Science is everything. Or is it? Yoga is.

How on earth is it possible to know what is true, and what isn’t?

I suspect impossible. On earth, anyway. Earth is only one tiny planet, the universe is… well, we don’t know how large, or even, for that matter (pun intended) what the “facts” are.

So for me it makes 100% sense to not dismiss anything outright, except knowing that we don’t know. Opinions about what is and what isn’t is, simply put, limiting. Extremely limiting, and dangerous. Even lethally so. Opinion is dualistic, narrowing, devolution. Like an analogy that, sooner or later, breaks down.

Why I value yoga, as a metaphysical body-mind-spirit system, so much, is because it values, above all, the whole. Everything. Infinitely so. It argues, very reasonably, that the whole has to be considered before true knowing occurs. This investigation into holism is the essential nature, or science, of yoga.

One may, or may not find God there. That is a matter of being, it simply cannot be a proving, believing, or not believing thing. In debate there can be no valid dispute that “we” are “body, mind and spirit”. Call it what you may, but we are material, the seen, and energy, for lack of better word, or the unseen. I feel totally safe with hedging my bet on a holistic model of a non-dualistic universal system of multi-verses, an infinite (whatever that actually is), or Prana.

And I am most certainly here, in this aspect of duality, in the flesh, contemplating and existing here. Quantum science, inner knowing, yoga and meditation confirms for me that this reality is an aspect of a holographic prism that may just be the Godhead of the ancient and timeless yogi’s. I also call it consciousness. Buddha nature. Personally I don’t want to limit my options or yours, by thinking or saying more than this.

Meditate and Know?

Wishing you much yoga insight,
Muizenberg beach, Cape Town,
4 November 2015.