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
one but the final and constant Guru can be only the Supreme Truth because it is unfailing and available every moment. Patanjali also advocates to see Guru in God only because Omniscience rests in Him alone. Haribhadra though advises to have a Guru in the traditional way emphasises the need of self-assessment and self-ascertainment through introspection. According to him the best of yoga is the 'yoga of exertion' wherein man can go beyond even the scriptures and interprete them by inner light and can shed more light on them. So the best method in these times and the approach to Gurudom take a new form, and the Sadhaka should keep an open mind and seek and search truth, see truth, adopt it and build his life on truth alone. The secret for such practice of truth is the integration of all truth in life, deed and speech. The truths are never in conflict and they are always integrative and they speed up evolution. Such an integrative practice gives a clear vision of the milestones on the path of yoga. As mentioned before, we can see twelve main mile-stones on the yogapath and we now try to understand them in the light of integral yoga and the science of man.
The twelve chief steps on this path are (1) Karma or action (2) VṛttiSuddhi (3) Śraddha (4) Buddhi-Suddhi (5) Tapas (6) Sublimation (7) Bhavana (8) Rasa (9) Manasa-Suddhi (10) Ego-transformation (11) Conscience (12) Egoless-state. These are the age-old mile-stones already delineated on the yoga-path but they are to be reviewed and re-assessed in the light of integrative knowledge and the science of man. Each one of them assumes new significance when seen from the needs of the modern times. They are useful to the sadhaka and can be equally useful to the common man if he cares to tread the common path. This path is open to all but that is not enough. It must be so attractive or made attractive as it really is so that the common man would first care to look at it and then feel fulfilment of his real desires on this path. The greatest danger to humanity in the form of chaos or the future-shock is so impending that even the common man should prepare himself to meet it or avoid it by these yogic means of psychosynthesis. Otherwise too he has to look to this path even for what he wants in the world because the things of the world are mere appearance while the fruits of yoga are real and lasting. The very first step of knowledge of Karma itself can reveal this to him. Let us take these concepts one by one.
Karma
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The subject of Karma is very vast and very deep and deserves elaborate treatment in the form of a big thesis. Our purpose is to know the significance of Karma for yoga-sādhanā and for that it is necessary to