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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

During this phase of development stretching that help us turn inwards. A wider and
through lives, the surface personality that we more integral way is the triple path of the
ignorantly call ourselves is unaware of any Gita, or desireless action done in a state of
soul within. Nor is there any inclination to remembrance and offering to the Divine.
discover it. One is generally busy facing the There are other ways that utilise special and
strokes and blows of life and learning from occult means to break the barrier between
these things. Slowly the inner seed begins our outer self that has stuck so far to the
to ripen. It is then that the blows increase crust and coat of the seed. But the essential
as if to break the outer coat and release this thing is to turn inwards in search of the soul
seed within. Even if there are no blows the rather than remain busy responding to each
individual whose soul-moment is arriving suggestion that flows through the brain and
begins to feel stifled within for no apparent every sensation that knocks at our door. Quite
reason. He feels a stranger to this world and naturally such individuals prefer isolation
seeks a meaning in all this drama. He raises though as they advance on the path this
uncomfortable questions that challenge need is replaced by an inner isolation which
his belief systems, whether the dogmas of one can have even in a crowd or on the
formal religions or the worse rigid articles battlefield.
of ideological beliefs. When this happens
then the time of soul emergence is closing in. The process of this interiorisation is again
very simple to understand though not so easy
Next comes the moment of the unexpected. to start with. Normally our consciousness
Something happens, generally an outer event is entangled with the instruments of nature
that serves only as an excuse or a trigger, and since that is part of the process of creation.
our being takes a new turn. We begin to seek Without this support of consciousness the
spiritual truths even though not necessarily universe will cease to exist. It is further
in that name. We are drawn towards high spread out through the doors of the senses
and beautiful things. A faith and intuitive and the mind into all kinds of external objects
sense of the Divine, that transcends belief, to which we are tied through attachment,
awakens. Sooner or later we find ourselves seeking for pleasure and even by sheer force
undertaking some kind of an elementary of habit. Yet this consciousness that is thus
practice and exploring the far limits of our tied and entangled can be withdrawn to a
consciousness. A new journey has begun and large extent while just enough is left to keep
we have embarked ourselves in search of the basic functioning of life intact.
our soul.
Imagine, for example, that one has huge
This journey is very different from all that we heaps of money stored and stacked at a
have known so far. We are no more interested place. Now this much is not needed for the
as much in outward things that engage the daily maintenance or needs of life. Yet it is
senses but are drawn inward to find our core. stacked up and piled up due to attachment,
This process of turning inwards is called habit and pleasure. In the bargain we cannot
interiorisation. Meditation, concentration, use this money in better ways. It is simply
contemplation are some well-known processes not available. Yet much of it can be easily

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