From: ‘Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras’
When an event or object in the external world is recorded by the
senses, a thought-wave is raised in the mind. The ego-sense
identifies itself with this wave…This false identification is the cause of all
our misery (because we cling to pleasant, yet transient,
thought-waves, and shrink from unpleasant, yet unavoidable,
thought-waves)…The real Self, the Atman, remains forever outside
the power of thought-waves, it is eternally pure, enlightened and
free — the only true, unchanging happiness…
