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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Madhusudan Reddy, Dr. V./English/Integral Yoga Psychology/From Realisation to Application.htm
8. From Realisation to Application
(i) The Long Transition
Since its origination in the times of ancient Greeks,
psychology has undergone several laudable changes in the
West. The long psycho-cultural process was set in motion with the leap from
animal to human status. This new birth of manifest life projected the human
animal into dimensional time and inaugurated the process of conscious
self-awareness. And, in our own times, both scientists and psychologists are
competing with one another to have a dynamic view of the human conditions. They
seem to be shedding old conceptual and instrumental paradigms for new ones to
enable them to new-underst
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9. The Sevenfold Ignorance
It is the growth from a half-animal humanity into a spiritual and supramental being that would be the character of the evolutionary process. It means the passage of the force of consciousness from the mental, vital and physical into the infinite power of the Spirit. To begin with we are ignorant of our source, of the source and support of the universe around us, — the truth of our being and becoming. This, as Sri Aurobindo calls it, is the original ignorance. In addition, we suffer from a constitutional Ignorance that exercises a form of self-restriction to the material-vital existence. With the result, our knowledge is partial and limited,
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Madhusudan Reddy, Dr. V./English/Integral Yoga Psychology/The Many Minds.htm
7. The Many Minds — Towards Truth-Consciousness
(i) The Five Minds
Sri Aurobindo speaks of Five Minds functioning in the
body-consciousness. Ordinarily we are aware of only three of these — the
physical mind, the vital mind and the mental mind. The other two, the psychic
mind and the spiritual mind belong to the domain of the Integral Yoga
Psychologist. It is because of the presence of these latter that man aspires to
transcend his earthly limitations and gain entry into the luminous regions of
liberated intelligence.
The universe is a magical unfoldment, as it were, between two
limits — the superconscient and the Incon-scient — the two levels of
manife
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Madhusudan Reddy, Dr. V./English/Integral Yoga Psychology/Integral Yoga Psychology.htm
5. Integral Yoga Psychology
(i)
Man by his very nature is spiritual. He is a dynamic psyche
ever evolving, always integrating with the universe around him. He is a
self-conscious mode of the infinite and the eternal though at present limited
because of the compulsions of Nature's evolutionary process. He is a dual
expression of both Being and Becoming, and manifests simultaneously the static
and dynamic aspects of Reality. The static truth of his inmost existence — the
impersonal eternal dimension — sanctions and supports, as it were, his creative
nature, the historical dimension. The two dimensions, though distinguishable,
are in fact inseparable.
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Madhusudan Reddy, Dr. V./English/Integral Yoga Psychology/precontent.htm
ISBN 0-941524-92-2
By the same Author:
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of
Evolution
Mankind on the March (The
Movement)
Sapphires of Solitude (Poems)
Celebration Future: The Next
Millennium
Savitri: Epic of the Eternal Meta-History
The University of Tomorrow
Avatarhood and Human
Evolution
Values and Value Theories
Yoga of the Rishis Champaklal: Lion of Light
and Love Nolini-da: A Loving Tribute
7 Studies in Sri Aurobindo
Books edited:
The Flame of Truth
Nolini — Arjuna of Our Age
Education and Society Towards Eternity
(Sri Aurobindo"s Birth Centenary
Volume)
Eternity is
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2. Yoga: The Psychology of Self-Perfection
Yoga is one of the means of knowing man and the workings of cosmic forces through Nature and life. It is the study of the human mind, and of the greater mind expressing itself in all beings and things. It leads to the perception of the divine Intelligence and Will working through individual and cosmic evolution. Yoga is a powerful and perfected method of union with this divine Intelligence and Will. It provides a path of quick and conscious seeking and union with the Divine on one or more planes of our being. While the physical and vital mind looks upon outer things, Yoga penetrates the surface appearances
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3. The Triple Liberation
The world is the self-manifestation of Brahman in the figure of phenomenal consciousness. While Brahman exists in the world to represent Itself in the vital and mental, Life and Mind exist in Brahman in order to progress and discover it in themselves. "Therefore man's importance in the world is that he gives to it that development of consciousness in which its transfiguration by a perfect self-discovery becomes possible. To fulfil God in life is man's manhood. He starts from the animal vitality and its activities, but a divine existence is his objective."7 Brahman is not extra-cosmic, It is supra-cosmic. It embraces and includes the universe
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6. Integral Yoga Psychology vis-a-vis Western Approach to
Personality — Freud, Jung and Adler
(i)
Over the years Western psychology has undergone several
changes. Originally, it was regarded as a science of the soul, but then it
shifted its emphasis and came to be considered as the science of mind, and of
late its main focus
has been mere behaviour. This limits the subject to an
infinitesimally small segment of its vast field. And with the advent and rise of
physical sciences, psychology itself has come to be a natural science.
Psychology today presents a plethora of points of view in regard to the nature
of man; it is in fact a group of
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PART ONE
The Fundamentals
The Fundamentals
1. Man and the Universe: Inseparable Companions on the Journey
The soul of man is a traveller in the totality of the universe, unconscious of its identity with it, and with the all-inclusive and yet transcendent Brahman. A progressive revelation of the omni-truth of the Omnipresent Reality is the meaning and aim of world-existence and human existence. It is this luminous unfoldment, the dawn, that the ancient Rishis looked for, and devoutly worked for. The seers saw its fulfilled perfection as the summit-step of life's endless journey, guided and guarded by the Grace of the omnipotent Sachchidananda, im
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GLOSSARY*
ahamkara: Ego-sense.
ajndna: The operation by which the consciousness
dwells on an image of things so as to govern and possess it in power.
Ananda (ananda): Bliss, delight, beatitude,
spiritual ecstasy.
Annamaya-Kosha (annamaya-kosa): The physical
sheath. annamaya purusa: Soul in body; physical conscious being;
material being. antah-karana: The inner
instrument; mind; mind and vital
as opposed to the body. anumdna: Inference.
asat: Non-Being, Non-Existence, Nothingness; that
which is not manifested and beyond manifestation and is not contained in the
basis of manifestation.
asmitd: Egotism.
Atman (atman): Self; Spirit; the orig