A study (and mapping) of how the Homeopathy is near to yoga. How the two approaches can simultaneously contribute to well-being of an individual.

1. How is Homeopathy
near toYoga?
Dhaval Dalal
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2. A book for layman
• Chapter 8 - Concept ofVital Force
• Dr. Hahnemann’s description - “In
healthy condition of man the spirit like
vital force that animates the material
body, rules the unbound sway and retain
all the parts of the organism in
admirable harmonious vital operations
as regards both sensations and functions
so that our indwelling reasoned gifted
mind can employ this living healthy
instrument for the higher purpose of
our existence.”

3. A book for layman
• Chapter 8 - Concept ofVital Force
• Dr. Hahnemann’s description - “In
healthy condition of man the spirit like
vital force that animates the material
body, rules the unbound sway and retain
all the parts of the organism in
admirable harmonious vital operations
as regards both sensations and functions
so that our indwelling reasoned gifted
mind can employ this living healthy
instrument for the higher purpose of
our existence.”
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Description
appears like a
yogic model

4. • Uninterrupted flow of vital energy
• Disturbance in vital force causes
mal-development.
• Disease is the dynamic
expression of disturbed vital
force.
Chapter 8
Concept of Vital Force

5. • Uninterrupted flow of vital energy
• Disturbance in vital force causes
mal-development.
• Disease is the dynamic
expression of disturbed vital
force.
Chapter 8
Concept of Vital Force
Looks quite like the
yogic Pranic force.
Let me find out what
Sri Aurobindo has to
say on this….

6. http://www.namahjournal.com

7. Modern Psychology &Yoga

8. Modern Psychology &Yoga
• Modern Western Psychology lumps all emotions,
instincts, consciousness into what is called the “mind”.

9. Modern Psychology &Yoga
• Modern Western Psychology lumps all emotions,
instincts, consciousness into what is called the “mind”.
• However, the psychology ofYoga looks upon man’s
subjective nature as a composite of parts. Each part has
its own awareness or consciousness and thus has its
own characteristic attitudes.

10. Modern Psychology &Yoga
• Modern Western Psychology lumps all emotions,
instincts, consciousness into what is called the “mind”.
• However, the psychology ofYoga looks upon man’s
subjective nature as a composite of parts. Each part has
its own awareness or consciousness and thus has its
own characteristic attitudes.
• At a broad level there are 2 divisions in human being
• the outer being - constituting the personality and

11. Modern Psychology &Yoga
• Modern Western Psychology lumps all emotions,
instincts, consciousness into what is called the “mind”.
• However, the psychology ofYoga looks upon man’s
subjective nature as a composite of parts. Each part has
its own awareness or consciousness and thus has its
own characteristic attitudes.
• At a broad level there are 2 divisions in human being
• the outer being - constituting the personality and
• the inner being - the actual person using the
outer mask.
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12. 3 Parts of Outer Being
• Physical Sheath or अन्नमयकोश
(AnnamayaKosha)
• Vital Sheath or प्राणमयकोश (PraanmayaKosha)
• Mental Sheath or मनोमयकोश
(ManomayaKosha)

13. Physical Sheath - अन्नमयकोश
• Refers to the gross body or स्थूल शरीर
(Sthula Sharira).
• The food that we eat, after sometime, it
becomes a part of the body…in other
words, this physical body is built by
accumulation of food
• Hence the name AnnamayaKosha
(अन्नमयकोश) or the food body.

14. Mental Sheath - मनोमयकोश
• This part of the being has to do with
thoughts and ideas, facts and knowledge.
• Medically, mind and brain are equated and
consciousness is the outcome of brain
activity.
• According toYogic perspective the mind
and brain are different.
• Sri Aurobindo says - “the brain is not the
seat of thinking. It is the mind that thinks…
the brain is only a communicating
channel…”

15. Vital Sheath - प्राणमयकोश
• Between the physical and the mental, is the vital
sheath or “Pranic Body”. The word vital comes
from the latin word - vita or “life”.
• Just as there are nerves in the physical body, a
parallel structure of Nadis (नाडी) or nerve-
channels (energy pathways) exist in the Subtle or
Pranic body. We can neither see these Nadis with
physical eyes, nor with electron microscope.
• Life-force (Pranic Energy) - is the means of
existence in the material body.
• It is like the electricity that powers things.
Without this power, neither the physical can be
animated, nor the mental can function and its
fullest development possible.

