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Yoga as a Universal Science-11-2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ====================================================================================== Saturday 10, May 2025, 07:00. Books Yoga & Meditation Yoga as a Universal Science-11-2. Chapter 11: Individual Disciplining of One's Own Self - 2 Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== "The Glory of Contentment": When one is pure in mind, pure in speech and pure in body, there is a contentment arising from oneself. There is santosha. It is very essential that one should be happy under any circumstance. This is very important. If a person is weighed down heavily with some grief or sorrow, and he becomes melancholy and moody, and gets into a state of weeping and crying, and is not able to sleep because of the sorrow that is eating into his vitals, how could he do any meditation? How is it possible for him to practise asana, pranayama, pratyahara? Though it is well said and easily said that one has to be happy, it is...