The Yoga of knowledge

the Yoga of knowledge is a work of Constant Kerneïz of 1955 which introduces with the philosophy of the Yoga.

Chapters

First part

Chapter 1. Critical of the knowledge of the outside world
The existence of the Outside world is only one assumption unverifiable because the wall of our feelings does not open any day to us on the outside. Space and Time are only forms of our thought; they do not represent anything apart from us. What we call the Matter is only one name given to our feelings.

Chapter 2. Critical of the Reason
Reason, machine to be thought, and its principal instrument: the language. Examination criticizes feelings and their transformation into general Ideas. The Time and the Space, Numeration and the Geometry. The Law of Causality; the Law of the Great Numbers. Doctrines of the Karma.

Chapter 3. The intermediate world
An intermediate World enters the Matière and the Esprit: vital fluid or Prana. It forms outside part of the world. The body pranic of the Man and his bodies or Chakra S. Intellect and the Heart. Functional personalities and their role.

Second part

Chapter 4. The exploration of the interior world Psyché is identified with our Ego, the world of the time opposed to the world of space. The thought symbolic system. Thepure ones are ideas without symbols. Definition of the ego. The ego is not the Me. The Individual S and the Species S. How space controls the individual and connects it with the circle of the rebirths.

Chapter 5. Critical of the personality
Me-Conscience-existence. Three methods of the Ego: take care, light sleep, deep sleep. Distinction enters the Ego and the Personality. Multiple Personalities. The case of the haunted houses. The apologue of Padma and Lila. How, in the multiple forms of Egos, same Ego appears in all the places and all Times.

Third part

Chapter 6. The way of the Religion
Independent of Intellect, the religious feeling is innate in the heart of the Man. The religious feeling is single, but the Religions vary. The Mysticisme is the heart of the Religion. Fanaticism and broadness of outlook. The Hindu Religion.

Chapter 7. The way of the occultism
Occultism, science of the hidden things. Esotericism and experimental Occultism. Métapsychique. Spontaneous phenomena and caused phenomena. Unknown or ignored natural Faculties. The Occultisme does not reveal any reality, it makes us pass in a system of thought different from ours.

Chapter 8. The way of the detachment
It is the canted Attachment which attaches us to false Knowledge. It is not possible to stick to an illusion as soon as she is recognized commce such. Difficult technique of the Detachment, according to the teaching of Patanjali. The Detachment once carried out, the Goal of Yoga is reached: union of Knowing and Known, the Magnet and the Aime.

Chapter 9. The attack of the goal
The way of the Release is difficult; temptations, traps, watch for us at every moment there. The disappointing mirage of the Science layman. Crises of euphoria and depression; “black periods”. The road is not continuous, one proceeds to it only by jumps. The happy stage of the Bliss. The great test of the Vacuum coincides with the attack of the Goal.

Work

This work of Kerneïz is a very good introduction to the philosophy of the Yoga. Written in a sober style and supported by a rich person culture, the author shows with the manner of Descartes how our knowledge is skewed by our feelings and how yoga is an effective solution to release itself from the world of the directions. The author, to make us adhere effectively to Indian philosophy, makes his demonstration while following the advance of Descartes in the Méditations Metaphysics . He starts from this report so widespread to India since unmemorable times, with through the philosophy of Shankya, that knowledge by the feeling is false. For proof, our directions induce us in error: feelings not corresponding always to the reality of the Object. With is the touch, alcohol with 90° appears hot, really? Mixed blue and the yellow appear green although they are different wavelengths in the luminous spectrum. Thus, “what is called nowadays Science is only one coherent accumulation of illusions” being founded on the directions, the experiment. It is thus necessary “to demolish, by denying it, the prison built by our system of thought. ” The pure reason (released from affectivity) is thus offered like a system of higher knowledge, it is that of the idea, the language. Moreover, he is general whereas the feeling, it, is individual. Intellect is used to digest the directions and to make them readable. Thus our identity, Ego, do not belong entirely to the material world with a physical body which corresponds to the directions, answers a body energy or pranic, corresponding to the Ego. These two bodies are not hermetic, they correspond. They are governed by similar laws: the Natural laws are those of the Reason. Two worlds appear: that of the outside (Space, the body, geometry), that of the inside (Time, the spirit, the arithmetic one).

Our body pranic is composed of bodies called Chakra S. These bodies are the source of our mental. There without knowing them, the psychoanalysis finds there the seat of our disorders. It is necessary to learn how to control these will chakras which can become autonomous, parasitic and to make emerge in us personalities say seconds. An individual materialist is controlled by his will muladhara will chakra , this body of the Species, the Race, controls our animal instincts in his own interest: the reproduction is used to safeguard the Species (our body) but night with the individual (Ego) when it is subjected to it. The Species has a personality which one names Egrégore (gregarious Ego), it appears by the Culture, the Fatherland. The man is a compound of the Species and the Individual: the Species, which appears by its instincts, is immortal and sits in its will chakras; the Individual who is mortal, seat in the reason. The individual makes the error adapt the instincts which are the diktats of the Species. The goal of the individual being emancipation of the matter. The confrontation of both name Puberté. The individual will have after this phase, “his” personality final: the Artist and the Intellectual are the large winners of the Species, they are autonomous and live for the Idea: they act on the events. The Society man, is the loser, attache with the raw material by appearing it and the need to illustrate itself: he undergoes the events although he believes to cause them. If the Instinct belongs to the Species, the Intuition belongs only to the individual, it is the natural religion. The individual who develops his intuition, learning the control from its will chakras can reach the release and even develop supernatural faculties (each will chakra being the seat of a element).

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