Manduka Upanishad:~ Yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality
If the Yogis have the real occult power they should use it to serve humanity by eradicating unemployment, to feed the hunger, cure the diseases without the medicine save from death, stop the violence, wars, and terrorism, which is going on in the name of God and religion.
Yogis merely say, "It is Karma, we can’t do anything. Yogis and Gurus use this as a trick. They benefit by coincidences and explain failures by Karma.
They have no such magical powers. The seeker must think and verify the facts. The scientists think only of the world, they never investigate their own existence, which is needed to unfold the mystery of the universe.
Practicing yogic Samadhi and Kriya Yoga up to the limit and extent to get one-pointed and concentrativeness, and to be able to think of particular subjects, it is good; beyond that, if they begin to weaken their thinking process and accept what they imagine as real, they begin to get hallucinated.
Ashtavakra says ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 which deals with meditation, verse 11 and 12. It says "Yoga is for purification." This means it is not for truth but discipline.
Sage Sankara: ~ VC Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge about our own Self. The firm realization of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)
Panchadasi, P.509 v,109, shows the impossibility of yoga arriving at a successful end to its practices.
The notions of ‘Self-realization through yoga is not philosophic. Every yogi who shuts himself in a cave is not thereby freed from thinking.
Yoga can lead only to temporary peace because the world is subject to change.
Only Advaitic wisdom or Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana can yield Advaitic awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya (universe).
Bhagavan Buddha gave up yoga after practicing it for six years. He saw it could not yield truth.
Bhagavan Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. Thus, Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. (Page.70/71 "Buddhism In Translation” by Warren)
Unless one exercise his Buddhi--reason--there is no chance of getting the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
