The Yoga of Patanjali

154 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliRemember that the quantum of your output on theproductive lines decides the comforts you receive without anyeffort. The Yoga student is the only one who can understandthe difference in the application of the triangle, and he is theonly one who has the power to choose the second application,that culminates in work and not in comfort. If work were tobe your goal, comfort will be with you. If comfort were to beyour goal, destruction will be the result. This second applicationof triangle is called “the duty-culmination triangle”(Dharmottara). It is also called the triangle that leads you tolay the Law. The scriptures which we call the Ithihasa andPurana injunct that the ruler of any country should direct thepeople through his administrative abilities into the triangle thatleads to lay the Law. The Yogi is expected to know this andapply his samadhi and Samyama to this triangle while leading aYoga-life. He is the right person to understand things in a rightand impersonal perspective and he is injuncted to induce theindividual as well as the ruler into this triangle and to radiatethe presence of the Lord-consciousness through His vehiclesin terms of His work according to the Yoga-living. Socialism,communism, materialism, or spiritualism, anything is boundto fail and lead to destruction when conducted by persons wholive in their not-self. Unless one is a full- fledged Yogi, he cannotmake a success of any of these idealogies. Anyone of them isenough to bring solution to mankind when applied to the societyby an adept in Samadhi and Samyama.Suppose I start my career as a socialist when I am inpoverty. Gradually I gain importance and goodwill enough tofind myself a political leader. You can very easily imagine howI behave. I will contrive to occupy a palatial building and ownseveral motor cars and chartered planes and I argue that theyare necessary to serve the poor and distribute wealth amongthem by plundering the rich. Then people find me as a nuisance,