पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
both the powers, the experienced and its Lord.
According to this aphorism, when this Soul comes into
conjunction with nature, both the power of the Soul and the
power of nature become manifest in this conjunction, and all
these manifestations are thrown out. Ignorance is the cause of
this conjunction. We see every day that the cause of our pain
or pleasure is always our joining ourselves with the body. If I
were perfectly certain that I am not this body, I should take no
notice of heat and cold, or anything of the kind. This body is a
combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body,
you another, and the sun another. The whole universe is one
ocean of matter, and you are the name of a little particle, and I
of another, and the sun of another. We know that this matter is
continuously changing, what is forming the sun one day, the
next day may form the matter of our bodies.
24. तस्य हेतुरविद्या ॥ २४॥
tasya heturavidya
Ignorance is its cause.
Through ignorance we have joined ourselves with a particular
body, and thus opened ourselves to misery. This idea of body
is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us
happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that
makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure. It is our
business to rise above this superstition, and the Yogi shows us
how we can do this. It has been demonstrated that, under
certain mental conditions, a man may be burned, yet, while
that condition lasts, he will feel no pain. The difficulty is that
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