Consciousness is a double-edged sword !

I feel consciousness is a double-edged sword, as we progress we are enabled to make better choices but being more aware can sometimes make us experience more pain or in other words maybe someone rightly said "sometimes not knowing the truth is happiness".

While practicing yoga, or maybe its a thing of age that I have experienced self progress towards consciousness and awareness about what makes me feel good or what makes me feel numb and then there were days when I was pondering why there is a proverb that "IGNORANCE IS BLISS" which is a completely opposite road of consciousness and the practice of yoga either physical, mental or karma raise us in consciousness. 

Then I was subjected to a thoughtful dilemma since both the philosophies and practice of either yoga or ignorance are equally authentic but surprisingly contrasting.

And while reflecting back and looking forward in solitude I understood "Conscious Ignorance" which implies although they are yin-yang but they can co-exist. Since in order to find escape from bitter pills of truth which raises our consciousness, we shouldn't ignore everything but we can consciously ignore while attaining wisdom and bliss.

-Manal Aquil