No Beggining - No End YS IV - 10

Yoga Sutra - IV- 10 -TASAM ANADITVAM CASISO NITYATVAT - Since the desire to live is eternal, impressions are also beginningless.

Swami Satchidananda translated this sutra without commentary.

From "How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood we are told:

In Hindu philosophy creation and dissolution is regarded as a beginningless and endless process. "Karma has always operated, always created tendencies. It is only as individuals that we can set ourselves free from karma by unlearning this desire to exist on the phenomenal level and realizing the Atman , our eternal nature."

Then the question is asked if every individual in the universe attains realization, would the universe end? "Being still within time , none of us can answer that question. In fact the question cannot properly be asked." We are told that the phenomenal universe is in constant transition, where the Atman is eternally now. "And through the human, time-bound mind can make this statement, it cannot possibly understand what it really means."

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