Atmayogaasutra

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

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6. Every living and human being is constantly ever-in motion. This motion results in his effortivities, spirital or matteric. The effortivities of the “minded” animals are generally spontaneously matteric, with very little spirital effortivity in some kinds. Only the human-kind is capable of voluntarily pursuing the spirital or the matteric effortivity, as he designs.
7. When a human being rightly understands the fundamental ultimate reality through the Atmajnana, he beigns to abhor the association of the matter with his spirit; till then, he loves the association of the matter with his spirit. The latter pursues the effortivities of the Deluser (Badhaka) but the former develops himself into a Realiser (Sadhaka). These effortivities respectively cause the regress or the progress of the human being.
8. The Yoga respectively helps the both. The deluser yokes his Atman to his sense-organs, mind and intellect, the developed forms of the Anatman, and concentrates on planning, meditating and acting in increasing the matteric part of his life incessantly. He constantly draws the matoms from the universal diafield (dialectical field, dvakshetra) and, thus, succeeds in winning his Anatmasiddhi. He is the practiser of the Anatmayoga.
9. The realiser, on the contrary, yokes his sense-organs, mind and intellect to his Atman and concentrates on planning, meditating and acting in increasing the spirital part of his life incessantly. He constantly draws the spatoms from the universal diafield and, thus, succeeds in winning his Atmasiddhi. He is the practiser of the Atmayoga.
10. The increase of the spirital part of life proportionately decreases the matteric part and vice versa.
11. Every human being, at the beginning of his present lifespan, has the already earned and determined proportion of the effects of effortivities (Karmans), on the foundation of which he starts his present life-journey.
12. The nature of the Karmans of the Atman is matteric, and not spirital, otherwise it shall be impossible to annihilate the
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