Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS.
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Another man, wherever he goes, pain follows him*
everything becomes painful. It is all the result of
their own past. According to the philosophy of the
Yogis all virtuous actions bring pleasure, and all vicious
actions bring pain. Any man who does wicked deeds
is sure to reap the fruit of them in the form of pain.
14. They bear fruit as pleasure or pain, caused by
virtue or vice.
15. To the discriminating, all is, as it were, painful
on account of everything bringing pain, either
in the consequence, or in apprehension, or in
attitude caused by impressions, also on account
of the counter action of qualities.
The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating
powers, the man of good sense, sees through all these
various things, which are called pleasure and pain, and
knows that they are always equally distributed, and
that one follows the other, and melts into the other;
he sees that men are following an ignis fatuus all their
lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.
There was never a love in this world which did not
know decay. The great king Yuditthira once said
that the most wonderful thing in life is that every
moment we see people dying around us, and yet we
think we shall never die. Surrounded by fools on every
side, we think we are the only exceptions, the only
learned men. Surrounded by all sorts of experiences
of fickleness, we think our love is the only lasting love.
How can that be ? Even love is selfish, and the Yogi
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