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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

see how she uses everything, including within the heart that leads us to devour
catastrophe and destruction as evolutionary things, turning us into heartless machines
spurs to bring out new things buried in her crushing others.
own depths. It is as if she was staging a mega-
show, spectacular with lights and sounds The sign of this lack of love is of course a lack
on the cosmic stage, an endless epic of the of joy in the heart, a disease that humanity
soul putting on various forms as masks and much suffers from. The remedy is to awaken
disguises to make the play interesting and love, to enter into a deep state of oneness with
meaningful. For her it is evidently a delightful creation and with the Creatrix Consciousness,
thing to do but for the masked actors who the Conscious Intelligence that is operating
forget themselves in the play, forget that it everywhere and in everything. Yoga is a
is a role and not the entire truth, it can be means to do that. As its very name implies,
frightening. We experience sorrow and joy, yoga means a state of union. This union
pleasure and pain as the play unfolds and brings delight and peace which is the sign of
each plays his part. But if we can, even for being in yoga. Its opposite, a state of division,
a moment, step back, if we can enter into brings suffering and pain. The greater the
contemplation of the oneness that is always sense of loneliness, the more selfishly we
hidden behind each element of creation, if are turned upon ourselves. The more we cut
we can contemplate the boundlessness of ourselves off from the great universal current
Space and the endlessness of Time then we of life and try to utilise it for our own separate
too can share some touch of this delight that benefits, the more miserable we become. If
always accompanies the play. The animal we learn to step back from the immense and
being preyed upon and the animal preying complex workings of the million forces of
upon it becomes at a certain critical point, nature or step out of the dizzying eddy that
one reality, each losing its separateness in our mind and feelings are trapped in, then
the other. we shall experience the state of oneness and
the Silence that stands behind creation. In
That is why perhaps the first stir of joy is felt that Silence we can gather strength, in that
in eating or devouring things. It is as if it were Stillness we can rejuvenate and prepare
the first effort to recapture oneness, albeit an ourselves for a greater action, in that Peace
ignorant effort. This first instinct towards we can find the Conscious Intelligence,
oneness becomes something perverse when the Oneness of creation, the Wisdom that
it extends beyond its legitimate domain moves the worlds, the one Force that works
of material food onto psychological forces in everything, the evolutionary Energy, the
and energies. There are people who feed on ultimate Power that is the Source of all things.
emotions and devour feelings and thereby
crush the existence of others. Even with Science and yoga
food, when the impulse to devour becomes
uncontrollable then this too creates a problem Yogic practices are often various means to help
and has its revenge in an opposite manner. us reconnect with our Source. Science itself
Behind it is a need for love that is the ultimate is a kind of yoga trying to find the Source. It
way towards oneness. It is a lack of love is however a long winding path, a circuitous

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