Wisdom Teachings: The Path Of Synthesis

🌹 WISDOM TEACHINGS 🌹

🌴 THE PATH OF SYNTHESIS 🌴

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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UNITY AND SYNTHESIS

If we bring together the individual petals of a flower and tie them on with a string in the form of a flower, the parts form a unity. If however we observe a flower without plucking it, the petals of the flower are already in oneness. Something constructed is a unity, something created by Nature has come into being on account of Synthesis. Synthesis is the background of every existence. The awareness of the Synthesis of all planes of consciousness, which can be experienced by man, is called in Sanskrit Yoga. So Yoga does not mean union or unity, but Synthesis.

The practice of Yoga is for reaching the awareness of Synthesis. He who is attracted by this practice gets his impetus from the energy of Synthesis, no matter with which name it is called. Since "Yoga" means Synthesis, there can be only the one Yoga; if it were more, the many would have to be false yogas. But just like the flower has its plurality of petals, there are branches and subdivisions in the Yoga Path, the classical kinds of Yoga. As long as you understand them as branches, you are not lost in the anatomy of a part, but keep the consciousness of the whole.

FIERY EXISTENCE

According to the science of spirituality the Entire creation is an expression of energy, of a fire of Existence expressing itself in different flames. The flames seem to be many, but are One in their essence.

It is a fiery Synthesis, whose awareness is called in the East Agni Yoga or Yoga of Fire. Three basic forms of fire are described in the scriptures; in more recent wisdom teachings they are called Electrical or Cosmic Fire, Solar or Soul Fire, and Fire by Friction. Our mind is one of the flames blown down from a subtler to the grosser and grosser existence, until in the dense planes we experience resistance and develop consciousness through our sensations. Through the contact of the mind with the body we begin to feel the existence of our bodies. In the imbalances and problems of our personality lives we experience the burning of the Fire by Friction.

Fire purifies, it burns all you give to it to ashes. On the evolutionary path, back from multiplicity to the original Fire of Existence, our thought, speech and action are purged in a purification process through fiery aspiration. The age-old Path of Yoga teaches to neutralise the reactions of the mind and the senses towards objectivity to reach balance and poise. The practice of Yoga is a daily purification process, it keeps the mind clean and pure, so that it can reflect Truth. Thus the individual consciousness can withdraw into the background of a greater consciousness.

Yoga however is nothing out of touch, but is lived in daily life.  Yoga is not a part time job, but a way of life. To read about Yoga doesnt help at all, there should be an interest in practising. It is a conscious decision to take to the path and not to stop until the awareness of Synthesis is reached.

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