November 11, 2026
I look into myself and it seems that the personality is in fragments, broken into a thousand pieces. Is my personality really broken into pieces? Has my freedom, knowledge, enlightenment been completely obliterated? If it has been, nothing is going to save me! Looking within myself, I feel that that may not be true. I am only suggesting that it may not be true.
To give you an apt illustration, you are standing on the bank of a river on a beautiful moonlit night. The moon is reflected on the water, but you don't see it as a lovely little white disc — it is broken — the surface of the water is agitated. There lies the key.
The yogi realizes that the personality has not really been fragmented, but that the fragmentation is apparent. It is due to the fact that the mind is not calm. A calm mind is virtue, and on, mind, no matter how holy that person may look, is the source of all evil. We all enjoy a calm mind and sleep, but since we are unaware of the calmness it is of no use to us. Yogi tries deliberately to reproduce, create this calmness while he is awake. He captures a glimpse of that wholeness, inner harmony, homogeneity. From then on his life is a continuous search for this inner harmony.