16. Physical Consciousness
• Generally, body is looked upon something that
is mechanical, but the psychology of yoga
shows that body is has its own characteristic
consciousness and intelligence.
• Physical consciousness as compared to the
mental consciousness, is seen relatively inert,
obscure, narrow or limited, and automatic or
mechanical in its functionings.
• Attitudes that are characterised by
rigidity, narrowness, conservatism,
slowness to change, indifference or
boredom and habitual mode of
action and reaction are related to the
physical part of our being.

17. Vital Consciousness
• Vital Sheath is made up of Life-force or Life-
energies, sensations like pleasure, pain, etc…,
instincts and impulses like anger, fear, lust
etc…, desires, feelings and emotions.
• Attitudes of vital consciousness is
characterised by likes and dislikes,
the search for pleasure and
enjoyment, avoidance of pain and
discomfort, desire to posses and
accumulate, perpetual variety and
change, attachment and repulsion,
ambitiousness, aggression, fear and
impulsiveness.

18. Mental Consciousness
• When mental consciousness is pre-
dominant in an individual, the attitudes
of the individual are characterised by
rational outlook and are based on
moral and intellectual principles.
• The mental is guided by what accords with
reason and is deemed to be true or good.

19. • These are the 3 levels at which the psychology of yoga
concerns itself with.
• In homeopathy too, to arrive at patient personality, when a
homeopath takes the case, they study the patient by looking at
the
• Physicals
• Emotional and behavioural traits,
• Mental patterns etc…
Homeopathy &
Attitudes of Consciousness

20. Consciousness Attitudes
Physical
• Rigidity
• Narrowness
• Conservatism
• Slowness to change
• Indifference or boredom
• Habitual mode of action and reaction
Vital
• Likes and Dislikes
• Search for Pleasure and Enjoyment
• Avoidance of Pain and Discomfort
• PerpetualVariety and Change
• Desire to Possess and Accumulation
• Attachment and Repulsion
• Aggression
• Fear
• Impulsiveness
Mental
• Rational Outlook - In accordance with
Reason
• Intellectual Principles govern the attitude
Miasms Attitudes
Psoratic
• Hyper-sensitive
• Anxious
• Fearsome
Sycotic
• Fixed Ideas
• Guilt Complex
• Violent Tendencies
Syphilitic
• Dull
• Morose
• Stubborn
• Anger
• Rage
• Violent Tendencies
Mapping Homeopathic Miasms &
Attitudes of Consciousness

21. Yogic Methods
• Hathayoga selects body and the vital functionings as its
instruments. It’s concern is with the gross body.
• Rajayoga selects mental being as it lever-power. It’s concern is
with the subtle body.
• The triple path of Works, Love and Knowledge uses some part
of mental being.

22. Hathayoga
• Body is the key and uses it as a point of departure to reach the Ultimate
• But it does not view the body with the eye of an anatomist or
physiologist.
• According to Sri Aurobindo it aims at conquest of body and Life-force
(Prana).
• It achieves this using 2 methods and 3 principles of practice.

23. Two Primary Methods of
Hathayoga
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Habituate the body to certain
attitudes of Immobility.
Deal directly with the subtler vital
parts, the nervous system.
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Aasanas Pranayamas

24. The 2 aims of Aasanas
https://www.sivananda.org/teachings/asana/12-basic-asanas.html
• To get the body rid of its restlessness -
establish control by physical
immobility
• To force the body to hold the Pranic
energy instead of squandering or
dissipating it - develops power by
immobility.

25. Pranayamas
• They do the regulated direction and
arrestation of vital force in the body.
• It does this by control of breath.
• Equality of inhalation and exhalation and
its other diverse rhythmic patterns
• Inholding and outholding the breath and
includes bandhas or locks.
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26. The 2 aims of Pranayamas
• To purify the nervous system, to
circulate the life-energy through all the
nadis without obstruction, disorder or
irregularity,
• To acquire complete control of its
functionings. This is done so that the
mind and soul may not be subject to the
body or vital or their combined
limitations.
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27. 3 Principles of Practice

28. 3 Principles of Practice
Purification
1. Purification - Removal of all
aberrations, disorders, obstructions
brought about by the mixed and irregular
action of the energy in our physical, moral
and mental system.

