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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

Today a postgraduate in Psychology and new spiritual impulse is overtaking mankind,
Psychiatry is ill-equipped to discuss the field a curve of intuition, a seeking after things that
of spirituality. He either discards it completely are not yet but can and must be. Thanks to
without even studying it as the eighteenth the invasions of India the return gifts carried
century enthusiast of science did. What is away by the colonisers was the profound
worse is that he does not even recognise wisdom enshrined in the spiritual scriptures
that he is living in some past era of science which were too many and too varied and
while the world is moving away from too deep to be resisted even by the strictly
this dichotomy and human experience is analytical worshippers of reason.
turning towards tasting the fruits of spiritual
endeavour. Tired of the inadequacies of a The heavenly psyche
world built by reason alone with little place
for deeper things, man is naturally turning So what really is this secret soul within us?
towards those deeper founts of wisdom that According to the experience of countless
lie concealed within the secret spaces of his mystics and yogis, there is indeed a soul-
soul. Apollo and Minerva are casting their reality within us, a reality that is subtle and
masks and crude ill-fitting robes of material constituted of elements other than the five
intellect and analytical sense-driven reason elements and forces constituting the material
and assuming diviner forms through man’s and other fields. Therefore it cannot be
seeking for Wisdom and Light and Truth. dissolved or destroyed by forces that destroy
or dissolve the material substance or even
This growing spiritual seeking and its substances subtler than gross matter, — fire
pressing demand is witnessing the rise of cannot burn it nor the waters drench and
spiritual gurus and masters, not all of whom drown it, winds dry it not, nor the weapons
may be well equipped to satisfy the needs of pierce and cleave it. This is one way of
the spiritual aspirant. Some indeed may be expressing that the substance of which the
charlatans and there is nothing surprising soul is constituted is indestructible.
about it. There are charlatans everywhere,
in science and medicine and art and law It is other than the five elements that constitute
and economics and politics. But just as the all creation in the material, vital and mental
presence of charlatans does not mean that worlds of existence. Or to put it in another way
the truth of a subject does not exist, so too it is none of the matter-energy combinations
the presence of fake and self-styled spiritual that we know of. It is the stuff of pure
masters (whatever it means) does not mean consciousness, so to say. All our senses
that there is no truth in spiritual seeking and and natural instruments through which we
there are no true masters and genuine gurus. perceive rather than ‘know’ things are built
Whatever it be, the growing spiritual seeking and organised by the five elements of nature.
expressing itself through things as diverse But the soul being beyond these cannot be
as drugs and alternate experience to neo- perceived by those instruments that are not
cults and spiritual sects is a sign of our times. built to register its presence. What these
Clearly the Age of Reason is coming to a close instruments can register is the impact of the
and transcending both reason and religion, a soul upon our nature. This does not mean that

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