In Hindu traditions, the realization of who you really are is called basically sadhana.
 And sadhana means the discipline, the way of life that is necessary to follow in order
 to escape from the illusion that you are merely a skin-encapsulated ego.
 And sadhana comprises yoga, from the root yug, which means to join.
 And so from that, in Latin we get yungere, to join, and in English, junction, and also
 yoke.
 And junction is also the word union, you see.
 All this derives from the Sanskrit root yug.
 A yoke is also a discipline.
 When you yoke oxen, that is a kind of a discipline.
 Now strictly speaking, in the very strictest sense, yoga means the state of union, the
 state in which the individual self, what is called the jivatman, jivatman is approximately
 translatable as ego.
 Jivatman finds that it is ultimately atman, which equals Brahman, the supreme self.
 So yoga is the state, the strictest meaning of yoga is the state of union, and a yogi
 means one who has realized that union.
 But we find that the word is not normally used in that way, in that strict sense.
 Yoga in the normal way of use means the practice of meditation, whereby one comes into the
 state of union, and the yogi means one who is a traveler, a seeker, who is on the way
 to that point.
 But again, strictly speaking, there is no method to arrive at the place where you are,
 and no amount of searching will uncover the self, because all searching implies the absence
 of the self, the big self, the self with a capital S. So that to seek it is to thrust
 it away, and to practice a discipline to attain it is to postpone realizing.
 There is a famous Zen story told of a monk who was sitting in meditation, and the master
 came along and said, "What are you doing?"
 He said, "I'm meditating to become a Buddha."
 Whereupon the master picked up a brick that was lying nearby and started polishing it,
 rubbing it.
 And the monk said, "What are you doing?"
 He said, "I'm rubbing this brick to make it a mirror."
 He said, "By no amount of rubbing could you ever make a brick into a mirror."
 The master replied, "By no amount of Zazen could you become a Buddha."
 Zazen means sitting meditation.
 They react very badly to this story in modern-day Japan.
 Anyway, what is important, you see, quite radically here,
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