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Namah Yogic insights into human psychology

But as anyone with an awakened thought yoga takes hold of to go beyond humanity.
can see, these are such inadequate means Humanity, at least as we experience it, has
that if we were to rely upon them alone then according to yoga, not yet arrived at its
we have to give up on perfecting life beyond complete possibilities. This is something
a certain point. That highest point will be that even common sense and the long
determined by the limits of our senses and history of earthly evolution would tend to
reason, but also by the limits of our moral and agree. Even a little look into man’s nature
ethical considerations. We all however know would tell us that man is programmed
that reason alone is insufficient to take us for evolution, at least to a transcendence
beyond a point in our search for knowledge. of what he believes himself to be. The
We also know how even an awakened sense difference however lies in the discovery
of ethics cannot resolve certain dilemmas that made by yoga that this further evolution
we encounter in our daily life. of man is not only likely but is very much
possible and is at least partially in man’s
And yet despite these obvious limits, the hands.
dream of perfection never dies. It survives
every defeat and failure. It returns even after Yoga uses this innate aspiration and urge
civilisations have collapsed and a whole age in man to go beyond itself and, by pushing
of mankind has vanished from the face of the one aspect or element or power of nature
earth. Even when our outer life is burdened to exceed beyond the limits of its normal
and busy with the tramp and noise of external possibilities, pierces a little hole in the
things, this dream of a higher, a better, a magic fence of nature. Then, through this
greater life shimmers in some far background. hole, the human consciousness escapes
In moments of crisis it bounces back with a into other domains and dimensions of
cry or else in some lucid moments when a existence that await our discovery. By
ray from the higher worlds stoops for a while doing so, we discover a new Self which
and lights up our dark rooms we experience a is very different from the self with which
sudden burst of sight and a revealing insight we are presently identified. Our present
shows us what we had never ever imagined. sense of self is a construct of our birth and
But after the moment is gone, the crisis is over environment, it is a temporary mechanism
and the heavenly light retires, we return to of nature which we have to discard or
our old ways and feel safe within our human use as an instrument once we discover a
boundaries and take comfort in numbers. greater Self within us. So too, our nature has
Yet the aspiration, the longing returns and latent possibilities which can be discovered
intensifies with every fall. It spreads through or rather uncovered through yoga. We do use
different layers and members of our complex some of these latent possibilities though
being, preparing us in ways we cannot even often quite unconsciously. Take for instance
conceive until one day the attractive cocoon of the role of thought-formations in health
our human sheaths begin to stifle the winged and healing. Through yoga we are able
angel within us. to naturally draw thought-power that is
uplifting and full of positive hope and
It is this persistent aspiration in humanity that rejuvenating energy and healing vibrations.

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