...Religion sets an immeasurable gulf between the Power ...worshipped and the worshipper.
Yoga in its culmination abolishes the gulf.
Essentially, Yoga is a generic name for the processes and the result of processes
by which we transcend or shred off our present modes of being
and rise to a new, a higher, a wider mode of consciousness
which is not that of the ordinary animal and intellectual man.
Yoga is the exchange of an egoistic for a universal or cosmic consciousness
lifted towards or informed by the supra-cosmic, transcendent Unnameable
who is the source and support of all things.
Yoga is the passage of the human thinking animal
towards the God-consciousness from which he has descended.
Nature seeks the Divine in her own symbols;
Yoga goes beyond Nature to the Lord of Nature, beyond universe to the Transcendent
and can return with the transcendent light and power, with the fiat of the Omnipotent.
But what Nature aims at for the mass in a slow evolution,
Yoga effects for the individual by a rapid revolution.
It works by a quickening of all her energies, a sublimation of all her faculties.
In the past it has been attempted by a drawing away from the world
and a disappearance into the height of the Self or Spirit.
