Atmayogaasutra

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

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Chapter VI. Atma-Samgharsha
(Self-Struggle)
1. The Atma-samgharsha (self-struggle) is of two kinds, natural and self-effortive.
2. When a living being suffers and tolerates any misery, and affliction wrought by any external agency, beyond his control, it is natural self-struggle. It is also a means of annihilating the accumulated Karmans, signifying matomic subtle body attached to the spirit.
3. When a living and human being, wilfully and consciously, engages his Atman against his Anatman and remains constantly effortive till its final annihilation ; it is self-struggle.
4. The eightfold-way, the realisery regulations, the Atmajnana, the spirital effortivities and the Atmadhyapa are the means of the self-struggle. They all constitute the Atmamarga (spiriway).
5. The Atmadhyana is the best and the surest means of accelerating the processes of the Atmasamgharsha.
6. The Atmasamgharsha is a continuing process beginning with the one-organed life-span of the living being. It reaches its highest stage in the life of an Atmayogin.
7. The true final journey of the Atmayogin, on the way to Atmasiddhi, now, rightly begins. The self-struggle now becomes very acute and extremely intense.
8. The first concern of the Atmayogin is to, consciously and vigilantly, totally check the inflow of the matoms through numerous windows in the body. He now, totally refrains from all Anatmik deeds.