attaching itself to sense objects. In addition, the effect of yoga should be to educate the mind, so that the latter can take the conditioned soul out of the ignorance in which it is held. In material existence everyone is a slave to the mind and the senses; in fact it is the mind which gives us a false conception of ourselves, which makes germinate in us the desire to dominate material nature and which is at the origin of the imprisonment of the soul in the material universe. If the mind is directed so as not to be fascinated by the shimmering matter, the soul will escape its conditioning. In no case should we indulge in the objects of the senses, because according to a process of degradation, they bog us more and more in material existence. The best way to free ourselves from this stagnation will be to never offer our thoughts only one object: God.
The mind is the cause of man's imprisonment in matter, but also of his liberation. Absorbed in the objects of the senses, it imprisons the being; detached from the objects of the senses, it frees it. Concentrating the mind on God therefore brings supreme liberation.
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It is written: “No one in this world can be an eternal companion to anyone. It is only by chance that we are assembled in families, societies, communities or nations. One day or another, since everyone has to leave their body, we must be separated from our loved ones. No one should therefore have too much affection for the members of his family”.
We believe that we belong to a family, to a society, to a nation, but each of us is alone with our destiny. Everyone is reborn in this world according to the actions accomplished in his past life as an individual. So each one must individually enjoy or suffer from his own karma. During our last existence, we had another body and then we lived in another country, another continent, another planet or even another galaxy and with each new life, we also have new parents and new brothers and sisters. We easily forget the elders.
No one, verily, can heap up goods against divine law and with them bring well-being to his family, society, or nation. Most of the great empires of yesteryear no longer exist today because their wealth was squandered by the descendants of their founders: another illustration of our principle. Whoever ignores this subtle law governing self-interested acts, and therefore rejects the moral principles that accompany it, will only take with him the harmful consequences of his sinful acts. His wealth and illicit possessions are taken from him, and he will fall into the darkest regions of hellish existence. No one should therefore accumulate more goods than Providence allocates to him, if he does not want to remain blind to his true interest.