Yoga is freedom from that which you think yourself to be || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagvad Gita (2017)
न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्ध : कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ।।
श्रीमद भगवद गीता (४. ३८)
(Certainly, there is no purifier in this world like Knowledge.
A man who has become perfect in yoga, finds it within himself in course of time.)
Acharya Prashant: Krishna, brings us to Yoga, along with certain words – Knowledge, time, the self. Let us discover, what Yoga is, and what is the relationship of Yoga to knowledge, to time and to the self.
न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते ।
“Certainly, there is no purifier in this world like Knowledge” – It is always, easy to misinterpret, misunderstand a Krishna, a Buddha. They speak from their highness. We listen from where we are. And they too are confined by language. Though they are artists of language, though their language plays around, though their language breaches the of usual boundaries of meaning. Still, language is language, something man-made. And whatever is man-made, will always struggle is fully carrying the import of that which is beyond man, which is not man’s creation.
