Love is the delight of conscious union with the Being in whom we live, act and move, by whom we exist ... knowledge is the foundation of a constant living in the Divine. ... Perfect knowledge indeed leads to perfect love,
Artists: Marlenka
In Rajayoga mind is the key. Although the first insistence is on a moral purification of the mentality: moral self-control ie. truth-speaking, non-killing, etc. to create a moral calm leading to death of egoism.
The basis for the higher aims of Hathayoga is a complete mastery of the body and the life and a freer and effective use of them, established upon a purification of their workings.
Hathayaga is founded on an intimate connection between body and soul. The whole aim is to give the soul in the physical body light, purity and freedom; it is a path, though long and difficult, to the Supreme.
For in a Yoga which embraces all life completely and without reserve, the full use of Samadhi comes only when its gains can be made the normal possession and experience in the human being.
"In Yoga various devices are used to seal up the doors of the physical sense (as in trance) .... but the one all-sufficient means is a force of concentration by which the mind is drawn inward ..."
The end of Yoga of Knowledge is God-possession, to possess God and be possessed by him through consciousness, through identification, not away from our present existence, the Divine in all things and in all beings
Fear, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind born of its sense of division and limitation ... the fully evolved soul will be one with all beings ... will approach and enter into this oneness by the gate of universal love ... "
There is at each step of the ascent from Matter to the highest Existence a reversal of consciousness. The joy of contact in diverse oneness becomes altogether the joy of absolute identity in innumerable oneness.
It is the Lord within who takes up the responsibility of the action adequate or inadequate, assumes its guidance and fixes its consequence.