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Vir-us to rewire us

Poorva Sharma

Abstract
Sometimes when an individual or a collectivity is going through an immense conflict, a difficult
situation, away from our field of vision something in the depths is also bringing out strengths and
solutions which otherwise would have taken centuries perhaps to appear. Yoga, as Sri Aurobindo
said, is one way to catalyse this process of growth and progress. The following article is an attempt
to articulate how yoga not only can ‘appear’ in the most difficult times, but there come times
in front of humanity as a whole when yoga is the only way out. The corona crisis has not only
convulsed us in every way but it has paradoxically also clearly highlighted what really we should
be doing as a species. Yoga, which means union, is the way out: Yoga with our inner depths, yoga
with the wider Nature, yoga with our inner feminine, which has been suppressed for millennia
now. Using a dream, the article attempts to present a viewpoint on what corona really represents
and is asking us to do.

The landscape is a lush, deep forest. In the who has been a seeker (unconsciously or
foreground is what appears to be a bush, consciously) for much of my life, I have
a brightly-coloured bush that looks like always had a special relationship with
something out of science fiction as it is dreams. Thankfully, none of my teachers
unique to the shrubbery around it. In fact, back in college were of the paradigm who
the neon-coloured blossoms on the shrub are described dreams as ‘meaningless over-
the club shaped viral spike peplomers of a activity of the brain neurons’ and at least
virus and I immediately know this ‘bush’ to from then on my natural curiosity about what
be an image of a coronavirus. A female deer dreams really are has remained a source of
is peacefully munching on these ‘blossoms’ inspiration, excitement, and awe. I also am
one by one. I take the image of the deer eating sharing my thoughts here with the belief that
the blossoms of the virus bush to represent most of you are like me, students of their
how the wonders of the natural world can own psyches, or souls, and so have your own
be an antidote to the pandemics of our time. relationship with dreams.

Being a psychology student, as well as someone Among all the Western psychologists, it

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