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Yogic insights into human psychology

Psychology with a soul

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
The missing piece of the human puzzle is the soul. Without it we only skim around adjusting the
different pieces of human nature, shifting the different pieces in search of the ever-elusive centre.
But once the soul is discovered then the rest of the pieces start falling into place.

The missing psyche of psychology while it grows in its beauty and radiance.
A moment comes when it begins to grow
One of the major points of divergence between aware of its own truth. Being the divine
yogic and modern psychology is the presence element within our mortal frame, the pressure
or absence of the soul or a true self behind the of the growing soul within begins to turn
human personality. It is a bit ironical since human beings away from worldly pleasures
the word psyche refers to the goddess of the (Aphrodite) towards things that are high and
soul in ancient Greek mythology. The word true and good and beautiful. But this is no
has an interesting history. According to the easy task. Aphrodite tries her best to resist the
Greek myth, Psyche was the goddess of the growing influence of the psychic being since it
soul and the wife of Eros (god of love / life). would mean not only the end of Aphrodite’s
Once a mortal princess, she earned the ire empire but also eventually of the gods.
of Aphrodite (goddess of passion, pleasure
and procreation) since the extraordinary This is so, as is well-known in Indian yoga,
beauty of Psyche made mortals turn away since the soul in man is not just a godhead
from Aphrodite in favour of this girl / new capable of lifting human beings to heights
goddess. The story, like many ancient myths of inner glory and wisdom but capable of
carries within it the seed of a profound truth. making the human consciousness enter into
The psychic being in man refers to the soul relations with the Supreme. If it is allowed
that is caught up in the web of mortality. its free play then this would mean that man
Though itself indestructible, identified with can become greater than the gods (and the
the mortal body it seems to die but is actually titans). No wonder the discovery of the soul
passing through cycles of birth and death finds little or no place in certain religions (it is

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