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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

from food and interchanges with people and Useful as they are no doubt — and it is now too
the environment. Most of us represent a small well known to be elaborated — there are other
container shrunk by the ego-self. But a yogin processes, internal psychological processes so
experiences a widening of his consciousness to speak, which help us immensely to get rid
and thereby opens to a much greater influx of the stresses and strains in our everyday life.
of energies from all around. Thirdly, the As noted above, the practice of nisskaamakarma
work of a yogin does not stem from desire (action undertaken without an eye on the
but from something much more powerful fruit) is a wonderful antidote to the stresses
and that is love. Whatever a yogin does, he we feel which are due to undue expectations
quite naturally puts his heart and soul into and anxieties about the future. Many people
it, literally so. Finally, by subordinating his think that one acts only for the fruits and if
individual personal will to something higher this was not thought of, then the very basis
and vaster, the divine Will, he quite naturally of action is gone.
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opens to the divine Sakti itself that is working
in creation from behind the veils of nature.
As a result of all this, a yogin has a free and
easy access to delight and hence he does
not try to amass wealth or other poor and
dark substitutes for happiness since he has
an abundance of it at his disposal. But this
Delight is a creative force and it pours through
the yogin in countless works. Not only is the
quantum of work much more but the yield
is of a very good andsuperior quality, since
he is now one with every original impulsion
of creation. His creativity therefore touches
peak in whatever sphere it is turned towards. This is not true. Some of the greatest and
mightiest actions documented in history have
The perfect remedy for stress and suffering been not acts done with calculation about
the fruits of efforts but acts of spontaneous
We can therefore easily see how a sustained sacrifice for an Idea one believes in, or acts of
practice of yoga can make our individual and valour for the sake of honour even though one
collective life much better, lifting it towards knows it is inviting imminent death, or higher
some high ideal of a diviner living. Even at still, acts of love for which even wars have
a much lesser pitch, it takes away the stress been fought and won against terrible odds.
and strain that we constantly experience and The aggressive man who wants to dominate
thereby improves remarkably the quality the world and strides across the continents
of our life. The role of yogic practices and as a gigantic shadow is an Asura and not a
yogic approach in reducing stress is already true Kssatriya. A true warrior-type, whether
well known. But most often, it ends up with in India as the Kssatriya or Samurai or Knights
an almost exclusive emphasis on certain have acted for valour and honour rather than
techniques such as meditation and pranayama. for any outer results.
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