Yoga helps the yogi by
giving him the feeling that the world is not worth bothering about, it detaches
him from the world; it makes him treat the world as a dream, i.e. an idea. It does
the same to his ego to some extent because he becomes indifferent to what
happens to him. But this is only feeling, he feels these things only but does
not know that the world is mere mirage. Such knowledge can come only after the soul-centric
inquiry and reasoning and in no other way. That is why yogi cannot be Gnani. It
is the difference between egocentric and soulcentric knowledge.
Yogic experience is
based on individuality. Individual Feeling or opinion that
the world is unreal may change in the future because all individual emotions are
liable to change; and the fact is that individuals do change, as when they
indulge in circumstances of practical life within the practical world and they lose their sense of world unreality
though previously they felt it. A permanent view of the world as unreal or illusion
can come only after soulcentric inquiry and reasoning; such knowledge cannot
change.
Where one is sharp
enough to grasp he could discover the fallacy of the three states by soulcentric reasoning alone and then it would not be
necessary for him to have gone through yoga practice at all; that is why yoga is for dull or middling intellects.
To know the whole truth,
one must know the nature of all the three states, otherwise he gets half-truth. One has to
inquire into the world that confronts
him. If one drops the world confronting him means it is his incapacity
to do a deeper self - search.
Visions and Samadhi
are illusions from the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self. In
Mandukya it is given that Samadhi and sleep are identical. Brihad Upanishad
does not advocate Samadhi. In
non-duality, contemplation has no meaning.
Sri Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 - Commentary on
Brihadaranyakopanishad.
One cannot get rid of
ignorance through Yoga because yoga is practiced on the false self within the
false experience. Without getting rid of
the ignorance false self and false experience will prevail as reality.
Those who are
practicing yoga for long years and found tit it to be inadequate and useless to
realize ultimate truth or Brahman
should leave must take the path of wisdom in order to acquire Self-Knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana.
