Swami Krishnananda - Textbook of Yoga, @Yoga
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A TEXTBOOK OF YOGA
by
S
WAMI
K
RISHNANANDA
The Divine Life Society
Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India
Website: swami-krishnananda.org
ABOUT THIS EDITION
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Page size dimensions are 5.5" x 8.5", or half a regular size
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CONTENTS
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Chapter 1
THE TRUE NATURE OF OUR EXISTENCE
Philosophy is supposed to be the investigation into the
causes of phenomena which are around us and in which we
also are involved. We see things happening, events taking
place, but mostly we do not know why they occur at all. We
can observe winds blowing, rain falling, the sun getting hot,
etc. as a routine affair in our daily life, but many of us will not
be able to explain why the winds should blow. Why should it
rain a particular time? Why is the sun hot or cold, as the case
may be? Why are things what they are? Questions of this kind
have often evinced or evoked no proper answer. We find
ourselves many a time helpless in knowing what is
happening at all in this world, and why we are what we are.
The only thing that seems to be impinging upon us and
has a direct effect upon our life is a series of troubles,
responsibilities, difficulties, problems and the like, which we
confront every day. Even if we are daily confronting
problems, responsibilities and troubles, many of us, educated
though we may be, may not know what our problems are.
People many a time complain of difficulties in life. If we ask
them, “Give a list of all your difficulties,” they will not be able
to make a list. There is a chaos even in thinking about one’s
daily confrontations. “What are your problems, sir, about
which you are daily complaining? Tell me all your problems.
How many are they?” It will be very difficult to enumerate
these problems. Even those problems which we are facing
daily with open eyes do not seem to be very clear to our
mind.
Our ancient seers and masters have boiled down all these
problems or confrontations in life to three categories:
troubles that arise from within our own selves, troubles that
arise from people and living beings outside, and troubles that
arise from sources that are usually called celestial in their
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