Yogic insights into human psychology

By Dr. Alok Pandey — Jul 15, 2021

The field of human relationships is one of the most complex and challenging aspects of human existence. Yet how little do we know about it? It is not a subject we are taught in school. Whatever we learn about it is through the school of nature and by the time we have learnt our lessons it is often too late. These few articles are an attempt to understand this aspect from the yogic standpoint and see what it has to say about it.

By Dr. Alok Pandey — Apr 24, 2021

Our experience, perception and response to life are limited by our state of consciousness. While we invest much time and energy in changing the world around us yoga reveals that the first step to change anything is to change ourselves within. While the change of consciousness has always been considered as the penultimate aim of yoga, the question remains as to how far this change can go. Can it, for example, go as far as creating a new humanity out of the old, a new species perhaps with new faculties and who knows eventually even the transmutation of the body into a new divine body? This article touches upon this aspect of yoga as part of the general spiritual evolution of man.

By Dr. Alok Pandey — Jan 15, 2021

There is often an idea that spiritual life is antagonised to the worldly material life of man. This divide is at times seen merely as an extension of the opposition or so it seems between idealism and practicality. However this is only one side of the story. The other side is that, far from opposing each other the spiritual and the material are two aspects of one Existence and can fulfil rather than cancel each other This article tries to build the bridges between the two.

By Dr. Alok Pandey — Oct 15, 2020

Yoga psychology recognises at least three different modes of nature in its working. These are universal modes and can be seen operating from the atoms and starts to the most complex human beings. It is through one or the other of these modes that human beings ordinarily operate. These are being discussed here.

By Dr. Alok Pandey — Jul 15, 2020

The field of yoga is a fast growing one. Taking advantage of the emerging spiritual evolution in man, there is a growing number of brands through which yoga is being marketed in neat and attractive packages. While all this is being done, is it not important to look at what yoga really is? What is its birthplace? What really makes a process yogic?