Yogi’s Unresolved Issues

As it does for everyone else, unresolved issues always assail a yogi. As soon as an issue is satisfactorily resolved, another pops up. This happens without fail. It occurs from the time a body is acquired to the death of that form.

The infant, as soon as it is delivered through the mother’s passage is confronted with the issue of nutrition. “What will I suck?” the infant thinks. The elderly person as soon as there is major organ failure is confronted with the issue of being evicted from being that physical persona. “Can surgery repair this?” the aged body thinks. In between infancy and the elderly condition, there is one issue after the other.

For a yogi who is Bhagavad Gita based, it is clear that the challenges will continue endlessly. The yogi must participate to some degree but it is a question of how much to get involved and when to withdraw. In the beginning of the Gita discourse, Arjuna wanted to withdraw fully. He even questioned Krishna’s encouragement for participation. Later he indicated that Krishna was contradictory for suggesting on one hand that a person should be detached and then also saying that a person should participate.

Some yogis feel that if they persist with a problem it will be resolved and that after that resolution, that circumstance will cease forever. This idea is based on fantasy.

There is no problem which will be fixed forever because all energy in the problem will remain in the universe and will be plough under by material nature. It will be recycled into being a new challenge in the near or distant future.

Think of the proposal of science, which is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If it is not here, we cannot manufacture it. If it is here, we cannot destroy it. Our manipulation or utility of energy is totally superficial.

This means that the motive for participating in a circumstance in the hope of resolving it has to be something other than thinking that the issue will be resolved. In this universe because of the looming energy of infinity, there will never be total resolution of anything. This is endless. Even when this cosmos is expended as manifest time, still its summary energy will continue either silently or violently until another cosmic display present itself with fresh issues.

Hence it is nonsensical for a yogi to feel that he or she will resolve anything or that by participating a circumstance will reach a conclusion. Participate if you must but do so without feeling that you will fix this. Do not be ridiculous. Do not impress on anyone not even on yourself that if given enough time, you will correct this.

And know for sure, that you are unnecessary!