The True Man
The three main causes of evil in this world are:
(1) Gratification of our animal passions and desires.
(2) The evil of the intermediate worlds (which the average person knows little about).
(3) Lack of devotion to Truth (the perfect attribute of God).
In Yoga teaching the causes of evil must be sought in the self-created universe where dwells the “I am.” Long has humanity sought to explain the why of evil by objective analysis. But the cause of a thing is not within the thing, and the cause of the underworld is to be found neither in the crime, nor in the underworld. Until man, the son of Manu, the Thinker, by contact with the Lord God of Truth within, has come to understand the cause of his affliction and sufferings, he can neither avoid, nor profit by them. The Dayspring of Youth, by M
The entire universe is condensed mind. Universal mind waves saturate the infinite space… Even the astral body itself is nothing but the crystallization of the mental matter and the physical world is also condensed mind. Therefore, the mind is matter and it is very gross, whether it exists in a physical state or in that state called astral or manasic…
(Sanskrit योग) “union.” Similar to the Latin “religare,” the root of the word “religion.” In Tibetan, it is “rnal-‘byor” which means “union with the fundamental nature of reality.”
“The word YOGA comes from the root Yuj which means to join, and in its spiritual sense, it is that process by which the human spirit is brought into near and conscious communion with, or is merged in, the Divine Spirit, according as the nature of the human spirit is held to be separate from (Dvaita, Visishtadvaita) or one with (Advaita) the Divine Spirit.” – Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga