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YOGA OUTSIDE THE HINDU UNIVERSE

"You tell me in your letter that you have practised Hatha Yoga; now to practise it safely and with benefit, one must have an orthodox Hindu master, and to have access to a Hindu master, one must be Hindu by birth and belong to a higher caste; moreover, one must fulfil the ritual and moral conditions that Yoga requires. This means that Hindu methods are inaccessible to a non-Hindu, which the orthodox Brahmans know, of course, but which the incompetent Hindus who seek disciples in the West do not know -- or do not want to know. All the same, certain elementary yogic exercises, practised with an intention that is simply physical, and without exaggeration, may be beneficial quasi-incidentally and without there being any guarantee; but this is without interest from the spiritual viewpoint. Generally speaking, one must abstain from all improvisation or experimentation in spirituality; one must submit to the rules a priori assuming that the method to which they belong is accessible to us; which is the case in principle for Islam and Buddhism, but not for Hinduism. [...]
PS. To be able to practise a spiritual method, one must be aware, concretely and not just theoretically, of the difference between the profane and the Sacred; one must therefore fulfil all sorts of conditions, not only intellectual, but also psychological and moral. And nothing can be accomplished without Heaven's blessing."
-- Letters of Frithjof Schuon

Each Goddess is a form of the universal Energy, Conscious-Force or Shakti. But to the logical European mind monotheism, polytheism, pantheism are irreconcilable warring dogmas; oneness, many-ness, all-ness are not and cannot be different but concordant aspects of the eternal Infinite.

A belief in one Divine Being superior to cosmos who is all cosmos and who lives in many forms of godhead, is a hotch-potch, mush, confusion of ideas; for synthesis, intuitive vision, inner experience are not the forte of this strongly external, analytic and logical mind.

The image to the Hindu is a physical symbol and support of the supraphysical; it is a basis for the meeting between the embodied mind and sense of man and the supraphysical power, force or presence which he worships and with which he wishes to communicate.

But the average European has small faith in disembodied entities and, if they are at all, he would put them away into a category apart, another unconnected world, a separate existence. A nexus between the physical and supraphysical is to his view a meaningless subtlety admissible only in imaginative poetry and romance.

The rites, ceremonies, system of cult and worship of Hinduism can only be understood if we remember its fundamental character. It is in the first place a non-dogmatic inclusive religion and would have taken even Islam and Christianity into itself, if they had tolerated the process.

All that it has met on its way it has taken into itself, content if it could put its forms into some valid relation with the truth of the supraphysical worlds and the truth of the Infinite.

Again it has always known in its heart that religion, if it is to be a reality for the mass of men and not only for a few saints and thinkers, must address its appeal to the whole of our being, not only to the suprarational and the rational parts, but to all the others.

The imagination, the emotions, the aesthetic sense, even the very instincts of the half subconscious parts must be taken into the influence. Religion must lead man towards the suprarational, the spiritual truth and it must take the aid of the illumined reason on the way, but it cannot afford to neglect to call Godwards the rest of our complex nature.

And it must take too each man where he stands and spiritualise him through what he can feel and not at once force on him something which he cannot yet grasp as a true and living power.

That is the sense and aim of all those parts of Hinduism which are specially stigmatised as irrational or anti-rational by the positivist intelligence.

- Sri Aurobindo, Renaissance in India.

Remembering Catherine Schuon

Catherine Schuon - Wisdom Tales Press Catherine Schuon (1924–2021) was a gifted artist, editor, and translator, fluent in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. She had been painting and drawing since she was a young child. Catherine also collected children’s books her entire life and she especially enjoyed the children’s ...

"Psychoanalysis has at bottom no other goal than to create a space within oneself in which God's voice can be heard"

- Hermann Hesse

"The essential principles of the various orthodox revelations are identical, a fact which can be discovered by metaphysical pe*******on of dogmas and symbols."

— Leo Schaya (1916-1985) on the Perennial Philosophy

"The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits*."- Huston Smith (1919-2016)
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* Sanskrit- Saṃskāras

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