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Raja-Yoga - Chapter-1 - Introductory -3. - Swami Vivekananda : Chicago 1893

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April 07, 2021. 05:45, .PM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTORY-3. -------------------------------------------------------------- What is the use of such knowledge?  In the first place, knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge, and secondly, there is also utility in it. It will take away all our misery. When by analysing his own mind, man comes face to face, as it were, with something which is never destroyed, something which is, by its own nature, eternally pure and perfect, he will no more be miserable, no more unhappy. All misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire. Man will find that he never dies, and then he will have no more fear of death. When he knows that he is perfect, he will have no more vain desires, and both these causes being a