.

- ... “moments of the soul” ... (memories, surprise) these are the only moments when we lived, when from hundreds of hours of non-existence the true “I” came to the surface. The psychic can come to the surface in tragic circumstances, when the whole being gathers, concentrates in painful tension, and something breaks within us... we will be struck by some tangles of circumstances or dead-end situations that, it seems, we have already encountered somewhere , they seem to be surrounded by an aura of fatality....
...until we stand face to face with old difficulties, we will not untie the knot. For such is the law of internal progress...

We need to forget in order to grow.

The more the psychic being grows, the more actively it takes part in our worldly activities...

When communicating with people... as soon as we think about something or someone, we thereby come into contact at that very moment with all the vibrations that make up this object or person, and with all the consequences, which these vibrations bring. And since the physical mind is always afraid of something, it constantly draws before us the most terrible possibilities, thereby bringing us into contact with them. He always expects the worst.

It is not the body that is sick - it is the consciousness that weakens.

When we fall ill or become victims of an “accident,” it is always the result of a lack of consciousness, a wrong attitude, or mental chaos.

We notice... a strict relationship between our internal state and external circumstances (illness, for example, or "accidents") as if life unfolds... from the inside out... Everything is interconnected, the whole world is a miracle... Divine - also natural. But we don't know how to look.

The inner position has the power to shape external circumstances for better or worse; when the seeker is in a state of harmony, and his actions correspond to the innermost truth of his being, then nothing will interfere with him... and chaos irresistibly attracts negative external circumstances, accident or illness.

Association with certain people always tends to attract both accidents and confusion.

The only disease is lack of consciousness.

If you are aware of this surrounding “I” (vibrations, that is), then you will be able to catch a thought, passion, suggestion or the power of illness and prevent them from invading you.

Different ways of perceiving the same phenomenon force us in one case to say “I am alive”, and in another “I am sleeping” or “I am dead”...

Death is not a negation of life, but a process of life.

-... you need to stop right in the dream, repeat the content of the vision two or three times so that it is well remembered, and then return to sleep.

Experiences are not dreams... they are real events, on one or another plane of consciousness, in which we take part....

Sleep is a storehouse of information in our own individual consciousness....

Everything we become, do and undergo in physical life is prepared behind the veil within us (on other planes of consciousness).
... Every event that happens there (in the dream action) prepares what will happen here.

Everything has a meaning, even if it is not immediately perceived.

We ourselves are already what we know. True knowledge is not achieved by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

What we call fantasy does not exist - these are real events whose time has not yet come.

The body is precisely the place where consciousness meets matter.

-... the soul had a pre-human past, and it has a super-human future.

Intuition is the recollection of Truth.

Absolute error does not exist - there is only a fragment of Truth.
Life dies not because it is exhausted, exhausted, but because it has not found itself.

Nothing can be truly understood until you understand it with your body.

Man's ability to descend is directly proportional to his ability to ascend... (fundamental psychological law)... (Those without knowledge)... cannot look far enough into the future to appreciate the good that evil has in store and to see the dynamic Force hidden in the play of opposites.

It is not the past that is the engine of our progress - it is the future that pulls, attracts us, it is the light from above that gradually penetrates our darkness...

The superconscious future seeks to penetrate our present. And we would understand that what we feel as our own effort is only resistance caused by our stupidity and ignorance.

Progress is not so much a process of ascension, but rather the enlightenment of everything that interferes...

When the seeker finds the first true discovery at the top, when he sees the light, then almost simultaneously he feels a strong kick below, as if something begins to ache inside him... Every step up is inevitably followed by a step down. Instead of accepting these abrupt breakdowns and protracted deviations... doomedly, as some kind of fatal inevitability, the seeker will make them the basis of his work.

Each... mistake ignites a flame of suffering, which... makes a hole for light below... Purity is impenetrable... in order for Truth to enter, a crack is necessary:
“He turned his mistake into a door through which the Truth entered.”

There are no sins, no mistakes, there are only countless failures, sufferings that force us to examine our kingdom far and wide and embrace everything in order to heal and complete everything.

If there is death, then there must be life in it... Everything negative is the other side of something positive.

The sole purpose of the book of philosophies is not to enlighten the mind, but to calm it so that it can, passing on to experience, receive immediate inspiration.

