Raja-Yoga

212 RAjA YOGA.
effects, caused by ignorance. Even when all competi
tion has ceased this perfect nature behind will make us
go forward until every one has become perfect.
Therefore there is no reason to believe that competi
tion is
necessary to progress. In the animal the man
was suppressed, but, as soon as the door was opened,
out rushed man. So, in man there is the potential
When
god, kept in by the locks and bars of ignorance.
knowledge breaks these bars the god becomes manifest.
4. From egoism alone proceed the created minds.
The theory of Karma is that we suffer for
or bad deeds, and the whole scope of
philosophy
our good
is to
approach the glory of man. All the Scriptures sing
the glory of man, of the soul, and then, with the same
breath, they preach this Karma. A good deed brings
such a result, and a bad deed such a result, but, if the
soul can be acted upon by a good or a bad deed it
amounts to nothing. Bad deeds put a bar to the mani
festation of our nature, of the Puruta, and good deeds
take the obstacles off, and its glory becomes manifest.
But the Purusa itself is never changed. Whatever you
do never destroys your own glory, your own nature,
because the soul cannot be acted upon by anything,
only a veil is spread before it,
hiding its perfection.
the activities of the different created
5. Though
minds are various, the one original mind is the
controller of them all.
These different minds, which will act in these differ
ent bodies, are called made-minds, and the bodies