The individualized soul or consciousness (being) when exposed to this divine play through his individualized mind, when born sees this vast illusion called nature. The nature appears full of countless beings and it is magnificently diverse and full of temptations. One is attracted towards various objects and one interacts with these objects causing a reaction. The glittering objects created for the purpose of the mind to react makes an individual accrue merit or demerit called virtue and sin. One is lost in tides of cause and effect, action and re-action.      In a particular incarnation one keeps sorting out the liability of the previous births and simultaneously create more liability through various deeds and interactions.     The senses cannot perceive the true reality in the outer world despite being aware of it.   The true reality according to the sages is diametrically opposite to what we believe to be the truth that it is very difficult for a normal human being to swallow.

  The illusory effect of nature gives multiplicity, diversity, subject-object difference, sense of space and time and body sense.  It makes one think that one is a body constituting of flesh, bones, blood, phlegm, urine, pus etc. Think! Am I bones, blood, feet or body? Do I die when the body is declared dead? Where do I go and what happens to me after the body perishes in a cremation or buried in a graveyard or devoured by nature. Would that be my end?  All these questions are queried to themselves by beings of high intellect. Now this intelligent being gets really curious and seriously starts to question himself if I’m not the body who am I? Or what is the reality? He gets no answer. The fact is, if one thinks deeply, the most perplexing and intricate thing one finds is ignorance about ones own-self.   He further questions himself, why am I here, what will happen to me after I leave the mortal coil?  Who are these people who I am interacting with? They too will perish according to their destinies. Where will they go?  To most, a chill goes up the spine and one cannot find a real answer.   It is for the first time probably one wonders about himself, this mystical world and creation.

  The Supreme Lord who is Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient at the time of creation of this wonderful creative mystical energy called nature, had also revealed means of illumination of the enlightenment to the seekers of truth or God, so that they could attain the state of illumination in knowledge, nirvana or immortality. He himself has revealed this divine science on many occasions to many enlightened beings for the benefits of his own created beings so that the persons in ages to come could know the truth and could actually transcend the present states of consciousness and reach the state of Super-consciousness or the Knowledge of the Self. This system of knowing the Self or God or Atman is termed as yoga. Yoga means union of an Individualized Soul with Supreme Soul or knowing the Truth or the Absolute.