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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II · 16 of 55 · tr. Charles Johnston

Sutra 16

This pain is to be warded off, before it has come. In other words, we cannot cure the pains of life by laying on them any balm. We must cut the root, absorption in the psychical self. So it is said, there is no cure for the misery of longing, but to fix the heart upon the eternal.
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