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The Role of Bhavana in our Spiritual Journey

Creation and spiritual journey  Bhavana is the word in Sanskrit that can be looked at loosely as emotions. In the practice of Yoga and dealing with Yoga as a therapy too, this Bhavana doesn’t find its appropriate place. Even in the Panchakosa model which is quite popular among Yoga practitioners of today, there is no place for Bhavana. Using the intellect as an instrument in Jnana yoga, and prana as an instrument in Raja Yoga, when it comes to Bhavana, it is indeed Bhakti. This seems to be sidelined in the world of Yoga today. Unmanifest absolute consciousness manifests itself and this is how the process of creation begins. This universal consciousness called Brahman becomes the individual consciousness called Jivatma. This is the first development of a boundary from the boundless state of consciousness. Boundless refers to absolute freedom. Paramatma is this freedom that we call Mukhti or Moksha. That Paramatma at the individual level as Jivatma experiences within a boundary. Yes, th