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The nature of higher life

Dr. Venkatesh Palla

Abstract
Ordinary people look at the surface of things and reach conclusions. But yogic sciences have their
own categorisation of sense-data and the conclusions that are derived from a yogic perspective
become practical tools to deal with critical problems and situations. A classification of life is taken
up in this article. Readers may refer to an earlier issue of NAMAH and read more about this in the
article, ‘The Wheel of Lower Life’.*

mada (aggrandisation) and maatsarya (envy),
which serve as powerhouses of negative
energy and operate cyclically till all the
subconscient motives of life are exhausted.
The attraction towards lower life is so strong
that even man, the most evolved being gifted
with the faculty of mind, cannot escape but
surrenders to this evolutionary nisus as
long as he does not free himself through a
spiritual knowledge of the cause of his birth
or exercises a strong mental will against
these evil interferences (through sadhana) and
a
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selects a course of life that suits his cause of
birth. The downward pull brings man and
his mind to the memories of the primitive
lifestyles of bacteria, worms and animals,
The lower life is a life overpowered by which play back from the subconscient as if
animalistic instincts and is imbued with the they were inerasably recorded and they have
six sinister emotions of kaama(lust), krodha to be necessarily decoded from his genes in
(anger), lobha(greed), moha (infatuation), order to erase them from the deep memory

*Volume 28, Issue 3: 2020, pp. 13-19.

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