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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 2, 15th July 2020

by their speed. His excessive drunkenness advances further and out of the kinetic rajasic
with pride and arrogance is bound to lead to man there emerges the soul of courage, beauty
eventual failure and fall so that he can retrace and love. The aggressive violent humanity
the journey with the steady and proper steps changes into a true warrior-type of humanity,
of ascension marked out for humanity. a being that is just and fair, self-controlled
even in its power, a master and not a slave of
The gentler humanity his tremendous energies. Here we find after
much effort the first proper rajasic humanity
There is however a gentler version of the who is ready for a conscious participation in
rajasic kinetic man. He too is driven by desire his own individual as well as thecollective
where his centre lies, but his is the way of evolution of humanity. He is the true Kssatriya,
hewing his path not with the axe of the the knight and the Samurai who emerges from
angry man with proud violent deeds but a humanity prone to the bourgeois ideal of
through charm and snare of emotions. He life, a humanity whose glory has been sung
gets his due through affection and mutuality, in a number of scriptures.
through co-operation and collaboration than
through competition and battle. He grows as Here we must distinguish, as yoga psychology
a harmonious vital man who nevertheless does, between violence and strength. Violence is
expands his empire but in ways that do the sign of vital weakness. It shows an inability
not hurt another even though it is his own to hold the vital force which must be thrown
benefit that concerns him most. This is quite out at the first opportunity of fight through
a successful evolutionary type. anger. Strength on the other hand is always
self-contained, a master of the energies and
The violent angry type succeeds but only
temporarily, even though mightily. Yet his
age seems to be soon coming to a close as it is
counter-productive to the collective evolution
of humanity. He is still needed when nature
wants sudden upheavals and is keen to
advance through swift and sudden leaps,
through rapid revolution rather than through
a slow evolution. But whenever nature strives
for the collective growth rather than of the
few powerful individuals it prefers the latter
type. However, nature cannot yet spare the
violent aggressive type until humanity lives
under the law of truth and peace and natural
harmony.

Birth of the warrior-type and the Samurai

However evolution does not stop here. It The Samurai

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