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 and psychosynthesis
between them. This is true according to the Sankhya chart also. The purpose behind each Vịtti is to do or act or enact something and is the outcome of the unconscious. The unconscious always makes efforts to bocome conscious and these efforts are the Vșttis. This is a sort of a new dofinition of Vșttis but by inner observation and experience this fact can be very well verified. It is the process of evolution that is at the back of thtowing up Vịttis by the unconscious. So the urge is good so far as the purpose behind the Vșttis are concerned; so the arising of the Vșttis is in the nature of course and there is nothing sinister about them. As they are the tendencies or the effort of the unconscious to be conscious, they should be welcome rather than abhorred. It is like the creeper sending out its tendrils to grasp something to rise higher. Vịttis are blind and they stick to an object that is immediately available or to the object of desire.
Patañjali's description of two types of all these Vợttis is very significant and shows that they have a very important function to fulfill. The painful i. e. Klista Vịttis are Vșttis playing their part in the world and they are painfal at the end. Bat they are not painful when they are sublimated by meditation. Then alone they rest content because their very basic or essential parpose is served. By such purpose of concentration and sublimation Vịttis get refined, become subtle, less intense and they come into complete control and getting merged in the Superconscious finally they are no more. The other way of controlling them is to stay and take rest in the gap that arises in-between the two Vșttis. Patanjali states that though Vịttis arise in succession one after another, there is a very short Virāma or a gap of time in between aay two Vịttis and through this gap or lacuna can one peep through them and rest in the consciousness itself which is always there. This Virāma-pratyaya or the meditation on the superconscious by peeping through the Vștti increases by practice and with increase and intensity of this practice, the Vșttis slacken and thin down and ultimately merge in the Superconscious.
Haribhadra has emphasized on the Vrtti-samkşaya and thinning down of the Vșttis alor e can lead to the highest stage of Yoga. This is possible in two ways, as seen above : (1) By transformation and purification of the Vșttis through meditation and Samādhi and (2) by Virāma-pratyaya or the concentration of consciousness on the superconscious peeped through the gap in-between any two Vịttis. There is a third way also and that is the way of sublimation and manifestation of Vșttis through social sorvice and through creative work. This last method we shall tako up later on for discussion. Suffice it to state here for the common man and even for a Sadhaka this third method of creative social action is an easy and & natural way for the sublimation of his Vșttis. Thereby he can give vent