Page 284 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Reality is something to be 'known' and not merely its truth. Truth, as we have been defining it, is just the correspondence of our thought to a thing- whatever may be the details of such examination of correspondence- according to the logicians who are wedded to theories of partial application and adjusted to the objective phenomenalistic views. Reality being more important, and being something that is the content of truth as such, it is necessary to know Reality. The procedure is a little inverted, for we do not arrive at Reality through truth but arrive at truth through Reality.
Yoga, as a psychological methodology of knowing Reality, has not been fully considered by most scholars. Obviously they did not think of Yoga as a school or method of knowing reality or even intuiting it; but they though of it as an athletic of being or well being, or of entering into certain states of abnormal experience and existence.
Yoga is, as it implies, the method of direct linkage with reality. Direct linking of oneself with the Ultimate Reality is the only way by which Reality can be known. Reality cannot be known through any phenomenalistic mediations. Yuj 'to connect', means to connect oneself with Reality by divesting oneself of all other methods in vogue which only bring about separation or rather disconnection (viyoga). Yoga, thus, is a means of connecting oneself with the Ultimate, and all yogas or kinds of yoga (samyoga)-whether obtained through cognition (sensory organs), or affectivity (aesthetic experience-producing organs) or conativity (impelling one to act on objects)-are to be entirely operated from the direct intuitive level of being.
Thus arises the psychological necessity for having clearly before us the object of our experience; the means to be utilized for gaining or attaining this experience of the object in its real state or condition; and the purpose of this attainment. The last, namely the purpose of our endeavor, has to be clearly borne in mind. The purpose can be said to be knowing Reality as it is, for itself, and in itself; and also in a secondary sense of what it is for us, who are of the real. This has been the immediate concern of most seekers: what is the next for knowing reality if it is not for some kind of experience which is happiness or efficiency? Or at least to procure for us freedom from misery or continuing sorrow? Or to help us to evade or avoid all future