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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

The ascent of thought to things in their progressive unfolding.

The yogin, piercing beyond the thinker’s fence, Beyond this, thought enters into Silence, its
enters into other modes of thought that deal secret birthplace. Here, in this Silence it beholds
with a different order of experiences that are all things in a comprehensive and total cosmic
right now not easily accessible to man. The vision and expresses what it beholds through
reason for this inaccessibility is often cited words and language that ring with the sense
as the absence of any such experience. But of the absolute and the certainty of Truth.
it becomes easy enough to understand that
this inaccessibility is in fact an inability due The means of Knowledge
to the limits imposed by nature around each
species. The animal cannot think of philosophy This makes a hierarchy of thought itself. But
or poetry because its cognitive ability is grossly we do not ordinarily experience these higher
limited. But man can. So too there are ranges levels of thought. Yet by the practice of yoga
of thought and experiences that man normally the doors of our limited consciousness open
cannot reach but by certain practices of yoga and we awaken to these higher possibilities
he can. that give us much more direct access to
knowledge. Here the very understanding of
These still higher ranges of thought are knowledge changes.
symbolic thoughts that see in all objects a
symbol of another deeper Reality. There is Knowledge is not something we acquire or
yet another discerning thought that is able build by putting together bits and pieces of
to distinguish between the true and the information after they have been subjected to
false. There is a revelatory thought as well the power of reason and analysis. This, in the
as creative bursts of inspiration that brings language of yoga, is an illusion of knowledge,
down illumination as well as cooling showers a workable system, convenient and practical
from higher states giving that famous ‘Aha’ and yet false. We come back to our original
experience of a sudden burst of insight as if a analogy. The electric line man knows how to
light had struck the dark rooms of our mind fix the fuse and restore electricity due to the
and revealed in a flash what we had been blowing up of a wire. But he does not know
struggling to know for decades. what exactly electricity is.

Thought climbs even further, beyond insight So also the electrical engineer knows the laws
there is the direct sight of the seer. There is of electricity but he is not the one who created
the possibility within us of the awakening electricity. He has simply found ways and
of intuition and intuitive thought that enters means of ‘tapping’ the electricity that is
large spaces of time and reveals to us what is inherent in matter and material phenomena.
still hidden within the folds of unknown fate. It is this power that is already inherent in
And there is yet another beyond this into the nature, this power that has mysteriously
realm of pure Ideas, not ideas as we mentally determined its laws and processes in keeping
understand but the Idea-forces that stand with the total balance of other forces and
behind creation and lend an inner impulsion powers operating in nature that is called

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