Raja-Yoga

214 RjA YOGA.
7. Works are neither black nor white for the Yogis i
for others they are threefold, black, white, and
mixed.
When the Yogi has attained to that state of perfec
tion, the actions of that man, and the Karma produced
by those actions, will not bind him, because he did not
desire them. He just works on; he works to do good,
and he does good, but does not care for the result, and
it will not come to him. But for ordinary men, who
have not attained to that highest state, works are of
three kinds, black (evil actions), white (good actions),
and mixed.
8. From these threefold works are manifested in each
tate only those desires (which are) fitting
that state alone.
ance for the time being.)
(The others are held in abey
Suppose I have made the three kinds of Karma,
good, bad and mixed, and suppose I die and become a
god in heaven the desires in a ; god body are not the
same as the desires in a human body. The god body
neither eats nor drinks; what becomes of my past
unworked Karmas, which produce as their effect the
desire to eat and drink ? Where would these Karmas
go when I became a god ? The answer is that desires
can only manifest themselves in proper environments.
to
Only those desires will come out for which the environ
ment is fitted ;
the rest will remain stored up. In this
life we have many godly desires, many human desires.