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exercising them. To yield to popular demand in this respect is to deviate from the path of realisation.
Impatient though man is, yet it is good for him to learn to be patient and resigned to the natural development that has been initiated by the transmission of the Supreme Consciousness.
One thing seems to be axiomatic; our human consciousness is very much a limited, and spatially and temporally circumscribed, consciousness. Further what is revealed by it are related to matters of immediate concern to life and property, and is almost helpless beyond them. The cosmic consciousness is indeed different. Beyond that are levels of consciousness which might well be called by different names, for their descriptions seem to be inversions, or rather originals of our inverted consciousnesses. So much so, to speak of its powers and possibilities is beyond our consciousness itself.
As one proceeds on the path, one transcends the regions of light and heaviness, and attains regions of lightness and subtle original intuitions and insights where the light of our comprehension fades away, leaving us naked in the presence of the Supreme in all its Purity.
The abhorrence of isolation, or kaivalya, is one of the characteristics of the modern age. Man is conceived as inalienably a social being, and society is the very condition of human or of all existence. This social conception has influenced man's traditional values so much that the fact that he is an individual spirit, and that he has a trans-social function and destiny, are forgotten. Yoga has been accused of aiming at Kaivalya or isolation or freedom from all bonds, including the sangha or community. If ego is one barrier, sangha is the other. Both could be bonds for the man who seeks something more valuable than either, for example, God. The attainment of the purest state of spirituality is called kaivalya, and not what it had later on been considered to be, a kind of isolationism. It is similar to the ekantabhava or ekanti-bhava of soul and complete experience of Reality, as it is in itself, without any kind of limitation or subjectivity.
This experience, which goes beyond the levels of subjectivity - knowledge, and grants direct experience of Reality as such, is surely the most desirable. But logical thought is incapable of comprehending such an experience. It is