# We Must Become as Gardeners **1) In perhaps the most important line of the Yoga Sutra, Master Patanjali says that “we must become as gardeners.” What does this mean, and what would be the opposite of a gardener?** Once we have “destroyed the veil” by realizing that things are coming from our side, then we are equipped to go about creating our own future, our own paradise. We take control of our lives, and purposely plant the seeds we need to see a perfect world, a world without pain. We realize that the things which appear to be causing other things in truth lack any connection: gas doesn’t run a car, for example. We learn that the only way to make a car run is to assure that others get where they want to go. We are willing to take the time, we have the patience, to purposely plant seeds and wait for the desired results to appear. The opposite would be what we call “roboclaws.” This is a crude attempt to manipulate our reality in order to get what we want in the immediate present. If we were desperate to get someplace, for example, we might steal a car. But in fact the act of stealing someone else’s means of getting somewhere could never cause us to get somewhere. If it seems to work, it’s only because we have helped someone get somewhere in the past, and not because of the theft. **