Not a Yoga of world-shunning asceticism

Not a Yoga of world-shunning asceticism  

You have apparently a call and may be fit for Yoga; but there are different paths and each has a different aim and end before it. It is common to all the paths to conquer the desires, to put aside the ordinary relations of life, and to try to pass from uncertainty to everlasting certitude. One may also try to conquer dream and sleep, thirst and hunger; etc. But it is no part of my Yoga to have nothing to do transform life by bringing down into it the Light, Power and Bliss of the divine Truth and its dynamic certitudes. This Yoga is not a Yoga of world-shunning asceticism, but of divine life. YOur object, on the other hand, can only be gained by entering into Samdhi and ceasing in it from all connection with world-existence.

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Yoga  is not a technique

What is perfect technique of yoga or rather of a world-changing or Nature-changing yoga? Not one that takes a man by little bit of him somewhere, attacks a hook, and pulls him up by a pulley into Nirvana or Paradise. The technique of a world-changing yoga has to be as multiform, sinuous, patient, all-including as the world itself. If  it does not deal with each necessary element, has it any chance of success? And can a perfect technique which everybody can understand do that? It is not like writing a small poem in a fixed metre with a limited number of modulations. If you take the poem simile, it is Mahabharata of a Mahabharata that has to be done. And what, compared with the limited Greek perfection, is the technique of the Mahabharata?

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