Yoga meditation

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

But just as the cell body’s activity depends on the type of material which has been allowed in by the cell membrane, in the same way, the intellect acts as a screening and monitoring device, determining which sorts of influences from the environment should be needed and which ignored; which books should be read, for example, which thoughts imbibed. The intellect chooses, in other words, how the soul is to grow.

Finally, the cell’s nuclelus determines its overall nature through its possession of the genetic material. Its nucleic acid molecules will govern not only its present structure, but also the future generations of cells produced through the cell division. In like manner, the souls’s latent tendencies, or sanskaras, determine how the individual functions and responds to its environment. Of course, the sanskaras are malleable, and the intellect, by causing the mind to produce pure thoughts, can change the ‘genetic code’ of the sanskaras, making it immune, for instance, to the negative pressures of an unhealthy environment. This indeed is one of the benefits of Raja Yoga meditation.