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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

power one wields and not its slave. A strong and when the divine Will in creation is to
man is calm as a lion though fierce and break the fixed formats of life we see the
fearless if he is called upon to battle. This rajasic man multiply, as had happened and is
is the great though remarkable difference still happening in the world. The forces and
between the two. A truly strong man does tamas and tamasic man come in to complete
not fight for petty personal reasons nor does the process of disintegration. He finishes what
he fume with anger and spew hatred and the rajasic man initiated. All this eventually
venom on those who oppose him. He is rather helps the Evolutionary Power to give birth
a man of justice and fair dealing. If justice and to new forms and institutions to embody the
strength is his right arm then compassion and New Spirit of an Age.
forgiveness is his left. This type surely ruled
the earth once until it became replaced more But when the new idea has found its ground
and more by the intellectual type of mankind, upon earth then it is through the sattvic man
whose centre of vision and action is thought that it is kept alive and preserved. Though
rather than feelings and will. each individual carries something in him of
all the three gunas, yet there are predominant
The balanced and reasonable sattvic man types of humanity that emerge through the
course of the long evolutionary journey
Out of the rajasic man emerges a sattvic of the soul in man. This evolution is the
humanity. Neither the inertia of the tamasic real cause for rebirth and not reward and
man and his slow pace of thought and will, punishment as we often presume. Reward
nor the action-oriented rajasic man ready and punishment is a human concept based on
to rush and leap is in his walk. The sattvic an instinctive need for justice and balance. In
man walks a measured life. His is a life of the divine vision it changes its form as with
balance and an instinctive need for harmony, all human values, and instead of a balance
peace and light. Moderation in all things is created through reward and punishment, it
his watchword. It is not that he is free from becomes a balance created through a growing
ego but his is a gentler ego-apparatus that evolutionary push given to each individual.
is not hardened and fastened with knots of This push comes from within and when an
arrogance nor is he drunken with pride. His individual experiences this evolutionary
pride takes the form of self-respect rather pressure from within to move up the ladder
than the vanity to which the vital rajasic man of gunas, he often goes through a period of
is more prone to. He may be ambitious but stifling psychological pain. It is the pain of
he would not like to break the rules or do a new birth. He also experiences dislocation
something unfair and unjust so as to satisfy from the circumstances of his birth and
his ambitions. He believes in fair dealings passes through a borderland of No-man’s
with his fellow-men and has in general a zone, which can be very disconcerting. We
kindlier attitude towards all creatures. see this too happening in our times since it
is the Age when the evolutionary march of
The progressive transition mankind has been given a big push.

The rajasic man is needed to break the limits Much however depends upon how the

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