Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II · 14 of 55 · tr. Charles Johnston
Sutra 14
These bear fruits of rejoicing, or of affliction, as they are sprung from holy or unholy works. Since holiness is obedience to divine law, to the law of divine harmony, and obedience to harmony strengthens that harmony in the soul, which is the one true joy, therefore joy comes of holiness: comes, indeed, in no other way. And as unholiness is disobedience, and therefore discord, therefore unholiness makes for pain; and this two-fold law is true, whether the cause take effect in this, or in a yet unmanifested birth.
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Dharmacosmology
The cosmic law that manifests as each being's own duty — right order known not as abstract truth but as the specific obligation of one's nature and station (svadharma), so that maintaining the cosmos and performing one's proper work are one act; the Gita's 'one's own duty, though defective, is better than another's well performed.' Sits beside asha_cosmic_order and maat_cosmic_order as a right-order concept but is distinct in individuating the order into personal vocation; distinct from good_thought_word_deed (ethical triad) in binding duty to cosmic station.
The passage explicitly defines holiness as obedience to divine law and harmony, aligning directly with the concept of dharma as cosmic duty and order.
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The transmigration of the soul across lives.
The passage explicitly mentions that unholiness makes for pain whether the cause takes effect in this life or in an 'unmanifested birth' across lives.
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