Raja-Yoga

162 RAjA YOGA.
says that, in the end, we shall find that even the love
of husbands and wives, and children and friends, slowly
decays. Decadence seizes everything in this life. It
is only when everything, even love, fails, that, with a
flash, man finds out how vain, how dream-like is this
world. Then he catches a glimpse of Vairdgyam
It is
(renunciation), catches a glimpse of the beyond.
only by giving up this world that the other comes;
never through holding on to this one. Never yet was
there a great soul who had not to reject sense pleas
ures and enjoyments to become such. The cause of
misery
is the clash between the different forces of
nature, one dragging one way, and another dragging
another, rendering permanent happiness impossible.
16. The misery which is not yet come is to be
avoided.
Some Karma we have worked
out already, some we
are working out now in the present, and some is waiting
to bear fruit in the future. That which we have
worked out already is past and gone.
That which we are experiencing now we will have to
work out, and it is
only that which is waiting to bear
fruit in the future that we can conquer and control, so
all our forces should be directed towards the control of
that Karma which has not yet borne fruit. That is
meant in the previous aphorism, when Patanjali says
that these various Samskdras are to be controlled by
counteracting waves.