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Yoga is not a modern invention of the human mind, but our
\nancient and prehistoric possession. The Veda is our oldest extant human document
\nand the Veda, from one point of view, is a great compilation of practical hints
\nabout Yoga. All religion is a flower of which Yoga is the root; all philosophy,
\npoetry & the works of genius use it, consciously or unconsciously, as an
\ninstrument. We believe that God created the world by Yoga and by Yoga He will
\ndraw it into Himself again. Yogah prabhavapyayau, Yoga is the birth and passing
\naway of things. When Srikrishna reveals to Arjuna the greatness of His creation
\nand the manner in which He has built it out of His being by a reconciliation of
\nlogical opposites, he says "Pasya me yogam aishwaram", Behold my divine Yoga. We
\nusually attach a more limited sense to the word; when we use or hear it, we
\nthink of the details of Patanjali’s system, of rhythmic breathing, of peculiar
\nways of sitting, of concentration of mind, of the trance of the adept. But these
\nare merely details of particular systems. The systems are not the thing itself,
\nany more than the water of an irrigation canal is the river Ganges. Yoga may be
\ndone without the least thought for the breathing, in any posture or no posture,
\nwithout any insistence on concentration, in the full waking condition, while
\nwalking, working, eating, drinking, talking with others, in any occupation, in
\nsleep, in dream, in states of unconsciousness, semi-consciousness,
\ndouble-consciousness. It is no nostrum or system or fixed practice, but an
\neternal fact of process based on the very nature of the Universe. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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Nevertheless in practice the name may be limited to certain
\napplications of this general process for specific and definite ends. Yoga stands
\nessentially on the fact that in this world we are everywhere one, yet divided;
\none yet divided in our being, one with yet divided from our fellow creatures of
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yet divided from the infinite existence which we call God, Nature
\nor Brahman. Yoga, generally, is the power which the soul in one body has of entering into effective relation with other souls,
\nwith parts of itself which are behind the waking consciousness, with forces of Nature and objects in Nature, with the Supreme
\nIntelligence, Power & Bliss which governs the world either for the sake of that union in itself or for the purpose of increasing
\nor modifying our manifest being, knowledge, faculty, force or delight. Any system which organises our inner being & our outer
\nframe for these ends may be called a system of Yoga.  
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