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is gone." Lao Tzu said, "I had already said that no one could defeat me up till now because I have already accepted the defeat. I don't want to win. Come and sit on my chest and make it public by beating a drum that you have defeated me. The wrestler said, "It is useless to sit on such a man." The wrestler touched the feet of Lao Tzu and left for his home. He said fighting was useless.
Yoga says, it is futile to choose between the dualities.
Yoga says do not make a choice between what is always seen as two in life. They are one and the same. It is only a deception. Face value is one thing, at the back something else. Existence and nonexistence, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and bad, moral and immoral, monk and thief, religion and irreligion, are all the expansion of only one thing. Understand them but do not choose.
By understanding them, one transcends.
The second sutra of Yoga is: There is duality in energy -- existence and nonexistence. And where peaks of energy rise, the valleys of energy also get created. Where existence gets created, nonexistence is also present. Where there is creation, there is destruction also.
Hence this country did not think of the concept of creation alone, but thought of destruction as part of it. Creation accompanied by destruction, existence accompanied by nonexistence. All things that exist, move to nonexistence. And that which has become nonexistence, is moving back to exist.
Have you seen waves on the ocean? The wave that has risen up, is on its way down. And the ebb that is formed next to it, is on the way up. Each moment, everything is entering into its opposite. All things are entering into their opposites. One who has seen this, his wishes, desires and his longings all simply disappear. He does not renounce the desires, they simply disappear because desire is nothing but a choice.
Yoga's third sutra...
I told you that existence has two forms. Energy -- the first sutra. Second -- energy has two forms -- non-existence and existence. And the third sutra -- existence has two forms. One we call conscious, the other we call unconscious. But they are two forms,
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