22 ULTIMATE OBSTACLES
How we view the world—our worldview—is in the end the only thing
that decides whether we suffer or find real happiness.
It’s extremely important to realize that an entire civilization can be
caught up for many years in a disastrously mistaken view of the world.
For thousands of years sensible people believed that the world was flat.
The courageous, democracy-minded founders of the United States kept
human beings as slaves and believed they were animals, not people.
Our culture today has its own massively mistaken ideas of the world,
and these cause all the hunger, poverty, sickness, and war in the world.
If our people’s view of the world is causing pain to others and ourselves,
then we must look for a better one, one that works. If it doesn’t work,
we cannot simply continue to follow whatever we learned as children,
whether it came from parents or schools, churches or governments. True
yoga is the search for a worldview that actually works to bring people
happiness.
THE
ESSENTIAL
YOGA SUTRA
Ancient Wisdom for Your Yoga
Geshe Michael Roach
&
Christie McNally