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and completeness. It is a science in its own “Man fulfilling himself in the body is given
right as it teaches us the various ways. Yet, Hathayoga as his means. When he rises
like all sciences and arts, it has also evolved above the body, he abandons Hathayoga
with man and is continuing to evolve until as a troublesome and inferior process and
the yoga of man becomes one with the Yoga rises to the Rajayoga, the discipline peculiar
of the Divine. The Yoga of the Divine is to to the aeon in which man now evolves.The
manifest the Divine Perfection upon earth. first condition of success in Rajayoga is to rise
Man’s yoga too will arrive at its perfect superior to the dehatmak bodh, the state of
fullness when he unites the earth with the perception in which the body is identified with
Divine in a perfect and harmonious oneness. the self. A time comes to the Rajayogin when
This will be the perfect remedy of all our his body seems not to belong to him or he to
ills, not a palliative or even a preventive, have any concern with it. He is not troubled
but transformative, with no further by its troubles or gladdened by its pleasures;
possibility of suffering and evil, illness and it has them to itself and very soon, because he
grief and sorrow and pain. Meanwhile, does not give his sanction to them, they fall
Yoga itself is evolving even as it helps man away from it. His own troubles and pleasures
to evolve. In other words, there is a Yoga are in the heart and mind, for he is the rajasic
most suited to each evolutionary stage and psychical man, not the tamasic material.
arranging themselves in a hierarchical It is these that he has to conquer in order
system. that he may realise God in his heart or in his
buddhi or in both. God seen in the heart, that
“The evolution of man has been upwards is the quest of the Rajayogin. He may recover
from the body to the spirit, and there are the perception and enjoyment of the body
three stages in his progress. He bases afterwards, but it is only to help the enjoyment
himself upon body, rises through soul and of God as Love and God as Knowledge (6)”
culminates in spirit. And to each stage of his
evolution belong certain kinds of saadhanaa, The Hatthayoga, that seems to be the oldest
a particular type of Yoga, a characteristic kind of practice, seems to be the product
fulfilment. There has been no eon in man’s of an age when the physical man or rather
history, no kalpa, to use the Indian term, in humanity was largely centred around the
which the Yoga was withheld from man or body and the vital physical nature. It was
fulfilment denied to him. But the fulfilment closer to the animal kind and knew the body
corresponded to his stage of progress, and to be the self. Hence the elaborate practices
the Yoga corresponded to the fulfilment. In to release the consciousness trapped in the
his earlier development, he was realising material case. The Hatthayoga brought out
himself in the body and the divinity of unusual potential latent in the body and, by
the body was his fulfilment. He is now going deeper within the body and its vital,
realising himself in the heart and mind, and nervous energy body sought for its secret
the divinity of the heart and mind will be soul. The results were astounding as far as
his culmination. Eventually, he will realise the body is concerned but the process was
himself in the spirit and the divinity of his too cumbersome and instead of finding
true spiritual self will round off his history…. the soul they ended up discovering the

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