"Once understood and incorporated into your awareness, the sutras can lead to new insights that open the gateway to higher states of consciousness."

If you do this on a daily basis, taking one sentence a day, or moving at whatever pace suits you, the knowledge in these pages will progressively unfold. Metabolized in this regular, incremental way, the knowledge will automatically lead to a shift in consciousness.

These exercises are the modern version of Gyana Yoga, which is the yoga of knowledge. A sutra is a statement that can cause a shift in consciousness. Sometimes it may appear to be full of contradictions, and perhaps seem irrational. Yet at the same time it can provide a better framework for understanding the nature of our physical world, and our true nature. 

If some of these statements seem contrary to common sense, this is because they are coming into conflict with your everyday experience of the world through your senses. This is the world you experience in the ordinary waking state of consciousness. But once understood and incorporated into your awareness, the sutras can lead to new insights that open the gateway to higher states of consciousness. Gyana Yoga, the yoga of knowledge, has often been considered the most difficult but also the most gratifying road to enlightenment. By walking the path laid out in the pages ahead, we can gain a glimpse of this higher state of reality. So let's begin.

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