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
Bhavana is what creates true Rasa. It is the raw material of Rasa. It is Bhāvana which provides a clear picture of the goal of Rasa and it is by Carvana of different pure Bhavana that Rasa is created. It is Bhāvanā that provides the motive power to Rasa and Sublimation. It generates true will-power. The beauty of Bhavana is that it performs the primary and very important tasks of providing an image of the ideal as well as the motive-power to translate that image into actual life. Modern Psychology and especially Psychosynthesis emphasises the great role played by the image of the ideal as well as the will power. It asserts that when there is a conflict between the will-power and imagination, imagination wins. But in Bhavana these two faculties of man are so well synthesized that there can be no conflict among them but on the contrary they work in the same direction.
Japa and Mind. 2.
Bhavana is suggestive of repetition of Carvana and such repetition is of the Bhavas and Rasa is the outcome. The sadhaka has now to rise higher and concentrate on the meaning of the object of concentration, Such a change in the emphasis leads him to Japa. Japa is the repetition of the name or a Mantra and concentraiton on its meaning. It is in the mind that such a process can go on because it is chiefly the work of the mind. The meaning of meaning is what is important and for that mind has to rise to the level of higher consciousness. Meaning of meaning is nothing but consciousness and the Substance of all meaning too is consciousness. Mind has to rise higher and transcend itself to find the meaning of meaning. Mind has the capacity only to understand meaning of a word or an object. But when it concentrates on the meaning of the meaning it has to rise higher and search for it in the field of higher consciousness. Mind can do so much soaring in higher states of consciousness by the help of Japa alone. Thus Japa and mental effort for finding the meaning of meaning assumes a meaning in the context of our yogic psychosynthesis. It is not an ordinary process of repetition of a mantra but it assumes a new significance in the context of psychosynthesis.
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Japa becomes in this context of evolutionary integration an effort of the mind to transcend itself and identify itself with higher consciousness and ultimately with the supreme consciousneness. At first Japa works like an ironing of the mental structure so that all its contents become harmo. niously tuned and arranged in a new order and get ready to transform and contact the higher consciousness. It makes the ego ready and elastic enough to have a new polarization with supreme consciousness and supple enough to transform and transcend into the supreme pole. As soon as