Yoga of Humanity

Stories to coevolve the Avatār

Beyond Epic

At first blush the grand narratives of various civilization cultures are "merely" seen as epic tales, that inspire with timeless values and aspirations.

Yoga Stories

Yoga is typically thought of as a hyper-individualistic ascetic pursuit, and is in fact, a very good first step to clean out the microcosm before attempting to serve society.

Of course, the Internet has made it easy to spread subjective experiences, but since the core of the experience remains the individual, there is another jump needed to transform the collective.

Hence Yoga Stories, as a captivating way of experiencing Yoga at the societal level.

The general idea behind the Yoga of Storytelling is that :

the characters map directly to the structures of the Yoga Mind, and
and activities detailed in such tales map to well-known Yoga processes.

By absorbing these stories with a Yogic lens, a transformation occurs in the psyche, in a most captivating manner - and induces a shared experience in the community.

Because this shared experience is done through cultivating a Yoga Mind this is not the same as being mass-programmed like flocks of sheep.

The collective story from a Yoga lens then becomes enduring, even across cultures, enables to wrap the psyches of large groups around a tale - then no longer is the tale merely subjective but as a shared version of reality, it is now made objective!

Hence, a Sat-Sangha - a collective of a shared experienced Truth.

Avatār Stories

Such Yoga tales are actually Avatār stories.

We first describe the Avatār effect, and then look at various epic Yoga stories, e.g.

the Mahā Avatārs
Samudra Manthan, or the Cosmic Churn
The Cosmic Being, or the whole psychic Universe
Rāmāyana
Bhārat
Avatār of Yoga
Star Beings - to weave the narrative of whole future humanity started in Rishi Sapiens

We could include other story models based on Western approaches to psychoanalysis, e.g. archetypes, but they would have limited value and probably better to do such therapy in a more direct manner.

Darshana

When a Rishi sees & communicates the grand vision of humanity :

in a manner that stems from the Yoga Mind,

which when defended in healthy debates, and
creates a school of ardent students to realize the vision,

it is called a दर्शन Darshana.

When each of us absorbs the Darshana is when we exclaim “Iti-hās - this actually is happening right Now, within me!”

From a psychic perspective, such grand narratives of Humanity :

of course attract ‘mere’ mortals, and also
all manners of psychic Beings show up

in the theater of our collective psyche because they all want to have a role in this life-changing epic.

Eventually all these beings seek the release of Moksha, hence we remember to not get too attached to stories for they eventually end.

These are all mental concepts like props, helpful indeed, but at some point we can also stand perfectly well residing in our own true nature.

Universality

In fact, it can be seen that epics from all of the world's cultures, in one way or another, thanks to the powerful model of the Yoga Mind, can be explained in consistent manner, albeit tuned to their local cultures in which they emerged.

That is, whether they actually originated from a single racial stock or not, the patterns we see are universal across humanity.

These tales are so engaging that they proliferated afar, enacted in auditoriums in the forests and towns, on open stages and inside caves; surely traveling theater companies, as they traversed the land, must have added local embellishments to their tale - the ultimate Yoga adventure reality show!

Because of lack of insight though, such tales have sadly languished as fossilized religious texts, or sanitized academic expositions on ethics or morality, or just inspiring fantasies of human valor.

All ancient cultures are replete with legendary tales but, over time, much has been obscured by the steamroller of hyper-rationalized industrialization, and so these fantastical legends are now considered 'mere' myth, to be seen only in musty museums & old libraries.

Even though such stories seem very different across the globe, views are divided in Western academia as to whether there are universal themes across cultures in these stories, or there is no such universality.

Although individual stories are indeed unique to each culture, for such legends define the very identity of these civilizations, but when we look at the broad themes from the lens of Yoga we shall see that there is strong commonality across the world.

Quite possibly Yoga's broad appeal owes much to such universal themes behind the legends.

The instilling of an entire portfolio of psychic intelligences into society, and of course surfacing the hidden viruses to be cleansed in the light, creates massive changes in societal mindset - just through Yoga Stories!

However, these stories are organized in a particular way:

Implications

Conflict Free Growth

With our detailed perspective on Avatār manifestation, its power can be brought sustainably to bear and without conflict for enduring accomplishments of the highest of ideals.

Noble visions aside though, we could also easily be led astray by groupthink and particularly in our modern world where we throng in online filter bubbles that are ideal echo chambers for pernicious propaganda.

Hence the techniques of Yoga for spotting any errors of perception that could lead to delusionary, hence unsustainable, thinking.

Grand Ideals

Many types of Avatārs are described in different stories that serve such collective Ideals, for example, to:

spread wealth throughout society we manifest the Rāma or the Lakshmi Avatār,
reboot civilization after severe decline of Dharma we manifest the Krishna Avatār, or
save Earth from the ravages of modernization we manifest Gaia herself.

Any well-chosen mental construct can eventually become an Avatār scale grand idea, for example a whole nation or an enduring corporation even, with their own grand narratives come to life.

Organizations

As an example, when the leaders of any organization, such as a corporation, embody its ideals with complete coherence then the power of their presence kicks in and flows through to energize the rest of the enterprise.

All members of the organization are imbued with clarity of vision, steadfast purpose, and even their leader as an Avātar’s little tricks & nuances of navigating the world of competitive collaboration.

This is what happens in all highly motivated organizations, but at times conflict arises because grand vision is not sustainable. Witness so many failures in high-flying corporations where the leader is deified as God - except until catastrophically proved mortal, bankruptcy ensues, and workers are let go!

National Ideals

When looked at through this powerful lens, it is clear that even nation-states can be re-energized by manifesting an Avatār and creating appropriate grand narratives.

The Avatār approach is to embody a Conscious Being with all the ideal characteristics that inspire the entire collective to advance their Natural Intelligence.

But oops, careful not to conceive of this Conscious Being as

some kind of God whose narrative is under control by some fossilized religious institution, or
based on some flawed founding father whose gory personal details have been swept under the carpet, in the fallow interests of forced conformity to nationalism.

The Avatār Effect

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