" The intellect
has no answer for these questions; hence the rishis evolved yoga
as the technique of spiritual inquiry.
KRIYA YOGA is the real "fire rite" often extolled in the BHAGAVAD
GITA. The purifying fires of yoga bring eternal illumination, and
thus differ much from outward and little-effective religious fire
ceremonies, where perception of truth is oft burnt, to solemn
chanted accompaniment, along with the incense!
The advanced yogi, withholding all his mind, will, and feeling from
false identification with bodily desires, uniting his mind with
superconscious forces in the spinal shrines, thus lives in this
world as God hath planned, not impelled by impulses from the past
nor by new witlessnesses of fresh human motivations. Such a yogi
receives fulfillment of his Supreme Desire, safe in the final haven
of inexhaustibly blissful Spirit.
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic
bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true
yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel
consumed by love divine. The Ultimate Flame receives the sacrifice
of all human madness, and man is pure of dross. His bones stripped
of all desirous flesh, his karmic skeleton bleached in the antiseptic
suns of wisdom, he is clean at last, inoffensive before man and
Maker.
Referring to yoga's sure and methodical efficacy, Lord Krishna
praises the technological yogi in the following words: "The yogi
is greater than body-disciplining ascetics, greater even than the
followers of the path of wisdom (JNANA YOGA), or of the path of
action (KARMA YOGA); be thou, O disciple Arjuna, a yogi!" {FN26-14}
{FN26-1} The noted scientist, Dr.
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