Raja-Yoga

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RAjA YOGA.
you live in it. Only we have lost the knowledge of
how to make it. We have become automatic, de
generate. We have forgotten the process of manufac
ture. So, what we do automatically has again to be
regulated. We are the creators and we have to regu
late that creation, and as soon as we can do that we
shall be able to manufacture just as we like, and then
we shall have neither birth nor death, disease, or
anything.
13. The root being there, the fruition comes (in the
form of) species, life, and experience of plea
sure and pain.
The roots, the causes, the Samskdras being there,
they again manifest, and form the effects. The cause
dying down becomes the effect, and the effect becomes
more subtle, and becomes the cause of the next effect.
The tree bears a seed, and becomes the cause of the
next tree, and so on. All our works now, are the
effects of past Samskdras. Again, these Samskdras be
come the cause of future actions, and thus we go on.
So this aphorism says that the cause being there, the
fruit must come, in the form of species; one will be
a man, another an angel, another an animal, another a
demon. Then there are different effects in life; one
man lives fifty years, another a hundred, and another
dies in two years, and never attains maturity; all these
differences in life are regulated by these past actions.
One man is born, as it were, for pleasure; if he buries
himself in a forest pleasure will follow him there.