Yoga of Patanjali Legend
Chapter. 3
Indian, would not touch it were not the enjoyment factor there. If the thought were that there is to be enjoyment only at the end of the path of yoga, and not on the way, the candidate would expect to have a hard time before him. Undertaking the uncongenial, he would miss its value, and fall again and again. But if each part of it as he goes along becomes a pleasure, there will be progress indeed. Happiness and progress go hand in hand, with happiness leading. Pain has its use as an indicator of missing the way, and gives direction back into the path of happiness. The aspirant suddenly, or dawningly, as the case may be, becomes alerted to that which he has seen but has not valued before, and this awakening, when it comes, will be natural, just as when the time arrives, in adolescence, it is natural for the young man or woman to find a new value in the company of the childhood playmate. This awakening is also placed at the beginning of the yogic way by the philosophers of India when they speak of uiueka, usually translated as discrimination, or discernment, as the very first step on the yogic path. It is often called the discovery of the inner man, because every one who makes the discovery identifies himself with the inner rather than with the outer. All people naturally identify themselves with the thinker rather than with the object of thought. It would be strange, would it not, if somebody seeing a camel thought he was a camel being seen by something
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