The word “Yoga” means union. What does union mean? In reality, you are not an individual – you are floating like a soap bubble in a mass of life. You only experience yourself as an individual due to the psychological construct within you. For this individual to find fulfillment, you have to become universal.
How do you become universal? There are fantastic parables about that in our culture. In one story, Krishna is playing outside, and Yashodha thinks he may be eating mud. She asks him to open his mouth, and when she looks inside, she sees the whole cosmos within his mouth.
In reality, you are not an individual – you are floating like a soap bubble in a mass of life.
This parable illustrates Krishna’s state of absolute inclusion, which found a different expression in the Vishwarupa Darshana [1] during the Kurukshetra war. These stories show that he lives not as an individual but as a universal entity, and it is possible for every human being to become that.
Becoming that, or in other words, enlightenment, is not an attainment but a realization, because it is already there – you simply have to realize reality. Realization is the key; it is not an accomplishment; it is not like climbing a mountaintop.
[1] A divine revelation where Krishna shows his cosmic form to Arjuna, displaying all of existence within himself.