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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A model for yogic psychosynthesis today
he seys, "Mind is all, it is everything. All matter is but a manifestation of consciousness. Control thought and you control destiny." A philosopher may talk of such high thoughts and derive everything from consciousness, it may be argued. But here is the Nobel prize winner Prof. Plank, the great physicist who not only supports such statement but goes one step further. "I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness."7 The great scientist Albert Einstein had expressed a similar view and a series of such other statements can be alluded to. But suffice it to say here that consiousness is the final stuff of the world and the universe is its manifestation. The Vedanta has already given this message to the world from the times immemorial. The English writer Carlyle puts the same truth very succintly thus: "Matter exists only spiritually to present some idea and body it forth."8 Carlyle has spoken volumes in these few words. Lastly, let us look into similar statements of a great geologist and scientist. In his well known book, The phenomenon of Men, Pierre Teilhard very clearly and logically sums up this immanent and transcendent reality of consciousness: "After emergence comes emersion. In the perspectives of cosmic involution not only does consciousness become coextensive with the universe but the universe rests in the equilibrium and consistency in the form of a thought on a supreme pole of interiorisation...... In the case of a converging universe such as I have delineated far from being born of the fusion and confusion of the elemental centres, it assembles the universal centre of unification must be concieved as preexisting and transcendent."9
Consciousness then can be the basis of the Science of man and everything can be integrated into this Supreme Reality because everything is the outcome of the Supreme Consciousness. Science is the word common today but the ancient word for Science of man was philosophy or Darśana. As every science, today has a corresponding technology, every philosophic system in India bas its own system of Yoga to put the philosophic thoughts into practice. We have to attempt at such a philosophical thought which can be fully supported by modern Science or at least it would not go against the laws of Science.
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Such a philosophical thought must be integral and it must present a synthsis of all philosophical thought. It must also provide a synthesis of yoga too as its doctrines in practice. We have to make such an attempt here very humbly and in summary too. Such an integral Darśana must have the following characteristics (1). It must be fully integrated. To say in different words itmust be sythesis itself. (2) It must be pragmatic and not merely idealistic. (3) It must be faithful to life. (4) It must be useful