Tulsi Prajna 1990 09

SR No.: 524563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mangal Prakash Mehta
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 80
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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NEW DIMENSIONS IN YOGA PHILOSOPHY
Dr. (Mrs.) Ratna Purohit*
The pursuit of truth must culminate in the realization of truth. And the pathway or the process leading to the discovery of truth must be made a public property so that anyone who would care to practise the same might discover and realize the truth.
How can one realize the truth unless exerts oneself for it? And why should one exert oneself for the truth unless one has implicit faith in it and the possibility of its realization? One must have either unflinching faith in the authority of one's preceptor, or else one must have a direct glimpse of the truth itself before one can proceed in the path of realization. Implicit faith in the truth, whether born with the help of the preceptor or fostered by a spontaneous intuition of the truth is the starting point of the path of spiritual realization.
There are various processes of leading oneself from this stage of implicit faith in the truth to the stage of final realization of truth. The process have a common term for them and that term is yoga.
The term yoga has a chequered history. The word 'yoga' occurs in the earliest sacred literature of the Hindus in the Rgveda with meaning of effecting a connection. Later on, the same word is used in the sense of yoking a horse. In still later literature, it is found with the meaning of controlling the senses, and the senses themselves are compared with uncontrolled spirited horses 'indriyāņi hayānyāhuḥ'.1
In Pāniņi's time the word yoga had attained its technical meaning, and he distinguished the root 'yuj Somādhau' (v yuj in the sense of connecting) Maxmuller, a great philosopher, is of the view that 'yujir yoge' (in the sense of connecting) is more appropriate meaning of the word yoga.
An objection may be raised that yoga is meant only for those who long for liberation. So this yoga has no utility in the empirical life and that too with reference to the common man. It is not so, whatever is needed for the survival of a man on this earth, can be gained by the •Assistant professor in the Dept. of Jainology, Jain Vishva Bharati, Ladnun.