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Yogasthiti-Sushrutchay
We have already considered in detail that there is no happiness, but only sorrow, or perhaps only the appearance of happiness. The only true happiness is the absolute happiness of the self, which is the contemplation of a pure self-substance, because it is relatively powerless, but absolutely powerful. This is the definition of the Supreme Self.
“What is the use of hope? It is only knowledge that can improve things… Hope
wanders from door to door, like a dog, hoping for something… Hope
The servant of hope goes wherever it goes, and that person becomes a servant of the world… Hope.” —Shri Anandghanji
Or, the definition that anxiety is a sign of sorrow, and calmness is a sign of happiness, also fits with the previous definition and confirms it; because where there is more than one, where there is duality, there is anxiety; and where there is one pure, unmixed substance, where there is non-duality, there is calmness. Therefore, where there is dependence on the connection with the other, there is anxiety; and where there is anxiety, there is sorrow – this is the direct experience of everyone. And where there is independence, free from the connection with the other, there is calmness; and where there is calmness, there is happiness. This is also the direct experience of everyone. Thus, these two definitions are in harmony.
Anxiety is
Sorrow
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The self has received endless suffering of worldly wandering due to the other, which is separate from the self. Just as a prisoner bound by chains is taken wherever he is to be taken, so too, the self, bound by the chains of the other, is dragged wherever it pleases, and is made to suffer endless sorrow of birth, old age, and death. Thus, the proverb “The other destroys” – “विटः ते विनाशं” – is true. The self has transgressed, trespassed, by violating its own time, that is, the limits of the form of the self-substance, and entering into the time of the other – the realm of the other’s matter – the other’s limits. From time immemorial, the self has interfered in the realm of the other’s matter, become attached to the other, and formed a bond of affection (!) with it. Therefore, the other’s matter, in return, has clung to the self like a hideous ghost, and has given the self a pledge to keep it within its own realm in return for the crime of invasion! Or, in return for the bond of affection, it has bound it with thick darkness and kept it in the prison of the world! Thus, dependence has led to this great suffering!
But when the self atones for the transgression of invading the other’s realm, and returns to its own…