Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 21$
many animal desires. If I take a god body, only the
good desires will come up, because for them the
environments are suitable. And if I take an animal
body, only the animal desires will come up, and the
good desires will wait. What does that show ? That
by means of environment we can check these desires.
Only that Karma which is suited to and fitted for the
environments will come out. This proves that the
power of environment is the great check to control
even Karma itself.
9. There is eonsecutiveness in desire, even though
separated by species, space and time, there be
ing identification of memory and impressions.
Experiences becoming fine become impressions;
impressions revivified become memory. The word
memory here includes unconscious co-ordination of
past experience, reduced to impressions, with present
conscious action. In each body the group of impres
sions acquired in a similar body only will become the
cause of action in that body. The experiences of dis
similar bodies will be held in abeyance. Each body
will act as if it were a descendant of a series of bodies
of that species only; thus, consecutiveness of desires
will not be broken.
10. Thirst for happiness being
without beginning,
eternal desires are
All experience is preceded by desire for becoming
happy. There was no beginning of experience, as