of lightheartedness and joy. There is a spontaneous blos-
soming of intuition, insight, imagination, creativity,
meaning, and purpose. You make correct choices that
benefit not only you but also everyone affected by your
choices. When in the book of Matthew Jesus says, “My
yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” he is expressing the
core principle of yoga. His intelligence is aligned with
cosmic intelligence, his will with divine will.Traditionally, there are four forms of yoga: Gyan, Bhakti,
Karma,andRaja.Gyan yoga is the yoga of understanding.
The yoga of understanding is also the yoga of science.
(Science is after all, the knowledge of nature’s laws.)
The laws of nature are God’s thoughts. Science is God
explaining God to God through a human nervous system.
Science is not an enemy of spiritual awakening but rather
a potentially helpful friend. Today’s science reveals to us
the mysterious nonlocal domain where everything is
instantly correlated with everything else—where time,
space, matter, energy, and information resolve into a field
of pure potentiality. This is the realm where the immeas-
urable potential of all that was, all that is, and all that will
be manifests and differentiates into the seer and the
scenery, the observer and the observed, the knower and
the known.
The yoga of understanding has been referred to in the
Upanishads as the “razor’s edge,” and we are cautioned to
tread carefully on this path. As we gain understanding of
the laws of nature, we run the risk of arrogance. Arrogance
inflates the ego, and the ego overshadows the spirit. The
original sincere quest for discovery leads to an alienation
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