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Namah The two paths

the body metabolism and conserve energy. what this future truly holds for us the next
They can also open to the universal vital moment because it knows not the thread that
a
energy, pranna, that keeps them healthy and links our past with the future. Knowing this
fit with a minimum intake of food. Certainly, inadequacy the seers and yogis explored

these extreme practices are generally not other possibilities and discovered faculties
recommended and balance is always a saner that are asleep within us such as intuition,
and safer approach to life. But the possibility revelation, even direct vision. Though few,
is there. How far can it extend? There are they are still a living testimony to what mankind
instances where even autonomic systems. has in store in the evolutionary process.
such as the heartbeat, could be brought back
to almost nil and yet the person continues to This does not mean abandoning reason but
be alive and conscious. using it for its rightful purpose and assigning
it the right place. Reason itself did not discard
Here we must understand that the mind the animal instinct and impulses but modified
domain is not a small expanse or stretch of it, trying to expand its range. So too the
road that ends with the emergence of reason. emergence of intuition and revelatory
Human consciousness, and the human mind insights does not discard reason but uses
along with it is still evolving. There are many it for the purpose for which it is meant,
more domains and possibilities yet within the which is to organise our lower life into some
mental domain that await our exploration semblance of order. Later a still higher faculty
and expression through evolution. It is even will emerge to not only put things in order
logical that nature is bound to eventually but to harmonise all life according to the law
leave behind reason and analysis, replacing of a vast and all-comprehensive Truth. All
it with more direct ways of knowing. these faculties which we witness in certain
exceptional people or in ordinary humanity
Reason and analysis based on a limited under exceptional circumstances are bound
observation are laborious and inadequate to become more common as the evolutionary
processes. They have done their bit by pressure increases. This process can however
organising the animal impulses and ordering be accelerated and the means to do it is the
the free-flowing movement of life into some true sense of yoga. Yoga does not help us
kind of metre and rhythm. It has helped cut regress to the old animal balance but helps us
life into little sections to study and interpret evolve further by bringing in new forces into
and understand. But it fails miserably when play and thereby resets the balance at a higher
it tries to go beyond its brief. For example, it level, making it not only more complete but
can conceive to an extent but cannot find the also more enduring.
key to live the truth of interconnectedness
of life and all things. It finds mathematical Newer possibilities of the body itself
equations to solve the problems of physics
but the problem of life remains unsolved. Finally, there are new possibilities within
the body itself. If we look at the trajectory
It can conceive of a future by projecting the of evolution, we shall find that the form or
present towards it, but cannot truly know the body is like a magic box out of which

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