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Namah The wheel of lower life

can take us to the heights of life and cherish of water on earth), terrestrial plants and egg-
noble thinking. In yoga, the negative emotions laying animals (anddaja-seed born, i.e. life is
of lower life are turned into levers to positive transported to distant places for replication),
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emotions of love, courage, equanimity, and evolved animals or mammals (jarayuja-
aspiration, gratitude and peace once the born with ability to move, i.e. the sense of
emotional identification with the instincts right movement is given in the womb itself)
of food and sex are overcome. are packed in the form of genes and split into
appropriate patterns to manifest that strata
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Kaama or lust is the desire for possession of a of life are provoked as a result of kama.
thing or sexual enjoyment. On the subconscient
level, the sexual urge translates itself into
egoistic assertion and satisfaction of
possessing a thing and thus desire of all
kinds is considered as kaama. This emotion is
cunningly explosive and is a never-ending
process trickily put into living beings by
Nature itself in order to use them as tools to
achieve certain distant goals. Its chief purpose
is prolongation of life of the race or the species
and the building up of improvised models
with changed patterns to survive the struggle
for existence and provide life with a sense
of comfort at the expense of other things or
beings. It brings in distant inputs for growth
and packs them into too tiny corpuscles of
energy which spurt out at the least sensual
contact of a vacuum that can take out or offer
life in a moment. The fission of bacteria or
virus or the meiosis of a spore or a seed or
a gamete, which are the seasonal schisms
that may end in death or lead to perennial
multiplication or mitosis, are the result of
kaama. Though the origin of kaama is in the
superconscient and is meant for the noble
cause of the protection of species, its action The energy that sustains this ‘emotion of
proceeds straight into the inconscient and its schism’ is of a very high order which can
effects take shape in the subconscient. All the destroy the very roots of existence or recreate
qualities of lower life starting from micro- endlessly and often carelessly with little
organisms and parasites (called udbhija, born respect to an aesthetic sense by using any
from earth, i.e. through simple fission), sea amount of physical material that is available.
algae and amphibian plants (swedaja- born Even a little amount of this energy, when
from sweat, i.e. from the initial occurrence misused, can prove detrimental to the very

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