The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 9 151body also proved burdensome. They produce disease, lethargyand disinclination.Now that you have crossed the fulcrum, they push youforth. Even when the body is not fit after a certain age, it pushesyou to come out of the body in a sweet pleasant way. It is partof healing. Death serves as a healer, since it has greeted youmany thousands of times upto now. People who have notundergone the Yogic-discipline do not know how to co-operatewith nature to come out of the body in the culmination. Theydo not know how to yield and they very much wish to live inthe same body which has reached the stage of fecal matter.Excretion is a call of nature that should not be resisted. NOWyou can know of it more if you lead the Chapter on “The Artof Dying” in the book “Esoteric Healing”. Nowhere in Englishliterature, you find till now such a scientific treatise about death.Many authors substituted stories of their imagination in tryingto present life after death. Esoteric Healing is a living book thatis better than the ‘Book of the Dead’.The last thing that should be supplemented is theknow­ledge of the “Socio-Economic triangle”. It is a veryessential part of wisdom and the ancient scriptures gave uslessons about it in all thoroughness. A knowledge of this triangleenables you to find your proper position in the society whenyou can live a spiritual life irrespective of the social and economicconditions around you. Without a knowledge of this it is notpossible to lead a spiritual life, catering your mundane needs.The three points of the triangle indicate : 1) Your work in thesociety 2) Your remuneration and 3) your comfort. They arecalled Dharma, Artha and Kama respectively. One way ofconstructing the triangle is to start with work and culminate inpersonal comforts. 1) You do your duties. 2) You receive yourremuneration and 3) You will purchase your comforts. The