Yoga practice is unthinkable, and would also be ineffectual,
without the concepts on which Yoga is based. It combines the bodily
and the spiritual with each other in an extraordinarily complete
way.
"In the East, where these ideas and practices have developed, and
where for several thousand years an unbroken tradition has created
the necessary spiritual foundations, Yoga is, as I can readily
believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and
mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be
questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which
makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness."
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control
will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This
new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the
now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a
concentrate of energy. Finer forces of the human mind can and must
liberate energies greater than those within stones and metals, lest
the material atomic giant, newly unleashed, turn on the world in
mindless destruction. {FN24-9}
{FN24-1} I CORINTHIANS 7:32-33.
{FN24-2} Literally, "This soul is Spirit." The Supreme Spirit,
the Uncreated, is wholly unconditioned (NETI, NETI, not this, not
that) but is often referred to in VEDANTA as SAT-CHIT-ANANDA, that
is, Being-Intelligence-Bliss.
{FN24-3} Sometimes called Shankaracharya.
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