These things have nothing to do with yoga, let alone the Integral Yoga. They are simply the mind’s ways of dabbling with hidden subliminal parts where truth and falsehood, fact and fantasy, reality and imagination are mixed together. But it appeals to the modern mind especially coming from the Western context that wrongly associates the idea of God with its religion. Hence it doesn’t believe in surrender or the discovery of the Divine Presence within, in the individual soul that feels intense love for the Divine. But the true child within us is not these vital states masquerading as a carefree child like the animal before the mind emerged. It is rather a portion of the Supreme Consciousness and shares something of its discernment of Truth. It is instinctively drawn towards truth and beauty and good, it feels deep and intense love and longing for the Divine everywhere and in everything. It is full of a holy warmth and sweetness. It takes to find it and obviously cannot be done through healing sessions or guided imagery. When we discover the true soul within us then we know not only fragments of our past lives but also their true meaning and significance.
This is not to say that all these hyped up past life regression etc do not work. Plenty of things work especially if we have faith in them. Besides they are an indirect way that Nature is using to open the modern mind to certain deeper truths that go beyond the first material formula of life. But as far as the integral yoga is concerned its mainstay is to grow in sincerity, to detect the false movements and reject them, to aspire for Truth and Light, to depend upon the Divine Mother’s Grace and Love, to surrender oneself and one’s difficulties to Her with faith, trust and confidence that She can and will take us out of every difficulty, to turn the mind away from the illness and the idea of illness itself towards the Divine. This is the road of integral yoga that turns difficulties into opportunities and moves from a health and illness-centered to a truth-centered or Divine-centered approach.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
