The Process of Yoga : 1. Swami Krishnananda
Saturday, June 20, 2020. 07:15 AM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life-1. 1. Spirituality is the condition of the spirit. This definition would be indication enough as to whether we have to live a life spiritual or not. The nature of the spirit is, therefore, what we mean by ‘the spiritual’. And if we are to have a knowledge of the spirit, we shall also know whether it is necessary to be spiritual or whether it is possible for us to conduct ourselves in any manner other than the spiritual. 2. The spirit is what we generally call the essence or the substance of anything. We generally put a question: “What is the spirit of the whole situation?” “What is the spirit of what that person spoke?” and so on, by which we mean that the spirit of anything is the quintessential substance of that particular thing. The spirit, therefore, differs from the form, from the letter, and from the appearance. 3. While we try to investigate into the nature of the spirit in order to know what ‘the spiritual’ is, we