We don't believe it is for our good in these promises. The so-called "good" doesn't feel good sometimes!
That's what I said, so many things are influencing our mind; our ethnic background, our cultural background, all this is influencing us. Therefore we have got to go to the primordial culture, to the cosmic culture. That's all man-made you see; ethnic background that we have created, this is man-made. What is "cosmos-made?" We must follow that and that will make our life smoother and smoother.
Basically what the human being requires is physical and mental wellbeing, peace of mind and wisdom. Nobody on this planet Earth, in any region, is without these aspirations. Savages and wealthy metropolitans aspire for physical-mental wellbeing, mental peace, tranquillity, wisdom and knowledge. Why only wisdom? We aspire to become omniscient. We want to know everything; this is the human desire. This is universal, whatever culture, whatever ethnic background, whatever economic standards. This is not going to change.
So we must work for these three aspects: How can we evolve? How can we get physical-mental wellbeing, peace and tranquillity and wisdom and knowledge? Once you go after them, you have to see that. That's the way yoga is one complete science; I call it "complete science of humanics." I call it "a complete science of human being," because yoga deals with all the three.
So many sciences have come for physical-mental wellbeing. There is medicine, dietetics, science of exercises, sports, games; they are all there for your physical wellbeing. But then they don't attend to other aspects. There are some sciences that are for psychological, the mental peace and tranquillity but then they neglect the body. Those who get mental peace suffer from a weak body, an antagonizing body. Those who go after wisdom; well, you know what their fate is: most brilliant people are physically disabled, physically weak. So those efforts are all lop-sided. If you go in pursuit of knowledge, you lose the other two. If you go in pursuit of physical wellbeing, you lose the other two. If you go in pursuit of mental peace, you lose the other two. So it is only through an integrated science, if you adhere to it, that you will be getting all the three.
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