The Secret of Being Happy-26. - Swami Krishnananda

(Spoken on October 19, 1972)

 26.

Yoga is very difficult to practise.

Very few have succeeded in its attempt.

It is very difficult because one cannot even understand what it is.

The more we think about it, the more crazy we become because it is not an ordinary way of thinking.

It is a supernormal way of thinking that is called yoga.

But we want to content ourselves with ordinary thinking, like a man on the street.

We have the bazaar way of thinking, the commercial way of thinking, the shopkeeper’s way of thinking.

That has not left us, and yet we want Truth.

That is not possible.

As long as we cling to the old, idiotic way of thinking which measures things in quantitative terms and establishes commercial relationships with the objects, so long happiness is far from us.

Yoga is not for us.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...