Raja-Yoga

ISO
RAJA YOGA.
virtues. Of course internal purity is of greater value
than external, but both are necessary, and external
purity, without internal, is of no good.
33. To obstruct thoughts which are inimical to
Yoga contrary thoughts will be brought.
That is the way to practise all these virtues that
have been stated, by holding thoughts of an opposite
character in the mind. When the idea of stealing
comes, non-stealing should be thought of. When the
idea of receiving gifts comes, replace it by a contrary
thought.
34. The obstructions to Yoga are killing, etc., whether
committed, caused, or approved ;
either through
avarice, or anger, or ignorance ; whether slight,
middling, or great, and result in innumerable
ignorances and miseries. This is (the method
of) thinking the contrary.
If I tell a lie, or cause another to tell a or lie, approve
of another doing so, it is equally sinful. If it is a very
mild lie,
still it is a lie. Every vicious thought will
rebound, every thought of hatred which you may have
thought, in a cave even, is stored up, and will one day
come back to you with tremendous power in the form
of some misery here. If you project all sorts of hatred
and jealousy, they will rebound on you with compound
interest. No power can avert them ;
when once you have
put them in motion you will have to bear them.
bering this, will prevent you from doing wicked things.