YUDHISTHIRA'S INTEGRAL ANSWER

The questions raised by Yaksha, the disguised the father of Yudhisthira are intriguing and Yudhisthira's answers are deeply integrated.
Yaksha asked, " What is the most  laudable thing?
What is the most valuable of all his possessions? 
What is the best of all gains? 
And what is the best of all kinds of happiness?"
Yudhisthira answered; " the most laudable thing is skill,
the best of all possessions is knowledge,
the best of all gain is health
and contentment is the best of all kinds of happiness. "
Basically the questions cover  many facets to life.  For some one who is not mature and not having an integral approach to life would give contradictory answers , but Yudhisthira's answer was fully integrated and there was no contradiction in the answer
We need skill, but not at the cost of knowledge and health. One may have knowledge and health but what about contentment?
One cannot say a poor man is content. Either he is lying or he is lazy or he is a useless bum.
If none of the above  then he could be a highly evolved self realized yogi.  Now none of these category of people  are relevant to ordinary folks, the bums are a burden , liars are socially and morally corrupt, the lazy ones  are demotivating and the yogi is fascinating but cannot be emulated.  So Yudhisthira's answer is relevant  for the most of the people who are active in this world doing their duties and trying to harmonize skill, health, wisdom and happiness.  If they are successful they are yogis in their own  might .
Yoga is the science of integrating from ordinary to divine,  connecting  human to  God and  harmonizing the practical and the ideal.  
For the ordinary people these were apparently different questions but for some one like Yudhisthira who saw things in harmony it was easy to see harmony in the questions and what to speak of the answer.
Hence Yudhsthira's approach is the real and practical  approach to life as compared to the yogis who are lost in  their own bliss.