What is the goal of yoga ?
It may be said that the goal of yoga is to bring about a complete harmony within the individual, due to the cessation of the process of desire and achievement, as a result of realization of the futility of that process. It is a state of separation from misery and sorrow, a state of silence and peace. But it becomes almost impossible for most of us to attain such a state, because the minds of most of us are endlessly caught up in wishful thinking, and seeking security, prestige, power, permanent and lasting pleasure, and so on. We thus ever carry a burden caused by desires, cravings, hopes and asp, greed, envy, and what not. It becomes very difficult to understand clearly how this burden and tension is essentially of our own making, because our beliefs, judgments and conclusions, hardly ever permit us to think in a free manner. We are conditioned by the beliefs we unknowingly gather from our parents, friends, teachers, leaders, and other influential members of the society. This process of conditioning has a very overwhelming influence on almost every child born in society. The goal of yoga is to put an end to this conditioning, seeking and grief. An individual then stops looking at the problems he confronts, through what others have said, and he starts understanding any situation as it is. But all this indeed remains beyond the grasp of most of us, because we lack sensitivity and simplicity of mind. It is therefore that individuals who reach the goal of yoga are very rare in any society.
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