पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
reaching, the goal. This statement, though, apparently, very
nice, is also absurd, because there is no such thing as motion
in a straight line. Every motion is in a circle. If you could take
up a stone, and project it into space, and then live long
enough, that stone would come back exactly to your hand. A
straight line, infinitely projected, must end in a circle.
Therefore, this idea that the destiny of man is progression ever
forward and forward, and never stopping, is absurd. Although
extraneous to the subject, I may remark that this idea explains
the ethical theory that you must not hate, and must love,
because, just as in the case of electricity, or any other force,
the modern theory is that the power leaves the dynamo and
completes the circle back to the dynamo. So with all forces in
nature; they must come back to the source. Therefore do not
hate anybody, because that force, that hatred, which comes
out from you, must, in the long run, come back to you. If you
love, that love will come back to you, completing the circuit.
It is as certain as can be, that every bit of hatred that goes out
of the heart of man comes back to him full force; nothing can
stop it, and every impulse of love comes back to him. On
other and practical grounds we see that the theory of eternal
progression is untenable, for destruction is the goal of
everything earthly. All our struggles and hopes and fears and
joys, what will they lead to? We will all end in death. Nothing
is so certain as this. Where, then, is this motion in a straight
line? This infinite progression? It is only going out to a
distance, and again coming back to the centre from which it
started. See how, from nebulæ, the sun, moon, and stars, are
produced; then they dissolve, and go back to nebulæ. The
same is being done everywhere. The plant takes material from
the earth, dissolves, and gives it back. Every form in this
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