Practicing. Yoga in the Age of Quarrel 129
Five thousand years ago, in the Bhagavad-gitd dialogue, Lord Krsna
recommended the yoga practice to His disciple Arjuna, but Arjuna flatly
expressed his inability to follow the stringent rules and regulations of
yoga. One should be practical in every field of activity. One should not
waste his valuable time simply in practicing some gymnastic feats in the
name of yoga. Real yoga is to search out the four-handed Supersoul
within one’s heart, and to see Him perpetually in meditation. Such con-
tinued meditation is called samadhi. If, however, one wants to meditate
upon something void or impersonal, it will require a very long time to
achieve anything by yoga practice. We cannot concentrate our mind on
something void or impersonal. Real yoga practice is to fix the mind on
the person of the four-handed Narayana who dwells in everyone’s heart.

Sometimes it is said that by meditation one will understand that God is
seated within one’s heart always, even when one does not know it. God is
seated within the heart of everyone. Not only is He seated in the heart of
the human being, but He is also within the hearts of the cats and dogs.
The Bhagavad-gita certifies this with the declaration that ISvara, the
supreme controller of the world, is seated in the heart of everyone. He is
present not only in everyone’s heart, but also within the atoms. No place
is vacant; no place is without the presence of the Lord.

The feature of the Lord by which He is present everywhere is called the
Paramatma. Atmd means the individual soul, and Paramatma means the
individual Supersoul. Both dtmd and Paramatma are individual persons. :
The difference between them, however, is that the dtmd, or soul, is pres-
ent only in one particular place, whereas the Paramatma is present
everywhere.

In this connection, the example of the sun is very nice. An individual
person may be situated in one place, but the sun, even though a specific
individual entity, is present over the head of every individual person. In
the Bhagavad-gitda this is very nicely explained. Therefore, even though
the qualities of all entities, including the Lord, are equal, the Supersoul is
different from the individual soul by quantity of expansion. The Lord, or
Supersoul, can expand Himself into millions of different forms, while the
individual soul cannot do so.

The Supersoul, being seated in everyone’s heart, can witness every-
one’s activities, past, present, and future. In the Upanisads the Supersoul
is said to be sitting with the individual soul as a friend and witness. As a
friend He is always anxious to get the individual soul back home, back to
Godhead. As a witness, He is the endower of all benedictions that result
from the individual’s actions. The Supersoul gives the individual soul all