We do everything with tension, hastily, ... constantly forced to respond by the demands of external life... In convulsions, we are either in a hurry, or out of fear, out of care, out of greed - this is the heritage... Our substance retains the memory of everything that has gone before struggle for survival, and her immediate reaction is to immediately tense up. This tension is one of the causes of death and also the main obstacle to the establishment of true vibration.

On any plane, it is necessary not to remove evil, but to convince it that it carries Light within itself.

The higher the seeker rises, the more accessible the zones below are for him. The portion of the past with which he can come into contact corresponds exactly to the “amount” of the future that he discovers...

Death is not the opposite of life! This is the other side, the door to the luminous Superconscious - at the very end of this "no" there is a "yes" and another "yes" that continues to push us into one body after another, and the goal of this is joy. Death is nothing more than the regret of this “yes”... this is the dark liberation of the body... which has not yet found... joy. When the body acquires this ecstasy, the vastness of light and joy within its own flesh as well as in the higher spheres, then it will no longer need to die.

The greatness of a man does not lie in what he is (at the moment), but in what he makes possible (for himself).

A change in consciousness is a change in physical organization - evolution, but the reverse process is also possible in a person... But as soon as balance is established, a change in the body should no longer precede a change in consciousness; consciousness itself, through its changes, will cause and control all the changes that are necessary for the body.

Knowledge is automatically empowered. For this is true knowledge, which embraces everything, and true knowledge is powerful knowledge. We do not have power because we do not see the whole. “Any thought and sensation is already an action itself.”
“Truth from above will awaken truth below” (only like can affect like).

Introduction

Chapter 1. A completely Western man

Chapter 2. Eternal Law

Chapter 3. The End of Intelligence

Chapter 4. Silence of the mind

• Mental constructs
• Active Meditation
• Transition period
• Descent of Power
• Entering a new way of knowing
• Universal Mind

Chapter 5. Consciousness

• Centers of consciousness
• Frontal creature
• Individualization of consciousness
• Consciousness-power, consciousness-joy

Chapter 6. Calming the Vital

• Moral Bonds
• Habit of Response
• Hostile forces
• True vital

Chapter 7. Psychic Center

• Psychic birth
• Mental growth

Chapter 8. Independence from the physical

• Independence from feelings
• Independence from illness
• Body independence

Chapter 9. Sleep and death

• Planes of consciousness
• Dream-experience
• Dream-action

Chapter 10. Revolutionary Yogi

• Action problem
• Nirvana

Chapter 11. Unity

• Cosmic consciousness
• Central being. Universal personality
• Cognition through identification

Chapter 12. Superconscious

• Mystery
• Opening conditions
• Ascension of consciousness
• Ecstasy?
• Creatures and powers
• Plans of the mind

1. Ordinary Mind
2. Sublime Mind
3. Illuminated Mind
4. Intuitive Mind
5. Overmental Mind

• Poetry of mantras

Chapter 13. Under the sign of the gods

Chapter 14. Mystery

• Degrees of the subconscious
• Limits of psychoanalysis
• Dark Hemisphere of Truth
• The Great Transition

Chapter 15. Supramental Consciousness

• Supramental vision
• Supramental force

Chapter 16. Man is a transitional creature

• Writings of Sri Aurobindo
• Contours of evolution

Chapter 17. Transformation

• Future Prospects
• Work (first period)
• Fundamental Agni
• Second period - body
• Second period - subconscious
• Third period - Ashram

Conclusion. The end that always begins again

Excerpt

Sri Aurobindo, or the Journey of Consciousness

Chapter 4

SILENCE OF THE MIND

Mental constructs

The first stage in Sri Aurobindo's yoga and the main task, the solution of which will serve as the key to many realizations, is the establishment of silence in the mind. It may be asked: why is this silence of the mind necessary? Obviously, if we want to open a new country within ourselves, then first we need to leave the old one, and everything depends on the determination with which we take this first step. Sometimes it's like a flash. Something screams in us: “Enough of this chatter!”, and we immediately find ourselves on the path and walk without looking back. Others say “yes”, then “no” - they oscillate endlessly between two worlds. Let us emphasize once again that we do not strive to tear away from ourselves what we already have and what we got through hard work, in the name of Wisdom-Peace-Enlightenment, and we will try to avoid high and empty words; we strive not for holiness, but for youth - the eternal youth of an ever-growing being; we strive not for a disadvantaged existence, but for a more perfect and, above all, broader existence: Not came have you ever head that If would they really strive for something cold, dark and gloomy, then they were wouldn't wise men, and donkeys? 1 - Sri Aurobindo once jokingly remarked.

