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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 4, 15th January 2023

in the company of individualised human Rather, very often it hastily dismisses them
beings. The former simply compels him to as impossible or imaginary.
act according to some kind of mass effect by
sheer volume and pressure of certain kinds of
formations that move around as in a market-
place. And those who have not organised
their thoughts and let it remain like a public
square or a market-place swarming with
desires are easily swayed by these impulses.
It is like a wave that grips the human mind
and vital, making it restless and compelling it
to act in certain ways that are not only infra-
rational but even diabolic. The hidden territory

On the other hand, man has this unique Any psychological paradigm of man that
possibility to individualise and thereby choose does not take into account this greater
the forces that will express itself through him potential or sees in man either a two-legged
while refusing the impulsion and push from animal, armoured with the ability to deceive
another. This element of ‘free choice’ opens through speech and hunt and prey using
for him the doors to a future evolution (or more sophisticated means, or else merely

degeneration) based on the choices he makes. a biological creature product of his genes,
Whether this choice is really free or not may has missed the totality of man and his most
be a subject of metaphysical debate. But it essential core. True, it is that humanity in
makes practically no difference to the fact the masses is still not individualised. There
that, in the absence of sure instinct of the is still too much of the animal in man that
animal world, man is compelled to make cares mainly for its feeding space, its hunting
choices. But these choices not only relate to and mating.
his everyday living but to something much
deeper and higher than he can ordinarily Yet this is not the whole truth of being human.
envisage. That is why the science of psychology cannot
rest with behaviourism or with the analytical
If on the one side these choices can open schools that look primarily at the deep-rooted
the doors to regression towards man’s animal forces that lie in our underbelly. It
inhuman and animal past as indeed, we must graduate itself and search for the soul
witness sometimes in abnormal psychotic within if it has to complete the unfinished
phenomenon, they can also open the doors book of human nature.
towards luminous kingdoms within and
states of consciousness and tracts of light It is here that yoga steps in. Yoga is in fact
and force and love that lie asleep within us. conscious evolution through intelligent
Modern psychology is yet to explore these choices. Intelligent choices are not necessarily
uncharted territories that await our discovery those choices which make us thrive or survive
through conscious evolution. better in the corporate jungle. Intelligent

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