The Yoga System - 9.2. - Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================================== Friday 09, October 2026, 05:00. Books Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Practice The Yoga System-9.2 Chapter 9: Pratyahara or AbstractionAbstraction-2. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== We also mistake pain for pleasure. When we are suffering, we are made to think that we are enjoying pleasures. In psychoanalytic terms, this is comparable to a condition of masochism, wherein one enjoys suffering. One is so much in sorrow that the sorrowful condition itself appears as a satisfaction. Man never has known what is true bliss, what happiness is, what joy is. He is born in sorrow, lives in sorrow and dies in sorrow. This grievous state he mistakes for a natural condition. "On account of the consequence that follows satisfaction of a desire, the anxiety attending upon the wish to perpetuate it, the impress...