पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
concentration? All old tendencies of restlessness, and
dullness, will be destroyed, as well as the tendencies of
goodness too. It is just the same as with the metals that are
used with gold to take off the dirt and alloy. When the ore is
smelted down, the dross is burnt along with the alloy. So this
constant controlling power will stop the previous bad
tendencies and, eventually, the good ones also. Those good
and evil tendencies will suppress each other, and there will
remain the Soul, in all its glorious splendour, untrammelled
by either good or bad, and that Soul is omnipresent,
omnipotent, and omniscient. By giving up all powers it has
become omnipotent, by giving up all life it is beyond
mortality; it has become life itself. Then the Soul will know It
neither had birth nor death, neither want of heaven nor of
earth. It will know that It neither came nor went; it was nature
which was moving, and that movement was reflected upon
the Soul. The form of the light is moving, it is reflected and
cast by the camera upon the wall, and the wall foolishly thinks
it is moving. So with all of us: it is the Chitta constantly
moving, manipulating itself into various forms, and we think
that we are these various forms. All these delusions will
vanish. When that free Soul will command—not pray or beg,
but command—then whatever It desires will be immediately
fulfilled; whatever It wants It will be able to do. According to
the Sankhya Philosophy there is no God. It says that there
cannot be any God of this universe, because if there were He
must be a Soul, and a Soul must be one of two things, either
bound or free. How can the soul that is bound by nature, or
controlled by nature, create? It is itself a slave. On the other
hand, what business has the soul that is free to create and
manipulate all these things? It has no desires, so cannot have
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