Vedic Vision of Consciousness And Yoga

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Tract on Kundalini
2007-09-11 22:08:00
Kundalini is the creative freedom of unity consciousness -- consisting of the union of the three levels of existence viz., unity consciousness, unity in diversity and diversity, i.e. advaita, dvait-advaita, and dvaita.She being the supreme consort of Consciousness emits the entire universe out of her womb, beginning with the power of the Will right up to the gross object of perception. As the goddess presiding over those subjects to the incessant round of transmigration, she creates for the ignorant a world of diversity and illusion, while on the other hand is the bestower of unity-consciousness to those who have overcome ignorance.This vitality which is the inner urge of Consciousness emanates all things that constantly pours out from the heart of Consciousness and resounds within It as the highest form of speech -- paravak.In her supreme form, kundalini is known as para kundalini -- one with integral consciousness as its innate bliss. She is the heart of Consciousness that contain...

Tract on Cognition
2007-09-07 23:42:00
Objects are fabrications of the light of consciousness. Cognitive process involves rise of determinate cognition, which is preceded by the indeterminate.This indeterminate has four stages, viz., tendency to rise, commencement of the process of rising, completion of the process of rising and discharge of its causal function.Ordinarily a perceiver is not conscious of these four stages of his consciousness. Each perceived object is a momentary collocation of a number of variegated manifestations.This world of limited manifestations is experienced in two ways, unveiled and partially veiled.In unveiled experience the external objects are perceived or apprehended as merged in the cosmic consciousness and in partially veiled as external objects.In between these two experiences, there are innumerable forms of experiences which are different from one another.In the manifestation, both individual subjects and objects are manifested universally as in the case of aesthetic experience of drama a...

Tract on Prana, Nada and Kundalini
2007-09-03 19:21:00
Currents of Prana are the expression of the vibration of consciousness.The extreme grossness that the currents assume is called susi or cavity and serves as a channel that connects different parts of the body together.The physical gets interlinked in itself as well as with the vital on account of the breath serving as an agent of the vital.The vital derives its power of connectivity from consciousness which is an undivided continuum of being and becoming.The reality in all its formations is interlinked by a contiguous chain whose contiguity rests on the immutable law of the universal force of consciousness constituting the basis of the unity of all things.Discontinuity in the experience of the unity of consciousness is the result of disruption in the flow of this force by factors, mental, vital and physical.These turbulences disturb the unity of consciousness by splitting it up into disparate elements.This marks a transition from continuum to process.The dynamics of consciousness be...
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Tract on Teacher of Yoga
2007-09-02 19:50:00
Teacher of yoga is distinct from the rest of his clan. He needs to be potent enough to strike at the root of consciousness.He needs to be gracious towards all indiscriminately. It depends on the receptivity of the person concerned whether the guru’s shower of grace benefits him or not.He acts as the supervisor and guide of the student in determining the course and direction of the flow of the student’s consciousness towards the particular object after it is withdrawn from diffusion.He is one who removes the ignorance of his disciple by teaching him the true nature of reality and revealing to him the pervasive oneness of consciousness.This he accomplishes mostly via a particular mantra imparted to the disciple for being kept burning, as it were, constantly in the psychic horizon of him.The right teacher is he who himself has realised the Ultimate Reality; anyone lesser than that does not deserve the title.An unworthy teacher is not only unable to raise the seeker to higher levels...
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Tract on Detachment
2007-08-31 13:54:00
Senses tend to move outward since they draw their food from outside.Manas follows the senses in their involvement with their respective objects while Buddhi follows the indications of manas.The organs of senses suffer constantly a conflict between joy and sadness and vice versa, lust and detachment and vice versa. Opposites are always in conflict.The yogin does not get himself entangled in the conflict, but remains relaxed during their risings and becomes a witness to this war. He does not permit his consciousness to waver on either of the sides.Attachment to objects of senses, manas and buddhi is the main obstruction on the path of Yoga.Before understanding how one can become detached, it is essential to understand the functioning of the mind.Mind is somewhat antithetical in its behaviour inasmuch as the more we seek to make it detach itself from a particular object, the more it seeks to cling to the same.Accordingly, one may get more and more deeply engrossed in attachment while s...

Tract on Space and Time
2007-08-30 08:50:00
Time is a formulation of Consciousness.There are two ranges of Consciousness, the Temporal and the Non-Temporal.Aditi, the infinite Creatrix, is the consciousness responsible for bringing the non-temporal to the range of the temporal.The universe is her wheel rolling on the path of time so as to serialise the manifestation of consciousness in temporal succession.This serialisation of the unmanifest into the manifest is a shift from being to becoming.The creative dynamism of consciousness, thus, assumes the form of energy in action in the world outside.Thus Consciousness projects its content diversely on the screen of the universal canvas owing to its tendency of creative manifestation.It creates the diversity of manifestations, giving rise to time through serialisation.Time and Diversity are two sides of the same coin. Time is marked by succession of events while the diversity is created through the operation of the tool of succession on the canvas of space.Due to this sort of relat...
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