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8 Lessons on The Yoga of PatanjaliThis science presupposes the need and the utility of the individualeffort to lift oneself up into the being of the real self, from theactivity of the not-self i.e. the lower being of the human existence.Everything is natural in this creation of God. The adventof man on this earth is also natural since it is not man-proposed.It is a process that is preprogrammed, preplanned and it formspart of the planetary work of this earth. The earth goes onproducing its own kingdoms : the Mineral Kingdom, the PlantKingdom, the Animal Kingdom and the Human Kingdom. Thewhole creation starts with the work of the Intelligences in naturewhich we call the members of the Deva Kingdom. At the endwe find the human Kingdom that includes the flower and thefruit of the evolution on this earth. Hence the Devas expectthat the human being should join hands with the Deva Kingdomas a scout and a helper to the Devas. This expected role ofman is technically called Yajna in Sanskrit. Pythogoras called itTheocracy. To that end the human being is being trained by theDevas of our Planet.Though everything is natural there is a very dark crisis inhuman evolution which we see around and within us in the formof our behaviour. We know this also from the remarks madeby the Masters of Wisdom in their teachings; The crisis is asfollows :-When once there is the origin of the individual mind itinaugurates individual activity that is bound to be a bit differentfrom the activity of nature. As a result, we the human beingscreate a reactive nature on the lower planes .of consciousness.Then it stands an inevitable duty of ours to neutralise this reactivenature and to sublimate it into the active nature of humanexistence. An attempt is to be made by everyone when it isnecessary. It means when one feels the necessity. The timecomes and everyone feels his own necessity. Conversely, when
Lesson - 1 9everyone feels his own necessity it is time for him. Until theattempt is made the human being lives on the individual planetrying to find out how he is different from others. When oncethe attempt is made it is time to practise Yoga. It is to be madeuntil we get at the right path which is possibly a single path foreveryone. There are no two right paths just as there are notwo centres to a circle.The path is known by different names by people living indifferent places through different centuries. Languages differ,civilizations differ and expressions differ. (Hence the birth ofmany names denoting the same Path) When people from differentplaces meet, they feel the difficulty with the different termssometimes. They have to grow aware of a closer understandingand a proper equating of the terms so that the experience isrecognized precisely. After passing through all these difficulties,it is necessary for us to find a common text-book which is ofuniversal values. Then we should learn the terminology of thatbook. Then we will be able to have communion on the truthlevels.Luckily we have two books of that type : Patanjali YogaSutras and the Bhagavadgita. The same terminology, almost,is used in the two books. The words, Yoga, Chitta, Prana etc.are used commonly in the two books to offer the same import.Patanjali’s book contains Practical instructions to follow andreach perfection in the training. The Bhagavadgita, besides offersus the path to externalise the higher self through the lower vehiclesof man, and to live a life of those higher values. It points outthat our life should be an expression, an utterance andexternalisation of the soul-light in terms of our words, thoughtsand actions. So we find that the Bhagavadgita supplements theinformation given in the Book of Patanjali. But as far as thepractical instructions are concerned, Patanjali gives us a clearer,
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