Haribhadras Yoga Works and Psychosynthesis

SR No.: 001262
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S A Desai
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 106
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Yoga
File Size: 7 MB

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manifestation is Ṛta and Mukta life is now a Co-centric circle of the Supreme. "Such a state can never be attainable by physical methods however profound they may be."13 It is by Yoga or psychosynthesis alone that such supreme state can be attained because it is the psyche alone that can reach such a state. There lies the importance of yogic psychsynthesis. It is a matter of great satisfaction that the West has begun to turn the greatest of all sciences and even the greatest of Art, in recent times. Roberto Assagioli M. D. of Italy has started the movement in Rome in 1926 and has established the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation at New York and is the Chairman of this Institution. The movemet has gained momentum in recent times. As Prof. B. L. Atreya states there is much common between our Yoga and Psychosynthesis: "A close study of psychosynthesis and Vedanta and Yoga will reveal that they have much in common and are likely to benefit from each other."14
Dr. Assagioli has published a book named "Psychosynthesis" and is perhaps the first book on the subject.15 It is a matter of great satisfaction that present-day psychosynthesis accepts the existence of Consciousness and basis its concepts on it. It emphasises sublimation, concentra❤ tion and synthesis of the psyche. It emphasises imagination more because imagination is more powerful than even the will. In a way this is right though it can be said that will and imagination are very much interlinked Yoga can learn something from modern Psychosynthesis in the field of its application to social and therapeutic questions. Psychosynthesis can look upto Yoga for its subtle psychic methods. Psychosynthesis can make fast progress if it bases itself on some existential and experiential pragmatic Philosopoy of Yoga. Yoga could achieve and bring forth a Supreme Science of psychosynthesis because it is based on a sound and a pragmatic. philosophy. Man shall never be able to get rid of Philosophy because it is the Science of Sciences and Art of Arts. Yoga is the synthesis of a pragmatic philosophy, a science of psychosynthesis and an art of life. Haribhadra's synthesis of yoga stands as a model even today and treading his footsteps, an humble model of psychosynthesis has been presented here.
Haribhadra's synthesis of Yoga has rendered a unique service to the Yoga. The Ganga of Yogic knowledge came down from heaven and the Ganga fell on the head of Sankara the Mahayogi and from there she came down to the planes. The ancient Risis brought her down to earth and the plains but she was lost in the jungles in manifold streams. Yoga Ganga too was almost lost in the jungles of sects, secterianism and narrow scholasticism. It was Haribhadra who brought forth all the streams of Yoga-Ganga together and made them to flow, in one stream of synthesis