Maha Yoga - WHO

followed by judicious eating) the mind will become pure and steady, and remain so.”

Answer to a pragmatist. Question: “If all men renounce, then who will plough and harvest the crops?”

Answer: “Realise the True Self and thus see for yourself.”

This is a general answer to all such questions.

Sense of difficulty. “A method will appear easy or difficult to one, according to whether one has practised it before or not.”

To the levellers: “The surest way to achieve perfect equality is to go to sleep!”

Birth-Control versus Morality. Question: “Is birthcontrol inimical to morality?” Answer: “The Maha Bharata says that the more one yields to desire, the more insatiable it will become.”

On going forward or backward. Someone remarked that it is easy to go forward, but impossible to go backward.

The Sage said: “However far one goes, one is just where one always is. Where is moving forward or backward? The Isa Upanishad (verse 5) says: ‘It is far, and It is also near!”

Divine power for healing disease, etc. “There is no need to ‘take in’ divine power for any purpose. It is already in you.

It is You.” Waking and dream compared. “The dream-world interests the dreamer because he takes it to be an objective reality, outside of and different from himself. The waking man is interested in his waking world for the same reason. If by Experience of the True Self he comes to know that the world is but a thought-form, it will cease to interest him.”

Does the world exist? “There is a difference between the saying that the world exists and the saying that it is real,” says the Sage. The latter does not contradict the seemingly opposite one, that the world is unreal, whereas the former does so. The 205