Yogi as Ape-Man

Currently, sometimes I attend an astral ashram school during the night. This is managed by Srila Yogeshwarananda. On the night of March 4, 2016, the place was daylight in the astral surrounds. His topic was that the evolution of the core-self should proceed just like the evolution of material forms proceeded automatically.

On the high end of yoga practice, it is a matter of the core-self and the adjuncts in the psyche, in a big shootout where the core-self has to wound or be assailed by the adjuncts which sometimes are at odds with each other, in alliance to bring down the core-self.

To avoid being beaten to a pulp, the core-self, has traditionally cowered under the adjuncts or cowered down hiding when the wars break out among the adjuncts. To avoid being shamed, the core-self has walked around on its tippy toes in the jungle of the mind, looking up only to see whatever was displayed as thoughts or ideas to it by the intellect analytical orb.

Srila Yogesh feels that at some point this observing self should stand up, straighten its spine, pick up a stout piece of timber and dare any of the adjuncts to force it back down to being a scurrying little rodent on the mento-emotional jungle floor.

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Some students, hearing this made the effort to stand erect in the mind. They were like the missing link between ape and man in the evolutionary cycle. Despite faith in the guru, they immediately cower back down to being scared quadrupeds because of being deadly afraid of the adjuncts.

What will it take to convert them into valiant warriors? As great a person as Arjuna was afraid of the adjuncts and cowered down in abject fear when he was in the presence of Krishna on the physical battlefield of Kurukshetra, where mentally he was overpowered by his psyche’s adjuncts.

What will it take to stand with spine erect as top predator in the psychic body?