Indeed, when the machine of the mind stops, a person makes various kinds of discoveries and, above all, he understands that if the ability to think is a wonderful gift, then ability not think 2 - a much greater gift. Let the seeker try not to think for at least a few minutes - he will quickly see what he is dealing with! He will understand that he lives in invisible chaos, in an exhausting, incessant whirlwind, filled exclusively with his thoughts, his sensations, impulses and reactions - “I”, always “I” - an overgrown gnome who interferes in everything, obscures everything, sees and hears only himself, knows only himself (if he knows at all!), a dwarf whose unchanging themes create the illusion of novelty only due to the fact that they constantly replace each other. IN in a certain sense we are not What other than a complex bundle of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by several controlling ideas, desires and associations - amalgam from many self-repeating forces and several basic vibrations. 3 By the age of eighteen, we seemed to have formed, our main vibrations had formed. And then, around this primary structure, in ever denser layers, ever more refined and refined layers, the same thing is constantly built up - something that has a thousand faces and what we call culture or our “I”. In reality we are imprisoned in some kind of design- it can be completely impenetrable, without the slightest hole, or elegant, like a minaret, but one way or another we are walled up - whether in a granite shell or in a glass statue. We endlessly repeat ourselves, always buzzing about the same thing. The first task of yoga is to learn to breathe freely. And destroy, of course, this mental veil, which allows only one type of vibration to pass through, to finally reveal the multi-colored infinity of vibrations, to see the world and people as they really are, and to find within oneself another “I” that cannot be assessed on the mental level.

Active Meditation

When we sit with our eyes closed in order to establish mental silence, at first we find ourselves inundated with a stream of thoughts. They appear from everywhere, like frightened or even aggressive rats. There is only one way to calm them down: try to do it again and again, patiently and persistently, and most importantly, do not make mistakes: do not fight the mind mentally - you need to concentrate on something else. We all have it above our minds or deep inside pursuit- the very thing that led us on the path, a certain password that has special meaning for us. If we adhere to this aspiration, then work becomes easier, work turns from negative to positive, and the more we repeat our password, the more effective it becomes. You can also use an image, for example, a vast ocean, a smooth surface without ripples on which we lie, on which we float, becoming this calm infinity. This is how we learn not only to calm the mind, but also to expand consciousness. In fact, everyone must find their own path, and the less stress put into this search, the faster success will come: It happens that a person starts one or another process, trying to achieve a goal that usually requires long-term work, and in this case, even at the beginning, some kind of rapid intervention occurs, or same on Silence descends upon him, produces results that are incommensurate with the same means he used in the beginning. He begins to practice a certain method, but accepts work for yourself Grace from above, descending from Togo, to what they strive for - or but this is a different case, it is accomplished by a sudden invasion of the infinity of the Spirit. This is the way I he came to absolute silence of the mind, oh which is not could have had ideas before got a real experience. 4 Indeed, this is an extremely important point. After all, one might think that all these beautiful and interesting yogic experiences are far beyond ordinary human capabilities: how can people like us achieve this? Our mistake is that by our current “I” we judge the capabilities of another “I”. Moreover, during yoga automatically, due to the mere fact that a person has taken the path, a whole series of hidden abilities and invisible forces are awakened, which in all respects surpass the capabilities of our external being and can do for us what under ordinary conditions we cannot do: It is necessary to clear the passage between the outer mind and something in inner being, ... for they (yogic consciousness and his powers) are already within you, 5 and The best way"cleansing" this passage is to silence the mind. We don't know who we are, much less what we are capable of.

