When you practise yoga, you improve the quality of your mind and emotions. With the improved quality of your mind and emotions, you begin to accept many inevitable events. Many people in this world are worried about everything because man is a perfectionist. He wants everything to be perfect. If he sees something absurd, he does not accept it, he does not understand it.
The philosophy of yoga is related to the process of evolution. We believe there will always be idiots in this world, existing side by side with wise people. Positive and negative forces will prevail, will exist side by side. When this is realized by you, nothing bad can disturb you. Existence is the mixture of the three gunas, and they will be there all the time. If you pass a law that all criminals must be killed now, within five years there will be another tribe of criminals.
You cannot eliminate the ever-surging process of Nature.
You cannot eliminate death, and if half the people of the world became immortal, there will be great problems. Once upon a time there was a problem of mortality. Now there is the problem of overpopulation. Therefore, death and other adverse circumstances should not cause imbalance in the mind.
The most important philosophy of yoga is: you perceive the world according to the quality of your vision. As you grow beyond the boundaries of the lower self, the actions and reactions taking place in the mind have different interpretations for you. We know about hatha yoga and raja yoga, but yoga is mainly concerned with the depth of consciousness of man. It helps one evolve and have a better realization of the world.
September 1982, San Sicario