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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 4, 15th January 2021

Thus the evolutionary paradigm would the play of strife, conflict and battle should
study how aggression moves up the scale dominate. To be successful in the lower
from the world of animals. The physical Nature, aggression and violence would not
paradigm would unravel the workings of be unnatural. There was therefore no option
the consciousness as discernible through the for Sri Krrssna but to sanction the battle of
a
a
neuro-endocrine axis. The depth psychology Mahabharata as a law of action in the field of
would delve down to understand the Ignorance. No wonder that Heraclitus had
unconscious roots of behaviour. The social declared that war was the father of all things.
sciences would study the social matrix that History is testimony to the fact that it is itself
facilitates aggression. a chronicle of battles and assassinations in a
life of peoples subsisting in Ignorance. If an
Yoga psychology acknowledges that a world emperor wanted to enforce peace, he had
of multiplicity, that facilitates uniqueness, can to force the rebellious groups, albeit with
only do justice to itself if it has lost the unity- violence, to agree to peace! In other words,
principle. But that was inevitable to build a it is impossible to avoid aggression in the
world of variability and differentiation. What domain of lower Nature.
could happen if we shifted to a world where
the multiplicity was aware of the unity-principle, As aggression is inevitable in the lower Nature,
where variability would manifest in a matrix of some idealists have advocated peaceful and
unity? All our equations would change. physically non-violent approaches to demand
justice and rights, thinking that this could
Spiritual experience reveals that such a be a superior mode of action. The Mother
possibility actually exists where the multiplicity was categorical that physical non-violence
is simultaneously aware of its unitary origin. actually facilitated moral violence which
This is possible in a superior poise of Nature was equally disruptive: “…moral violence is
a
called Higher Nature or Paraprakrrti. just as bad as physical violence. It can even be
worse; that is, at least physical violence obliges
Nature or Prakrti in the Indian tradition is actually you to become strong, self-controlled, whereas
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cosmic energy. The world of multiplicity and moral violence….. You can be like this (Mother
variability that has lost contact with the unity- demonstrates an apparent calm) and yet have a
principle operates in the lower Nature or terrible moral violence (2).”
Aparaaprakrrti. This is a world of Ignorance as
the underlying unity cannot express itself. It is It is only if there is a shift of consciousness
natural that a variable multiplicity can thrive in from the lower Nature to the Higher Nature
a matrix of disequilibrium where development that the saga of aggression and violence
of the uniqueness of a particular entity can would become redundant. The Higher
be at the cost of another. If one nation wins Nature operates on the unity-principle and
a battle or if one team wins a football match is therefore reflective of true Knowledge
then simultaneously another nation is defeated that is wholistic and integral. The Higher
and another team is the loser. Nature is the domain of peace, harmony and
spontaneous mutuality where aggression and
Thus in the lower Nature it is natural that violence are not required.

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