पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
take the upward bend again, and go back to the original
source, which is God. Man comes from God in the
beginning, in the middle he becomes man, and in the end he
goes back to God. This is the method of putting it in the
Dualistic form. In the Monistic form you say that man is God,
and goes back to Him again. If our present state is the higher
one, then why is there so much horror and misery, and why is
there an end to it? If this is the higher state, why does it end?
That which corrupts and degenerates cannot be the highest
state. Why should it be so diabolical, so unsatisfying? It is
only excusable, inasmuch as, through it, we are taking a
higher groove; we have to pass through it in order to become
regenerate again. Put a seed into the ground and it
disintegrates, dissolves after a time, and out of that dissolution
comes the splendid tree. Every seed must degenerate to
become the stately tree. So it follows that the sooner we get
out of this state we call “man” the better for us. Is it by
commtting suicide that we get out of this state? Not at all.
That will be making it all the worse. Torturing ourselves, or
condemning the world, is not the way to get out. We have to
pass through the “Slough of Despond,” and the sooner we are
through the better. But it must always be remembered that this
is not the highest state.
The really difficult part to understand is that this state, the
Absolute, which has been called the highest, is not, as some
fear, that of the zoophite, or of the stone. That would be a
dangerous thing to think. According to these thinkers there
are only two states of existence, one of the stone, and the other
of thought. What right have they to limit existence to these
two. Is there not something infinitely superior to thought? The
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