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True. "Anything done in Rajas will lead to mishap".
The some serious side effects of using Rajo Guna to drive the practice will transfer anxiety, curiosity, questioning, and fear of missing out from one domain to another domain.
On certain days when feeling tired, I used excessive rajo to push myself to do the yogic practice and I derived mixed results from it.
Both good and bad.
Good Effects:
- Incremental improvements at physical, mental, and spiritual levels.
- Prakriti has let you do one more day of practice and you did not waste it
Bad Effects:
- Fear of missing out practice to drive practice every day will increase the urge to be over vigilante.
- Fear of Missing Out → Over-Vigilant → Over Investigation → Over thinking→ Confused state → Anxiety
- Started with a Higher grade of Rajo but ultimately ended with lower Rajo-Tamo Results
- "Anything done in Rajas will lead to mishap", This proves from time to time correct.
Rajo guna that was used for other external objects now is redirected to Yogic practice, it brought in all passionate energy to the Yogic process too.
Passion (Rajo), Impulsive and Mental rewards system redirected from
- Earlier Intellectual pursuits
- Earlier Material Pursuits
- Earlier Socio-Cultural pursuits
are now redirected to Yogic Pursuits. The yogic pursuits are taking the burnt of this mixed energy.
Since all pursuit doors are closed, the yogic pursuits get a mixed bag of energy and get burns too.
Many times side effects can be so dominant that they destroy all the main effects.
Each door at a time has to be carefully closed, all doors shut at once can make the system confused.
Careful regulation of energy is needed.
How to find the optimal energy grade and quality? The Right Balance?
By Trial & Error: Only by hitting the High and Low, you can find the right balance of the system from time to time. Then, you run the operations at those optimal energy levels.
The right balance can change every day or every week or every year based on several external factors.
It's like an Active Noise Filter, which dynamically filters the noise every second. One-time filtering will not help.
