Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

Author(s): Prabhavnanda Swami, Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Ramkrishna Math Madras

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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
takes stock of himself and is compelled to review deeds, together with the consequences they must now produce in his next birth upon this earth or elsewhe clear, relentless light of the Atman, from which alienated, he sees what he has made of himself. Obvi the vast majority of us, this experience cannot be o bitterly humiliating and painful. At such a moment, s must feel shame, horror and remorse of an intens even imagined during our embodied lives.
If, therefore, we take the term “death experience" experience of this intermediate state between death a it is very easy to understand why a subconscious mer should fill us with instinctive dread-a dread eve: than that of the unknown. Only the illumined sair absolutely free from fear of death, because, for intermediate state is no longer in prospect. Alread earth he has “died” to the life of the senses. And, grows in spirituality, his death-fear will gradually This would seem to support Patanjali's proof of reinca
In any case-and whatever its origin—the desire to death and cling to life is certainly one of the greatest to enlightenment. To cling to life is to cling to nort consciousness, thereby shunning the superconsciousn which the Atman is known.
ते प्रतिप्रसवहेयाः सूक्ष्माः ॥१०॥ 10. When these obstacles have been reduced to :
form, they can be destroyed by resolving the into its primal cause.
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