पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
did not know the reason, man found that that place where
people worshipped God became full of good Tanmatras.
Every day people go there, and the more they go the holier
they get, and the holier that place becomes. If any man who
has not much Sattva in him goes there the place will influence
him, and arouse his Sattva quality. Here, therefore, is the
significance of all temples and holy places, but you must
remember that their holiness depends on holy people
congregating there. The difficulty with mankind is that they
forget the original meaning, and put the cart before the horse.
It was men who made these places holy, and then the effect
became the cause and made men holy. If the wicked only
were to go there it would become as bad as any other place. It
is not the building, but the people, that make a church, and
that is what we always forget. That is why sages and holy
persons, who have so much of this Sattva quality, are
emanating so much of it around them, and exerting a
tremendous influence day and night on their surroundings. A
man may become so pure that his purity will become tangible,
as it were. The body has become pure, and in an intensely
physical sense, no figurative idea, no poetical language, it
emanates that purity wherever it goes. Whosoever comes in
contact with that man becomes pure. Next “the indicated
only” means the Buddhi, the intellect. “The indicated only” is
the first manifestation of nature; from it all other
manifestations proceed. The last is “the signless.” Here there
seems to be a great fight between modern science and all
religion. Every religion has this idea that this universe comes
out of intelligence. Only some religions were more
philosophical, and used scientific language. The very theory
of God, taking it in its psychological significance, and apart
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