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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À model for yogic psychosynthesis today
the mind and senses attached to them. By such infatutaion man gets inbalance not only in his physical body but in his tanmatras and his mental body and aberrations start and disturbances result in upsetting the whole system both physical and mental.
As is the case with the physical body, so is the matter with the mental body. There are subtle attractions and attachments on this mental level; man has to keep in control not only his emotions but thoughts and images. The subtle attractions of the world in the for in of sex, power, money and the so called pleasures of the sensations and varieties of Bhoga lead him astray in no time and man agaio falls a prey to much more dire consequences in the form of neurosis, mental disturbances, ego-perversions and sexual perversities. The reactions of all these are nothing but misery, unhappiness, depression, diffidence, anxiety, worry and loss of consciousness. But this is not all. All this misbehaviour leads him to sin and transgression of laws and the more he goes on the wrong and unnatural path, the more perverse his ego becomes. He becomes a plaything in the hands of his own perverseness and aberrations though 'apparently he might be feeling that he is weilding power, amassing wealth and enjoying pleasures but his inside becomes a hollow. But the pity is that he does not know it. He becomes stabilized among all his power, riches and pleasures but no sooner a strong kick he receives from the forces of nature, he stumbles over and then he begins to feel the Vaccum inside and the hollowness of all power and riches and Bhogas. But then what is the remedy ? The remedy can be found on the royal road of Rājayoga i. e. the symthesis of yoga and psychosynthesis through yoga techniques. The first requirement of this is the knowledge of what man is in all his aspects. He is a speck physically in the vast universe and is almost nothing when compared to the globes revolving in the sky. But this human speck has consciousness and that makes him even greater than the material globés. Man has within him the five physical elements, the five organs of the work, the five senses, the five subtle elements or the Tapmatras, the mind, buddhi and along them all the consciousness or the Cetanā. It depends upon him how to handle them all and if he stops at every stage he is lost in the jungle of worldly pleasures as decribed above. But if he realizes that whatever he desires is not outside in the world but inside into his Cetanā, he gets a new insight and his work for yoga becomes clear. He can realize that his real self is in consciousness and in superconsciousness alone and once his search for the self begins by depending on the inner consciousness his task begins in the right direction. By turning back his gaze from outside to inside, he begins his safe travel on the royal road.