The Process of Yoga: 5.4. - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================================================== Yoga and Meditation The Process of Yoga: Swami Krishnananda Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice - 4. ===================================================================================== We have become very soft in the texture of our personality. Hardship is unknown to us. Difficulties cannot be faced, and even the first kick that we receive from nature is taken as hell falling on our heads. The spiritual path is a path of hardship in the sense that it is one of discipline, because it is a voluntary submission of oneself to the demands of the soul rather than the desires of the mind. The desires of the mind are different from the demand of our soul. We have completely closed our eyes to the latter and are fully engaged in the former. We sometimes mistake the call of the soul for the askings of the mind. The mind is always connected with the objects of sense, while the soul always aspires to...
