Selective pressure
Madhvacarya
of active components such as the toxins that have diversified during
hundreds of millions of years under selective pressure
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This statement above from the article at the Web address below,
discusses the chemical lab of nature in the body of scorpions. Science
in the line of Darwin attributes current chemicals in the body of
scorpions to an evolutionary achievement spanning millions of years of
nature’s honing in on what to do to kill the scorpion’s enemies and
prey.
What has this to do with yoga or meditation?
Well it is this: that certain tendencies in the psyche were honed
after billions of years of surviving in material nature by various
means in various types of bodies, and so now when a spirit decides to
opt out of material nature, it fails to complete that task due to the
persistence of these stubborn traits.
But wait if you were born in the West and if your parents were
religion-savvy, you must have been saved and so that is not your
worry. And if you were born in the East to religious parents, by now
you must have become some God’s devotee and also saved.
But otherwise then you have to fend for yourself and figure out what
spiritual disease ails you. But unlike the saved and the rescued
devotees, you have to get your spiritual self in order by getting rid
of certain tendencies.
That is the value of the approach of kriya yoga where one has to delve
into the psyche, finds its flaws and defects, get a method for
removing these, and attaining spiritual perfection. Certain tendencies
like the tendency to cheat and outsmart others is very persistent in
human nature.
But like a scorpion one has to get near other human beings to
victimize the persons. That means one has to be an expert at
deception. Once one is able to win the confidence of the person then
one has to fire the stinging barb and it must be infected with
sufficient poison to stun the person.
Religion?
Is this part of religion?
Of course it is. Religion itself is good disguise for a predator.
So in kriya yoga one has the task of realizing oneself as a predator
and desisting from such horrible practices.
Apart from giving religion a bad name, one does oneself great harm and
indefinitely postpones one’s spiritual development in real terms, by
expressing exploitive tendencies under the guise of religious
conversion and what not.
So as science studies the venom of scorpions, a kriya yogi is given
the task of studying the psychic venom for exploitation which is in
the barb of his subtle body.
Lucky are those yogis who get a grip on this.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216163341.htm