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
evolution and gives a complete picture of both involution as well as evolution. That is why it presents not merely a picture of the material world but also the psychic and spiritual world. In short it posits a thesis and a picture of complete cycle of all life and matter or mind or conscious. ness. That is why the terms for its concepts used are very significant and they represent the experiential observations of life as well as matter. Modern. Science too has to look to such presentation as most preeminent scientists like Plank, Eddington and Einstein have been of the opinion that matter contains some spiritual stuff.
The very thesis can be proved by our methodology of experiential and existential data and it posits that the universe is nothing but consciousness at the core and there are variations only in its manifesation and forms, Consciousness is stable and unchanged and manifests the universe by the three guņas on the two hinges of indestructibility and unity of caergy in a cycle of Rta by devi Jution-evolution. So from the point of view of consciousness there are only different forms of consciousness in the universe, At the top the Supreme Consciousness and at the base inconscient matter - energy, and that is nothing but consciousness negated. This 'sleeping consciousness so to say (Supra-cetanā) is pregnant with consciousness and that alone makes the evolution possible. We shall call this strata of inconscient and pregnant consciousness subliminal consciousness. This subliminal consciousness gives birth to life and lifeforms in vegetation, birds and animals and then human beings. This is done by formulation of a nucleus of a subtle matter around consciousness and so ipnumerable jivas come into existence. Each Jiva evolves and gathers experiences and in the course of such evolutions it forms a subconscious of its own. The subconscious in each man is nothing but improssions gathered all along the course of his evolution upto the human stage. It is called Vāsanā in Indian Psychology, There is nothing to be feared from such subconscious because it is the part and parcel of one's being and it represents one's part in the form of an accumulation of impressions through many lives. Moreover it is not like a sheet of paper or tape which merely takes new impressions and merely gathers them. The subconscious has at its background of the subliminal Supta Cetană and it inspires the Subconscious to come to the surface of the consciousness. Freud and some of his followers have created a sort of fear that the subconscious is a heap of rubbish and it is completely uncontrollable. From the point of view of our thesis, subconscious only creates channels of expressions of the inner drives from the subliminal. When a trained and concen. frated mind gives suggestions to the unconscious mind it responds wonderfully
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