But meditation alone is not the real solution to the problem (although at first it may be necessary to give us the initial impulse), because even if we achieve relative silence of the mind, we lose it immediately at the threshold of our refuge, falling into the usual bustle, subject to the usual divisions into internal and external, into inner life and worldly life. We need life in all its fullness, we want to live in the truth of our being every day, every minute, and not just on holidays or in solitude. And it is simply impossible to achieve this through blissful meditation in an idyllic setting. IN in our spiritual solitude we can ossify and discover later that it is difficult for us to pour ourselves out into the fullness and apply to life our achievements related to higher Nature. When we turn to external to attach and this is the kingdom to our internal conquests, it turns out that we are too accustomed to purely subjective activity, which materially ineffective. Transform your outer life and the body will be extremely difficult. Or we will find that our actions are not correspond to the inner light; they continue to follow their usual false paths and to submit to old imperfect influences; The truth within us is still separated by a painful gap from ignorant mechanism of our external nature. ...Everything happens the way it is If if we lived in another world, a wider world and more subtle, not having no only divine influence, but And no other, even the smallest, influence on material and earthly existence 6. Therefore, the only solution is to practice calming the mind where it is Seems The hardest thing is: on the street, in the subway, at work - everywhere. Instead of walking four times a day along the Boulevard Saint-Michel, always in a hurry, as if someone were chasing us, we can walk, aware of everything within and without, as befits a seeker. Instead of living from time to time, scattered in a multitude of thoughts that not only do not bring any pleasure, but are also exhausting, like a broken record, we can collect the scattering threads of our consciousness and work - work on ourselves - every minute. And then life becomes surprisingly exciting, because the slightest circumstance becomes an opportunity for victory - we concentrated, we are going somewhere instead of going nowhere.

For yoga is not a way of acting, but a way of being.

Appendix I

Sri Aurobindo

"Western Metaphysics and Yoga"

European metaphysical thought - even among those thinkers who try to prove or explain the existence and nature of God or the Absolute - does not go beyond the limits of the intellect in its methods and results. But the intellect is not capable of knowing the highest Truth, it can only wander in search of the Truth, grasping its individual [fragmentary] images, and not the whole, and trying to connect them together. Reason cannot reach Truth; he can only create some constructed image that tries to represent her, or a combination of such images. The result of European thought must therefore always be agnosticism, explicit or implicit. The intellect, if it honestly moves towards its own limit, has to go back [back] and give the following account: “I am not capable of knowledge, there is, or at least it seems to me that there may be, or even there must be, something beyond. some ultimate Reality, but regarding its truth I can only make assumptions, it is either unknowable or cannot be known with my help [by me].” Or if it [the mind] has received some light from that which is beyond itself, it may also say: “Perhaps there is some consciousness beyond the Mind, for I seem to catch glimpses of it and even receive instructions from it.” . If this is in connection with the Beyond, or if this is the very consciousness of the Beyond and you can find some way to achieve it, then this Something can be known, but not otherwise.”

Any search for the highest Truth through the intellect alone must end either in agnosticism of the kind mentioned, or in some intellectual system, or in a doctrine constructed by the mind. There are already hundreds of such systems and doctrines and hundreds more may be created, but none of them can be final. Each may have its own value to the mind, and different systems with their contrary conclusions may have equal appeal to minds of equal strength and ability. All this work of speculative thinking is useful in that it educates [trains] the human mind and constantly points it to the idea of ​​​​something Transcendent and Final - to which it must turn itself. But the thinking Mind can only vaguely point to Him or feel Him, or try to discover separate and even contradictory aspects of His manifestation here; he can enter into Him and know Him. As long as we remain in the purely intellectual realm, all that can be done [here] is to reflect dispassionately on what has been thought and then found, constantly weighing ideas, all possible ideas, and [finally] creating one or another philosophical belief, opinion, or conclusion. This kind of impartial investigation of Truth would be the only possible attitude of any broad and flexible intellect. But any conclusion thus reached would be only speculative; it could not have any spiritual value, it would not give the convincing experience [experience] or spiritual assurance that the soul seeks. If the intellect is our highest possible instrument, and there is no other means of attaining supraphysical Truth, then wise and unlimited agnosticism must be our final position. Things in their manifestation can be known to some extent, but the Supreme and everything that is beyond the Mind must forever remain unknown.

And only if there is a greater consciousness beyond the Mind and this consciousness is available to us, can we know and enter into the ultimate Reality. Intellectual speculation, logical argumentation - whether such a higher consciousness exists or not - cannot take us very far. What we need is a way to gain experience, to achieve this consciousness, to enter into it, to live in it. If we can achieve this, intellectual reflection and discussion [reasoning] will necessarily fade into the background and even lose its raison d'être. Philosophy, the intellectual expression of Truth, may remain as a means of expressing this greater discovery - so far as it can be expressed at all in the sphere of the mental mind.

