Raja-Yoga

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INTRODUCTION. 99
run, come back to you. If you love, that love will
come back to you, completing the circuit. It is as cer
tain as can be, that every bit of hatred that goes out
of the heart of man comes back to him in full force;
nothing can stop it,
and every impulse of love comes
back to him. On other and practical grounds we see
that the theory of eternal progression is untenable, for
destruction is the goal of everything earthly. All our
struggles and hopes and fears and joys, what will they
lead to? We will all end in death. Nothing
is so cer
tain as this. Where, then, is this motion in a straight
line? This infinite progression? It is only going out
to a distance, and again coming back to the centre from
which it started. See how, from nebulae, the sun,
moon, and stars, are produced; then they dissolve,
and go back to nebulae. The same is
being done every
where. The plant takes material from the earth, dis
solves, and gives it back. Every form in this world is
taken out of surrounding atoms and goes back to
these
atoms.
It cannot be that the same law acts differently in
different places. Law is uniform. Nothing
is more
certain than that. If this is the law of nature, so it is
with thought; it will dissolve and come back to its
origin ;
whether we will it or not we shall have to return
to the origin, which is called God or Absolute. We
all came from God, and we are all bound to go to God,
call that God by any name you like; call Him God, or
Absolute or Nature, or by any hundred names you like,
the fact remains the same. From whom all
this uni-