no Yoga of devotion without. the human God-lover, the supreme object of love and delight and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of spiritual, emotional and aesthetic enjoyment; no Yoga of works without the human worker, the supreme Will, Master of all. works and sacrifices, and the divine use by the individual of the universal faculties of power and action.’ please help me understand dada.
Yoga implies that to begin with there is a state of separation. This separation awakens the need for union because deep within there always is oneness. We are not aware of this oneness. We are aware of the separation and consciously or unconsciously seek the union. Yoga is the means to achieve this union. Obviously then there has to be a seeker seeking union with the Divine as the Source of All-knowledge, or a lover seeking union with the Divine as the very source of All-Love, or a dynamic worker who seeks union with the Source of All-Power that is to say, the Lord and Master of All-works.
The Divine who is the Source of all things including ourselves becomes therefore the object of the seeking.
How is this union to be accomplished and what happens after the union? Here comes the third part. The union is affected by a divine use of the powers of knowledge, love and works given to us by cosmic Divine. Instead of using them for satisfying our selfish egoistic needs we should turn these our intellectual and mental, emotional and aesthetic, the vital and physical being as an instrument and channel of the Divine so that the Divine can pour His Knowledge, Love, Delight, Power upon the world, through the human vessel growing more and more perfect by the Yoga. This is what is meant by the Divine use.
This then is the path and the goal, turning our human faculties towards the Divine for His use and having united with the Divine, to become a conscious channel for the Divine fulfilment of earthly life.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
