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A Discussion of gods
is written as a textbook of yoga. Květoslav Minařík
provides here detailed information on various types of
yoga and in the last one, the “integral yoga“ he adapts
them to the European way of life and thinking. The
problem of the spiritual development is solved here
mainly by moral transformation, based on feelings
produced and intentionally maintained by will. Only on
these he later bases the meditaion, concentration and
breathing practices.
Section one – Physiological, psychological and karmic
conditions for attaining the unity of the individual
existence with the absolute – deals with, for
example, questions of the types of the emotional
experience and the paths to freedom, psychological and
parapsychological bases of yoga, the issues of karma,
goodness, depersonalisation etc.;
the content of the second section is already summarised
by the title: On special yogas and on the integral
yoga.
From the introduction:
Let the reader exert themself to understand that they
are, in the first place, interested to live happily.
This is a question of a simple and real (emotional)
living, and not a question of a spiritual development,
how they are trying to convince themselves or how they
let others convince them. – A yogi must not lie to
himself or herself. They have to admit that their being
is subject to the nature and hence they must try to
break free from the dependence on the happening in the
nature by approptiate and never failing means. I can
assure them that these are not going to be predominantly
various concentration practices. Rather, it is going to
be a set of good feelings that the yogi enforces in
themselves. – By means of feelings of the appropriate
nature that they enforced in themselves, the desiring
person may get all the way to the world of Brahma. Only
in the world of Brahma, where they can get by the
improving of morality, they may start the true yoga. Let
this be a lesson for everyone on what they have to do to
become mature enough for yoga in its highest aspect.
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