This, as you will see, answers your question about Western thinkers - Bradley and others - who came through intellectual reflection to the idea of ​​an "Other Beyond Thought" or even tried, like Bradley, to express their conclusions about it in terms that resemble some expressions in "Arya". This idea in itself is not new, it is as old as the Vedas. In other forms it was repeated by Buddhism, Christian Gnosticism, and Sufism. It was originally discovered not by intellectual reflection [not by the work of the thinking intellect], but by the mystical pursuit of an inner spiritual discipline. When - somewhere between the 7th and 5th centuries. before the birth of Christ, people, both in the East and in the West, began to intellectualize knowledge, this Truth survived [survived] in the East; in the West, where the intellect began to be recognized as the only and highest instrument [for] the discovery of Truth, it began to die out. But even there she is still constantly trying to be reborn; it was resurrected by the Neoplatonists, and now the Neo-Hegelians and others (for example, the Russian Ouspensky and one or two German thinkers, I believe) seem to be approaching it. And yet there is a difference.

In the East, especially in India, metaphysicians have tried, as in the West, to establish the nature of the supreme Truth through the intellect. But, firstly, they did not elevate intellectual thinking to the rank of the best tool in the discovery of Truth, but put it in second place. The first place has always been given to spiritual intuition and insight, spiritual experience; an intellectual conclusion which contradicted this Supreme Authority was considered invalid. Secondly, every philosophy was armed with a practical way of achieving a higher state of consciousness, so that even when starting with Thought, the goal was to arrive at a state beyond mental thinking. The founder of all philosophy (like those who continued his work or school) combined a metaphysical thinker and a yogi. Those who were only intellectual philosophers [rationalists, contemplatives] were respected for their learning, but were never elevated to the rank of discoverers of truth. And philosophies that did not have sufficiently powerful means [to achieve] spiritual experience died out and became belonging to the past, since they were not effective means for spiritual discovery and realization.

In the West, just the opposite tradition has taken hold. Thought, intellect, the logical mind began to be more and more regarded as the highest means and even as the highest limit; in philosophy, thought is both a given and a limit, through mental Thought, purified and modified, this other Truth must be achieved and formalized in order to take the place of mental limitations and ignorance. And again, Western thought has ceased to be dynamic [an effective tool]; she sought to [construct] a theory of being, and not to [its] realization. It was still dynamic among the ancient Greeks, but rather for moral and aesthetic rather than spiritual conclusions. Later she became even more purely intellectual and academic; it has become pure speculation without any practical ways and means of achieving the Truth through spiritual experiment, spiritual discovery, spiritual transformation. If it were not for this difference, there would be no reason for seekers like you to turn to the East for help, for in the purely intellectual sphere Western thinkers are as competent as any Eastern sage. But it is precisely this spiritual path, the road that leads beyond the intellect, the transition from the external being to the innermost Self, that was abandoned by the excessive intellectuality of the European mind.

In the passages from Bradley and Joachim to which you refer me, there is still the intellect pondering what lies beyond itself and coming to intellectual, rational, speculative conclusions about it. It is not a valid agent for the change it is trying to describe. If these philosophers were to express in mental terms some realization, [even] a mental one, some intuitive experience [experience] of this “Other than Thought,” one who is ready for this could feel it [it] through the veil of language that they use, and pull yourself up to the same experience [experience]. Or if, after reaching [certain] intellectual conclusions, they would move on to spiritual realization, finding a [certain] path or following what has already been found, then, following their thought, [the seeker] could prepare himself for the same transition. But there is nothing of the kind in their intense thoughts. They remain in the field of intellect, and in this field they are undoubtedly excellent; but they do not become dynamic [effective means] for spiritual experience.

And not at all through “thought coverage” of the entire total reality, but through a change in consciousness, one can move from ignorance to Knowledge - Knowledge, through which we become what we know. To pass from the outer to the immediate and intimate inner consciousness, to expand the consciousness beyond the ego and the body, to raise it with the help of the inner will and aspiration and opening [it] to the Light until it goes beyond the Mind in its ascent, to bring about the descent of the supramental Divine through self-giving and self-denial with consistent transformation of mind, life and body - this is integral the path to Truth. This is what we call Truth here and what we strive for in our Yoga.