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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

life of an animal before he affirms and puts
to full use the components of his mind and
wins over the lower nature.

A human being who is attached to food and
sex has no other way than to live the life of
an animal bound to Arisadvargas and enjoys
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these emotions in an animalistic way. Animal
life invests a major part of its vitality in these
activities, which are regulated completely by
the nature with the least possibility for
seriously retard mental refinement, Nature individual interference. As long as individuality
devised them for a purpose that is quite is not built and exercised, the Arissaddvargas
different and utilitarian. These emotions protect and uphold the being from death
help to protect an animal from becoming and destruction. By exercising the higher
bankrupt of food and shelter and save itself faculties of reason or viveka, memory or
from death. When understood closely, the bodhana and discrimination or buddhi, man
lower nature allows and encourages animals has to grow out of these negative emotions
to indulge in these negative emotions in order and live in peace, freedom and love. Yoga or
to forget the fear of death for the time being. the ancient wisdom suggests various means
These are the forces that foster ego and bring to achieve this transformation of the lower
out the growth of various facets of personality life into a higher life.
through clash, strife and competition. That
is how the lower nature, with its animalistic In yoga, Arisadvargas are used to explain all
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behaviours and instinctual responses, has perverse psychology. Even the cause of a
been built and effectively operated even physical disease can be explained and its cure
before man with his abilities of mind came possible when one can comprehend the occult
into existence and displaced animals to a neuro-chemical changes that support these
lower rung of evolutionary order. emotions. When one meditates on each of
these emotions, one can see the obvious
The higher order of life or higher life is chain-like succession that continues between
imbued with the advantages of fine-tuned these emotions and all other variables of
expressions which assure emotional stability emotions fit into one or other categories of
and time-tuned processes which assure life these chief emotions. It is interesting to find
beyond death. The lower order of life or lower that the animal or human being is attached
life cares little for finer emotions or refinement to the instincts of food and sex as long as
of emotions and death is an inevitable process they live the lower life but abstains from
and a challenge out of which life has to pass them when he is caught by a sublimated or
through and prove victorious if it has to sustain. positive emotion. Indulgence in food and sex
Man cannot have the advantage of living a can benumb and degrade one`s emotional
higher life just because he is born as a man. sensibility and behaviour and bring oneself
He has to pass through the lower life or the closer to matter, whereas sublime emotions

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