Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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Chapter II. Atmayoga (Spiriaty)
1. The Atmayoga is the highest development of the Atmamarga (spiriway, spirital way), way of the self-effortivity of the Atman, to yoke the realiser's (sadhaka's) sense-organs (indriyas) into the mind, his mind into his intellect (buddbi) and his intellect into his Atman, for the final separation of his Anatman from his Atman.
2. The living beings (Jivas) are of two kinds, manifest and unmanifest. The unmanifest living beings, called latoms, live in cooperativity in the underlying life-field (Nyagrodha, Nigoya, Nigod) before starting their life-journey into the samsara (Flowity). They are made manifest by the law of Realibrium and, then they, start their life-journey.
3. The living beings are initially one-organed. As no living being is capable of winning his final attainment (siddhi) in one lifespan, he has, according to the laws of life, to take several births by means of the transformations of his Atman associated by his matomic subtle-body (sukshma-sharira). The one organed living being, hence, through several re-rebirths, successively develops into the two-organed, the three-organed and four-organed living being. The five-organed living being is originally without mind which he, through several re-rebirths, develops and he finally develops the intellect.
4. These developments are not biological as all the species of the living beings are beginningless. Their bodies change in confirmity with the environmental changes.
5. The human beings are the best and the final development of the living-beings, capable of consciously practising the Atmayoga.