The Secret of Being Happy : 20.

We have the bazaar way of thinking, the commercial way of thinking, the shopkeeper’s way of thinking. That has not left us, and yet we want Truth. That is not possible. As long as we cling to the old, idiotic way of thinking which measures things in quantitative terms and establishes commercial relationships with the objects, so long happiness is far from us. Yoga is not for us.

We have to be very honest and utterly dispassionate in our probe into Truth. When we ask for Truth, we must be sure that we are asking for Truth alone, and not something else. When we say we want to learn yoga, we must be sure we want yoga and nothing else because we may say we want yoga but really want something else in our heart of hearts.

It is an object of satisfaction that we are asking, though we say we want yoga. But satisfaction is not an object; it is a subjective universal realisation. The great art of yoga is a step taken towards the universality of things.
No one can conceive what universality is.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ...