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
is generally thought throughout the ages that yoga sadhana is dry and joyless. But this is not the case. On the contrary the joy in Yoga-Sadhana is so great and sublime that there cannot be any comparison with it, and worldly joy stands staggered at its sight. Though Yoga and Rasa are concepts which are not breaketed together they are the two true and indivisible concommitants, As Upanisads declare bravely that who would breathe if there is no joy in life? Joy real joy or Rasa is the very sou! of life. But this Rasa is not Bhoga-rasa as Hribhadra describes the worldy pleasures. It is the joy of consciousness and its creative action. Consciousness is Truth, Knowledge and Anand. Rasa describes the same Supreme Ananda in action. Reverting to the process of integrative evolution, we can see that it is the purpose of joy that moves men to action. If this joy is integrative it boosts up evolution. If it is Bhoga-Rasa it is disintegrative, and deserves to be abandoned. This is the test of true Rasa.
Rasa in evolutionary integration takes an upward trend. Rasa flows like water or any other liquid and its general trend is always downward or is at the most horizontal. Bhoga Rasa is of this type. It flows towards base object of joy. But true Rasa or Rasa that helps evolutionary integration is like the Rasa that flows upward. It is a great wonder show being played daily before our very eyes but the pity is that most of us do not see the beauty behind this grand show in nature. Though Rasa flows downward always in material nature, but a small plant or a tree exhibits a magic show as it were and makes the Rasa flow upward in its trunk by no means of mechanical power but merely by its roots! A small, tree or a plant or a blade of grass has kept open the grand show of th transformation and sublimation of Rasa, for all time. It needs no drive-in facility to see this wonder-work of a plant or grass-roots but it only requires an insight into this sublimation of Rasa. The grass can be a Guru to a Sadhaka as Dattatreya made twenty five Gurus in the dog, horse and others. This grand open show depicts that true Rasa flowed upwards. It teaches man that his true Rasa must flow upward and his life bears spiritual fruits only by sublimated Rasa. This makes the place of Rasa inevitable in Sadhana. Sadhana can be sustained only by Rasa in consciousness.
Tapas and sublimation can be turned into the process of joy by such spiritual Rasa, Tapas is no more a dry act but an act of joy. Mother takes pain to rear her child and her Tapss is considered unrivalled in all parts of the world, but to her it is no Tapas but an act of creation and a joy. So must be the case with the Sadhaka. The Tapas must be with sublimation and in it must flow Rasa upward so that the process of evo lution becomes natural, joyous and evenly speedy.