Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

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

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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
It is the senses that see and hear
And touch the things of the senses." So long as the experiencer is falsely identified object of experience, we cannot know the Atman, nature. We remain in bondage, believing ourselves slaves of experience.
“There is a story," writes Swami Vivekananda, king of the gods, Indra, once became a pig, wallowing he had a she-pig, and a lot of baby pigs, and was ver Then some gods saw his plight, and came to him, and “You are king of the gods, you have all the gods un command. Why are you here?' But Indra said, 'Neve am all right here; I do not care for heaven, while I ] sow and these little pigs. The poor gods were at th end. After a time, they decided to slay all the pigs, another. When all were dead, Indra began to weep an Then the gods ripped his pig-body open and he came and began to laugh when he realized what a hideous had had; he, the king of the gods, to have become a pi think that pig-life was the life? Not only so, but to hav the whole universe to come into the pig-life! The when it identifies itself with nature, forgets that it is infinite. The Atman does not love, it is love itself. It exist, it is existence itself. The Atman does not kr knowledge itself. It is a mistake to say that the Atm. exists or knows. Love, existence and knowledge are qualities of the Atman, but its essence. When they get upon something, you may call them the qualities of th thing. They are not the qualities but the essence of the the Infinite Being, without birth or death, establist own glory. It appears to have become so degenerate ti approach to tell it, 'You are not a pig,' it begins to są
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