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The Process of Yoga : 4.4 - Swami Krishnananda

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================================================================ Tuesday, 05 Dec 2023 05:30. Yoga and Meditation Chapter 4: The Psychology of Yoga-4. ================================================================ Do you know why our whole personality is not revealed in waking life? Because there is social censor – the reality, as it is called in psychoanalysis. The reality of the world censors many of our experiences. Just as our mail can be censored and those letters which are objectionable in their nature may not be delivered, objectionable desires and experiences are not delivered into conscious experience due to social censor. This is the reason why we bury many of our experiences within us, and keep ourselves locked up within a prison house created by our own selves, so that we have a private personality which is independent of our public personality. We are different in our house from what we are in our office. When we return from the office, we speak with our family members in