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PREFACE
So MANY Books on Yoga have appeared during the past fifty years or so that the reader may well ask himself the question: Is there any need for yet another book on the subject? This is the sort of question which the present book attempts to answer. It seems to be in the very nature of Yoga to become different things to different people, with the result that, quite often, what used to be in the past a Sacred and Pure Science has simply become a very shallow and, sometimes, even a very unsightly thing; so far remote, in fact, from Yoga that it is virtually unrecognizable.
It has been said that “those people who do not know the real nature of human life, and as a result constantly pursue the objects of worldly desire, remain involved in the darkness of ignorance concerning the realities of life. In still greater darkness remain those who, mistaking theoretical knowledge concerning Reality for the Reality itself, are intent upon the pursuit of such knowledge without making earnest effort to End that Reality by direct Realization.