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Namah The Unfinished Chapter of Psychology

the field of material physics where it is or cause and effect.
rather was generally believed that the field
of study is static, though, even here, as recent If this is true of the material field, it is even
studies indicate, that the solidity of matter more so in the fields of life, of biological
is itself an illusion. Behind the apparently sciences where the landscape is ever
perceptible solid phenomenon, there is a changing, adapting, evolving. It becomes
world of imperceptible movement, a dance even more difficult since a new element enters
of energy throwing out new patterns that the material world which cannot be observed,
ever repeat the old and hence give us the let alone measured until the phenomenon
impression of stability. If the dance were to has taken place. This new element is intent.
change, if the habitual motion of particles In the early stirrings of animal life, this intent
were to follow another course, then our can to an extent be bypassed since there is
understanding of things and predictability mainly the instinct that governs with as much
of events would undergo a tremendous shift. surety as the laws of material nature. But as
animal life develops, it becomes a little more
There is no real way that we can predict the difficult since new and different conditions
change and its direction unless we take a leap can arise leading to the change in pattern,
of faith or a leap of reason and assume that new properties and even capacities, which
behind the cosmic dance, behind the whorl may emerge due to evolutionary challenges.
and the patterns, there is an eternal Dancer Science generally gets to know about the
whose rapturous moods takes the shape of changes once they are complete. But it is very
a dance thereby creating systems of worlds. difficult, in fact, near impossible to know the
If the rhythm changes, the patterns change, direction that things will take up and end.
can even collapse or, following the collapse
be built again. But when it comes to the mind an even more
new factor intervenes making it difficult
It is this powerful and beautiful image that to predict. The intent in animals is largely
we see in the famous dance of SSiva, Nataraja, instinctive but with the development of mind
whose rhythms can destroy (taanddavaba) or in higher animals and human beings the
a
create (lasya), giving rise to cycles of cosmic intent becomes a matter of conscious or semi-
formations leading to the birth of the stars conscious choice. To make matters even more
and worlds or shrrstti, as well to cosmic complex, what we call as one’s own choice
destruction or pralaya. The yogin tries to find is the result of pressure from several forces
ways and means to understand the moods from the people and environment around us.
of SSiva and SSakti and thereby predicts things
that are not yet, but yet shall be. He notices Besides, these forces have an occult dimension
the change before the change begins. It is that is not yet fully recognised by modern
another kind of Science, another kind of psychiatry that bases itself mostly on biology
predictability that history vindicates and time and internal psychological forces. But there
justifies even though it is not yet measured are cosmic forces external to man that push
or noticed by instruments designed to study him to act. Thus, for example, a human
the present rhythms and their immediate being is different in a crowd as when he is

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