29. 3 Principles of Practice
Purification
Concentration
1. Purification - Removal of all
aberrations, disorders, obstructions
brought about by the mixed and irregular
action of the energy in our physical, moral
and mental system.
2. Concentration - Bringing to its full
intensity - the mastered and self-directed
employment of that vital energy.

30. 3 Principles of Practice
3. Liberation - release our being from
the painful knots of individualised energy in
a limited play, so that union with Supreme
is achieved.
Purification
Concentration
Liberation
1. Purification - Removal of all
aberrations, disorders, obstructions
brought about by the mixed and irregular
action of the energy in our physical, moral
and mental system.
2. Concentration - Bringing to its full
intensity - the mastered and self-directed
employment of that vital energy.

31. Homeopathy and Hathayoga
Homeopathy Hathayoga
Effectuation onVital Body and then
changes seen on the Physical body
Effectuations on Physical andVital Body
Medicinal Remedy removes obstructions
and re-establishes vital energy balance in
the system
Asanas and Pranayamas remove obstructions,
disorders and re-balance vital energy in the
system
Gathers insights from individual’s
personality as a window to peep within
and then select remedy based on law of
similars.
There is no such need to gather such insights.
Beneficial to whoever practices.
Restores normalcy to that what was
before the disease.
Goes beyond restoring vital force balance,
generating infinite pranic energy that the
system can hold and imparts excellent physical
health and youthfulness.
Achieves frictionless alignment of vital and
physical bodies, thus aids self-transformation
with expansion of awareness.
Homeopathy and Hatha-Yoga complement each other and can be used
simultaneously.

32. Mantra
• मंत्र = मन (man - root sound) + त्र (tra - suffix)
• मन = to think, to perceive, to understand, to
comprehend, to contemplate, to meditate.
• त्र = Instrument.The suffix tra at the end of
word Mantra is a suffix added in the sense of
instrumentality.
• Therefore, मंत्र = Instrument of contemplation,
meditation, thinking, comprehension and
perception.
INTRODUCTION PAGE 1
THE two Sanskrit works here translated---Ṣat-cakra-nirūpaṇa (" Description of the Six Centres, or Cakras") and
Pādukāpañcaka (" Fivefold footstool ")-deal with a particular form of Tantrik Yoga named Kuṇḍalinī -Yoga or, as some
works call it, Bhūta-śuddhi, These names refer to the Kuṇḍalinī-Śakti, or Supreme Power in the human body by the
arousing of which the Yoga is achieved, and to the purification of the Elements of the body (Bhūta-śuddhi) which takesImage Source:
The Serpent Power Complete
http://bhagavangitausa.com

33. Mantrayoga
• Like aasanas (bring the power of immobility in the
material body), mantras arrests the restlessness of
the mind, making it still, concentrated and reflective.
• They put mind into a state of meditativeness. This
is Mantrayoga.
• All of these ultimately affect the circulation of
Prana.
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• A mind that is noisy, disturbed, critical, reactive or simply
addicted to sensory sources of stimulation and
entertainment, it squanders and dissipates a lot of vital
energy. It generates lot of negative thought and emotional patterns of
fear, perverted desires, hatred etc… in the mental field.

34. Mantrayoga
• Mantrayoga can be used to directVital
Force or Prana to wherever it is
needed in us.
• All yogic methods Hathayoga,
Bhaktiyoga etc… use Mantrayoga as a
supplementary practice to prepare the
mind for deeper awareness.
• Through its positive and constructive
vibrations, Mantrayoga integrates the
mind into growing vastness and
consciousness.
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35. References
• Looking from Within - A seeker’s Guide to Attitudes for Mastery and
Inner Growth. Ed.A. S. Dalal
• Homeopathy - The Science and Art of Healing - Dr. Sharad Shah
• The Synthesis ofYoga - Chapter XXVII - Hathayoga pp 506-513 Sri
Aurobindo
• MantraYoga and Primal Sounds - Dr. David Frawley (Pt.Vamadeva
Shastri)
• NAMAH Journal,Vol. 20, Issue 2, Sri Aurobindo Society
• Three Truths of Well-Being - Sadhguru