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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Haribhadra árid Psychosynthesis
not merely to the sadhakas but to the common man. (5) It must be simpl as well as profound. (6) It must be compreheasive enough to cover life as a whole and all its manifestations. (7). It must be conducive of man's ibtelligent growth and inspiring enough to his complete self-realization and self-expression.
When there is a building up of the science of life or ititegral philosophy sortie basic assumptions are felt necessary. Such assumptions are creative as well as pervasive as they are necessary. 'Richad Gregs very specifically states on this topic that "An assumption like a hypothesis itt science is creative. When recognized it integrates facts and forces whose relationship had not been previously recognized..... Absolute assumptions are: transcendent. .... They are pervasive"10 Every scientist bas to assudje some hypothesis on which he builds up his science. He has to adopt some axioms or some apparent truths and adopt some methods suitable to his science, and build up an edifice of science. In philosophy too sach assumptions are required, and every philosophy accepts some axioms and the body of the philosophy is built on these basic truths. In* the integral philosophy and its corresponding system of technique or yoga some hypothesis is required too. Such a hypothesis can be sapremte consciousness or God. Great thinkers consider that such a hypothesis of the concept of God or Supreme Consciousness in akes the work of such integral philosophy and yoga easy and simple. This concept is suppor: ted by Alexis Carrel and others. “The hypothesis of God", wrote Arthur H. Compton, "gives a more reasonable interpretation of the universe than any other hypothsis. It is quite as legitimate as many of the hypothesis of physics and its fertility has already been immense. There is no reason for rejecting it. Millikan, Eddington and Jeans believe like Newtor
the cosmos is the product of Creative Intelligence. We have thús quoted sufficent authorities for the working out of an integrated philosophy and its technique of Yoga. I have by God's grace been able to write a book on this subject in Gujarati and is named Samänvaya Dansana, wbich is a prize winner and is published by N. M. Tripathi & Sons, Bombay with two introductions by Sant Vinoba Bhave and Jain Saint Santbalji. I desire to give here the substance of this book as it is pertinent to our purpose so that we can provide an integrated philosophical back ground for an integrated yoga and its techniques which would provide a model for psychosynthesis today.
Psychosynthesis in Yoga
Every Darśana or philosophy or science has its technique and the science of man has its own technique and that is yoga in India. Haribhadra