Publisher's Synopsis
"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms. This knowledge - This feeling is at the center of true religiousness." A quote by Albert Einstein, from a talk he gave in 1954, about the mystical experience of original insight; and the religious feeling of true understanding.
There is an old saying to the effect that life is a gamble! a gamble in which we participate from moment to moment. In order to gamble one must be a player in a game - a game of which the outcome is uncertain. In a gamble there is something at stake on a contingency. So a gambler is one who takes a chance. Are you willing to take the chance and venture into the game? Of course, in order to be a player in a game one must first submit to learning the rules, regulations, methods and discipline of play, and so it is with life!
A contingency is an event that is of possible but uncertain occurrence. Something that is liable to happen because of....That because of is Karma! Karma is a happening by unforeseen causes, dependent on or conditioned by something else. Karmic vibrations are set up according to our actions throughout our lifetime. This is the force that is held in both Buddhism and Hinduism to perpetuate transmigration and its ethical consequences to determine ones destiny in this and future lives. The field of play for the game is the world cycle, of which the present age is the Kali Yuga, better known as the Age of Iron, at which point manifestation has reached its most hardened and materialistic state of being. Because of the starkness of this age all the Ashrams have been opened to accept the thousands of confused seekers. For, during this Kali age, Maya (illusion) holds a relentless rein on our perceptions. And so we find that life becomes a constant interaction between personality and environment; and, how the personality (ego) perceives the environment.
The Yoga philosophy is defined as the means by which one attains Samadhi, through union with the Higher Self which will ultimately lead to union with The Universal Spirit, The Logos! Samadhi is a state of consciousness wherein all mental activity ceases and one is totally absorbed in the object of meditation. The state of true meditation is reached when the mind has achieved to a state of concentrated consciousness. At this point the mind is cleared of all the many various thoughts that are constantly popping in and out of the head.
