Microsoft Word - Taimni - The Science of Yoga.doc

When we are in the realm of Infinity we are not in the realm of magnitudes at all. So
the Jivanmukta is not really in the realm of knowledge but has transcended knowledge
and passed into the realm of pure consciousness. Knowledge is produced by the impo-
sition of mental limitations on pure consciousness, and so even the highest kind of
knowledge cannot be compared with the Enlightenment which comes when all these
limitations are removed and the Yogi passes into the realm of pure consciousness. The
relation of knowledge and Enlightenment is analogous to the relation of Time and
Eternity Eternity is not time of infinite extent but a state which transcends Time alto-
gether The two states do not belong to the same category.
It may be pointed out here that all the real mysteries of Life which we try to un-
ravel by the help of the intellect are really rooted in the Eternal and are expressions in
terms of Time and Space of realities which exist in their true form (Svarupa) in the
Eternal. That is why it is not possible to solve any real problem of Life as long as our
consciousness is confined within the realm of the unreal, and much less so, while it is
still confined within the narrow and cramping limitations of the intellect. The so-called
intellectual solutions of our problems which academic philosophy seeks to provide are
no solutions at all but merely statements of the same problems in different terms which
really push back the problems to a deeper level. The only effective way to solve all
these problems is to dive into our own consciousness by the help of the technique out-
lined in the Yogic philosophy and to free our consciousness from all limitations which
obscure its Self-illumination. In the Light of the Eternal alone can all problems of Life
be solved, because as said above, they are all rooted in the Eternal. To be more exact,
the problems are not solved in the Light of the Eternal consciousness, solution being a
process characteristic of the illusion-bound intellect. They are resolved. They are no
longer there, for they were shadows cast by the intellect in the realm of the unreal and
naturally cannot exist in the domain of the Real.
It also follows from what has been said above that the Mystery of Life cannot
be unravelled piecemeal. We cannot break up this Great Mystery into a number of
component problems and then proceed to solve these problems, one by one, although
this is what modern philosophy attempts to do. The resolution of the Mystery depends
upon obtaining the synthetic vision of the Eternal and not upon putting together the
separate and partial solutions obtained by the analytical processes of the intellect. It is
a question of ‘All or none’.