Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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principles are based totally on the vital force which is responsible for life, disease and death. In sections 9 to 12 and 16 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann has written:
"In the healthy condition of man the spiritual, vital force (autocracy), the dynamism that animates the material body (organism) rules with unbounded sway, and retains all the parts of the organism in admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as regards both sensations and functions, so that our indwelling, reason-gifted mind can freely employ this living, healthy instrument for the higher purpose of our existence. The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation." (s.9)
"When a person falls ill, it is only this spiritual, self-acting, vital force, everywhere present in his organism, that is primarily deranged by the dynamic influences upon it of a morbific agent, inimical to life. It is only the vital force, deranged to such an abnormal state, that can furnish the organism with its disagreeable sensation, and incline it to the irregular processes which we call disease. For, as a power invisible in itself, and only recognizable by its effects on the organism, its morbid derangement only makes itself known by the manifestation of disease in the sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the senses of the observer and physician, that is, by morbid symptoms, and in no other way can it make itself known." (s. 10-12)
"It is the morbidity-affected vital force alone that produces disease. Our vital force, as a spirit-like dynamism, cannot be attacked and affected by injurious influences in the healthy organism caused by the external, inimical forces that disturb the harmonious play of life, other than in a spirit-like way. In like manner, all such morbid derangements (diseases) cannot be removed from it by the physician in any other way than by the spirit-like alternative power of the serviceable medicines acting upon our spirit-like vital force, which perceives them through the medium of the sentient faculty of the nerves everywhere present in the organism." (s. 16)
From this statement it can be seen that homeopathy believes thoroughly in the vital force theory. This vital force or life force is similar to the style of a song. It is the individual. If the individual is a song, the vital force is the style. The words and sentences are like the visible, material organs of the body.
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