By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of enlightenment and freedom. Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus lie in the hearts of all. They are not film stars,【C1】______idols of worship. They are great inspirational figures whose example is there to be followed. They act as our role models today. Just as they reached Self-Re-alization,【C2】______may we. Many of you may worry that you are【C3】______to meet the challenges that lie ahead. I want to【C4】______you that you can. I am a man who started from【C5】______; I was heavily disadvantaged in many ways. After much time and effort, I began to reach somewhere. I literally【C6】______from darkness to light, from mortal sickness to health, from crude【C7】______to immersion in the ocean of knowledge by one means alone, namely by enthusiastic【C8】______in the art and science of yoga practice. What held good for me will hold good for you too. Today you also have the benefit of many gifted yoga teachers. When I began yoga, there was, I am sorry to say, no wise, kind teacher to【C9】______me. In fact my own instructor refused to answer any of my innocent【C10】______on yoga. He did not【C11】______me as I do my students, offering them step-by-step guidance【C12】______a posture. He would simply demand a posture and【C13】______it to me or his other students to【C14】______how it could be realized. Perhaps that stimulated some stubborn【C15】______of my nature, which allied to unshakable faith in the subject of yoga made me burn to【C16】______. I am passionate, and maybe I needed to show the world that I was not【C17】______. But far more than that, I wanted to find out who I was. I wanted to understand this mysterious and【C18】______"yoga," which could reveal to us our innermost【C19】______, as equally as it revealed those of the universe【C20】______us and our place in it as joyful, suffering, puzzled human beings.