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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

the limitation and distortion of the senses and names, lived in many climes, practised different
the mind, have called it an infinite Existence- religions in different ages, gone through atheism
Consciousness-Bliss. and revolt as much as the life of a conformist,
followed different customs and cultures,
Limited existence spoken different languages and loved those
whom we may today consider our enemies
This is understandable since in a limited sense or hated those whom we fondly call our
all of us are that. We are a limited existence — friends in this life. We have lived the life of
at least that is how we experience ourselves the savage and the beast, hunted and been
— limited by our ego-sense that draws preyed upon, lived the life of an emperor
boundaries around the limitless expanse of and roamed this earth in rags. These things
the ocean taking each giant wave as the entire still exist in us as a lingering past, a shadow
sea. We are also a limited consciousness that that follows us through many lives. This past
is aware of few elements and unaware of that lives within us as states of consciousness
others, having power over a few aspects while and packets of information refusing to die is
helpless over others. We also experience a what is called in the parlance of yoga as the
limited bliss if we may use the word, in subconscious. It is at once individual and
our contacts with the world-forces. Being collective since our lives are interlinked with
limited by our ego-self and its preferences, everything else. Each Age of mankind lurks
it changes into a dual perception of pleasure in some layer of our concealed nature in its
and pain, suffering and joy. As long as we live essence and can at any time erupt seeking
trapped in this limitation suffering is bound resolution, redemption or revenge.
to accompany us. This is so because deep
within us a kinship dwells, a faint memory But if this were all and nothing more then
of our lost infinity. There is something within there would hardly be any hope for the race.
us, a portion of Truth or Light that knows that But the fact is that despite this backward
our real truth is not a limited formation of pull and its eruptions from time to time in
the moment, not a momentary ever-changing our individual and collective life, humanity
personality, not a temporary body built as a advances as a whole. This is so because
scaffolding for our dealings with the world there is also within us as a seed awaiting its
around, whose impacts it must share and hour, the script of the Future, the scroll of a
suffer. All these things change. Even our ego- higher Destiny. It is however difficult for us
self is more of an unconscious habit that sticks to reclaim all these memories and layers that
to us by the action of memory woven around lie submerged within us as riches under an
the outer experiences of a single life. ocean or snow-clad ranges. Just as our vision
can see only a small range of phenomena even
But there are within us other memories that of what meets the eye, just as our ears can
await their hour for discovery. Once awakened, hear only a limited range of frequencies even
we discover that we have taken many bodies if it is turned towards the source of sound,
and many births. We, not this momentary and so on with other senses as well, so too our
‘me’ but another ’I’, have died and been mind cannot perceive or even comprehend
born in a number of bodies, assumed many the total Reality that is always there before

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