पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
can only manifest themselves in proper environments. Only
those desires will come out for which the environment is
fitted; the rest will remain stored up. In this life we have many
godly desires, many human desires, many animal desires. If I
take a god body, only the god desires will come up, because
for them the environments are suitable. And if I take an
animal body, only the animal desires will come up, and the
god desires will wait. What does that show? That by means
of environment we can check these desires. Only that Karma
which is suited to and fitted for the environments will come
out. These proves that the power of environment is the great
check to control even Karma itself.
9. जातिदेशकालव्यवहितानाम् अप्यानन्तर्यं, स्मृतिसंस्कारयोः
एकरूपत्वात् ॥ ९॥
jatideshakalavyavahitanam apyanantaryam
smritisanskarayoh ekaroopatvat
There is connectiveness in desire, even though
separated by speices, space and time, there being
identifi-cation of memory and impressions.
Experiences becoming fine become impressions; impressions
revivified become memory. The word memory here includes
unconscious co-ordination of past experience, reduced to
impressions, with present conscious action. In each body the
group of impressions acquired in a similar body only will
become the cause of action in that body. The experiences of
dissimilar bodies will be held in abeyance. Each body will act
as if it were a descendant of a series of bodies of that species
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