There are various limitations in the Yogic path. The greatest of them is the belief in a personal God or Deity, which is believed to assist and even save one from calamities. The reality is the Yogic doctrine is actually not that of any divinity, but simply of karana (cause) and karya (effect) of our own actions (karma) due to prajnaparadha (mistake of the intellect) by accumulating rajas (passion and egotism) and tamas (ignorance and cloudiness) in the mental channels, which block sattvas (purity and truth) and hence obscure true vivekagni (the fire of discrimination representing mental metabolism). When this occurs, it creates issues in the mind (mental toxins, which are undigested), malabsorption of impressions and causes us to act wrongly and hence undergo duhkha (suffering) as a result. There is no deity with a hand in any of this, but our own Self-responsibility alone that is at play. We are the makers and masters of our own destined future (prarabdha) for the future lives, which we can also change by awakening more sattvas (purity) in the mind and sharpening our vivekagni or mental metabolism. So-called destiny or future is rigid only if we allow our lives to go on without changing past-impressions (samskaras). To the Yogi, then, a fixed destiny is transient and a fools paradise; it can be changed at any time just as the impressions that have brought it about have been our own doing. -Durgadas
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:36:13 +0000
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