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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INTRODUCTION
I thank the trustees and the director of the L. D. Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidyamandir to give me an opportunity to have a dip into the great ocean of Yoga. It was a treat to study Har.bhadra and his Yoga works. The study
has proved to be so engrossing that it provided an opportunity ty to
into the psychic sky and into the heaven of consciousness. Yoga is an ever-new subject and it has the potent capacity to evolve because it is integral by nature. It can be said without exaggeration that yoga can provide the needs of the times. The presentday world needs unification of all knowledge because it is too much ridden with the abounding informations of a variety of specializations. Humanity today needs integrated human character. Both these needs can well be provided by yoga and its techniques.
I have tried to divide the subject into three aspects (1) Haribhadra, Jainism and Yoga (2) Haribhadracārya's Sythesis of Yoga and (3) A model for Yogic psychosynthesis today. These are the subjects of three lectures on the general topic of "Haribhadracārya's yoga works and Psychosynthesis." In the first lecture, I have tried to delineate how Haribhadra approached the subject of Yoga, how he tried to synthesise the various systems of Yoga by tracing their origins, and how and by what methods he achieved a grand synthesis of Yoga along with a short review of his first two Yoga works. In the second lecture, I took up his two main works, viz. Yogabindu and Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya and tried to deal with the various topics and Yoga-concepts showing how they lead to psychosynthesis pointing out Haribhadra's art of synthesis. In the third lecture, I have ventured to present a model of psychosynthesis based on Yoga and tried to synthesise the ancient concepts of psychology and psychosynthesis without going into the technicalities as far as possible but certain useful references to modern psychological concepts has to be given. I have used conventional yoga-terms and kept them as they are, explaining and interpreting their meanings wherever necessary. In this way, I have tried to view and review the whole arena of Yoga, keeping Haribhadra's Yoga-works in the centre Yoga is such a vast subject that each important topic would need a volume for its exposition. The experiential methods of Yoga require to be more phasized because that alone can open up its great treasures. References are given at the end of each lecture.
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Lastly, I thank again the then director, Shri Dalsukhbhai Malvania for giving me such an opportunity of Yogic exposition.