Iyengar: The pains which are yet to come can be and are to be avoided.
Taimni: The misery which is not yet come can and is to be avoided.
Carrera: Pain that is not yet come is avoidable.
Finally! A Sutra where the translations almost agree!
Iyengar syas that nothing can be done to alleviate past pain (it has already been experienced) but yoga can alleviate current pain and prevent future pain from occurring. He says that Patanjali is describing yoga as a “healing art, science, and philosophy, by which we build up robust health in body, and mind, and construct a defensive strength with which to deflect or counteract afflictions that are as yet unperceived afflictions.”
Taimni asks can we avoid the misery that seems part of being human? He points out that most religions accept this misery as a given and focus on blissful life after death. He says that yogic philosophy allows one to rise above “the illusions and miseries of life…here and now while we are still living in the physical body.” He says we either choose enlightenment now or in some future life, because we keep coming back until we achieve it.
Carrera says the “choices we make in life determine our experiences of happiness or suffering”.
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