The object of our Fourfold
Yoga is self-perfection, as Yoga is the Art of Conscious Self finding
!
We are the centers and knots of Divine Consciousness, as this world is
a movement of Brahman in His own being. The Universe is one of the rhythms of
Brahman, His play with His own conscious delight, with the infinities of
existence and the splendours ofKnowledge. He alone exists in se, free, absolute,
eternal and perfect, He who is self ruler ( swarat ) and all ruler ( samrat ).
We are the self multiplications of that conscious Delight, thrown into being to
be His playmates in the eternal Vrindavan, which is the Universe. This world is
merely a formula, a rhythm and a symbol system expressing the Lord to Himself in
His own self consciousness. We are like Him, in our outward being, terms of that
formula, symbols of that system and notes of that rhythm and in our inward
Being, one with His eternal essence, with Absolute Being-Knowledge-Bliss, with
Sat Chit Ananda. Let us lead forward the Lord’s movement, play out His play,
work out His formula, execute His harmony and express Him through ourselves in
His grand system, by His Grace. This is our joy and self fulfillment and the
culminating point of the Evolution of Consciousness of humanity.
We have
to work out perfection and accomplish harmony. But we find that here we are
confronted by the negative qualities. Ignorance, imperfection, gried,
limitation, matter etc are merely the first terms of that formula. We have to
reinterpret the formulary to find out the inner esoteric meaning. Why the
negative qualities, when He has been defined as Positive ? These negative
qualities are merely the initial discords of that Grand Musician’s harmony.
Our aim is to construct perfection out of imperfection, to find infinity
out of limitation, immortality in lieu of death, Bliss out of this sorrow of the
temporal, Self Knowledge out of this welter of Ignorance and to discover Spirit
out of this ocean of inconscient Matter. The noble objective of the
Fourfold Yoga, therefore, is to work out this divine end for ourselves and for
our brethren, so that this Earth becomes a Paradise of Bliss.