Sadhguru - enduring union via yoga

May 22 eve

This perfection of geometry can be attained in many different ways. Through intellect, through emotion, through energy, through sheer perfection of action, and above all through devotion – all these are essentially tools to come to a state of abandon. Only when you abandon your personality, which is a pile of karmic impressions, you are in a state of union with the rest of the cosmos. - See more at: http://www.sadhguruonline.com/blog/a-perfect-union#sthash.ZEcoXhBM.dpuf

A human being experiences even just an incremental sense of perfection only in some state of union. If this longing for union finds physical expression, it gets termed as sexuality. If it finds an emotional expression, it is called love or compassion. If it finds expression through one’s mental framework, it gets termed as success, conquest, or, these days, shopping. But if it finds an enduring expression of one’s being, it is called yoga.

There is always a longing for union. Whether someone is running after wealth, money, conquest, success, pleasure, or intoxication – it is just out of a longing for union. But these are inefficient ways of union. Yoga is not against anything except inefficiency. Having been on the top of the pile of evolution on this planet, we as human beings are expected to function a little more intelligently and in a little more competent way. For ages, people have attempted to come to a state of union that way, but it has never really worked for anyone. I want all of you to take this vow within yourself that we as a generation will do things in an enduring way. If we achieve union, we achieve union in an enduring way. This is something that all of you have to take deep into your hearts and minds.