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Change of consciousness
Yoga is a means by which one arrives at union with the Truth
behind things through an inner discipline which leads us from the
consciousness of the outward and apparent to the consciousness
of the inner and real. Yoga consciousness does not exclude the
knowledge of the outer apparent world but it sees it with the eyes
of an inner, not an outer seeing and experience, alters and sets
right all its values in the light of an inner deeper greater truer con-
sciousness and applies to it the Law of the reality, exchanging the
law of the creature's Ignorance for the rule of a divine Will and
Knowledge.
A change of consciousness is the whole meaning of the pro-
cess of Yoga[.]…
Yoga is the science, the process, the eff ort and action by which
man attempts to pass out of the limits of his ordinary mental con-
sciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness[.]
CWSA 12: 327

Key to an inner larger consciousness
Any psychic discipline by which we can pass partly or wholly
into a spiritual state of the consciousness, any spontaneous or
systematised approach to the inner Reality or the supreme Real-
ity, any state of union or closeness to the Divine, any entry into a
consciousness larger, deeper or higher than the normal conscious-
ness common to humankind, fall automatically within the range
of the word Yoga. Yoga takes us from the surface into the depths
of our consciousness or it admits us into its very centre; it takes
us up to the hidden topmost heights of our conscious being. It
shows to us the secrets of the Self and the secret of the Divine. It
gives us the knowledge, the vision, the presence of the Immanent
and the Cosmic and the Transcendent Reality; that is its supreme
purpose.
CWSA 12: 329

All India Magazine, September 2020