Swami Vivekananda

================================================================ Thursday, 21 Dec 2023 05:30. RAJA YOGA ================================================================ PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS CHAPTER IV INDEPENDENCE CONTINUED =============================================================== 11. Being held together by cause, effect, support, and objects, in the absence of these is its absence. Desires are held together by cause and effect; (The causes are the "pain-bearing obstructions" (II. 3) and actions (IV. 7), and the effects are "species, life, and experience of pleasure and pain" (II. 13). — Ed.) if a desire has been raised, it does not die without producing its effect. Then, again, the mind-stuff is the great storehouse, the support of all past desires reduced to Samskara form; until they have worked themselves out, they will not die. Moreover, so long as the senses receive the external objects, fresh desires will arise. If it be possible to get rid of