sandeyeYoga Styles: Samrambha-Yoga
August 14th 2009 14:34
Samrambha is a Jain word meaning groundwork - the collecting and preparing for something. It is a type of Yoga involving spiritual devotion that can be summed up in the Sufi proverb. "You can meditate for fifteen years and get one inch closer to God; or you can be really angry and be with Him instantly."
Samrambha-Yoga is the practice of a very old, barely-known spiritual path entitled the 'path of wrath'. Scriptures are known to mention Samrambha Yoga as a special path reserved only for those whose swiftest passage to the realization of God lies in the fierce and strong negative emotions such as anger and hatred. It was originally said to be reserved only for the Asuras, but is now also a Yogic pathway in use by those karmicaly aligned to its practice - I.e. those people with strong anger or hatred for whom a connection to the divine becomes an impatient desperate requirement. It may offer a faster method of reaching communication with God than other Yogic paths such as karma, bhakti, or jnana, because of the strength of the focused emotion. For some of us, hatred or anger can focus the concentrated mind far more intensely than love, and it therefore turns into devotion when directed to God due to impatience with feelings of separation from divinity.
Swami Siddhinathananda of the Ramakrishna Mission emphasizes that this path of wrath is only for those whose karma forces it upon them. He quotes Narada: “I am firmly of the opinion that man cannot attain at-one-ment with God so surely and speedily through the path of love as through the path of wrath.” and then continues 'The emotion of anger is more intense and constant than that of love. The Gopis attained Krishna through lust, Kamsa through fear, Sisupala through hate, the Vrishnas through devotion. Anger of God or anger against God ultimately confers supreme blessings.'
Samrambha-Yoga is the practice of a very old, barely-known spiritual path entitled the 'path of wrath'. Scriptures are known to mention Samrambha Yoga as a special path reserved only for those whose swiftest passage to the realization of God lies in the fierce and strong negative emotions such as anger and hatred. It was originally said to be reserved only for the Asuras, but is now also a Yogic pathway in use by those karmicaly aligned to its practice - I.e. those people with strong anger or hatred for whom a connection to the divine becomes an impatient desperate requirement. It may offer a faster method of reaching communication with God than other Yogic paths such as karma, bhakti, or jnana, because of the strength of the focused emotion. For some of us, hatred or anger can focus the concentrated mind far more intensely than love, and it therefore turns into devotion when directed to God due to impatience with feelings of separation from divinity.
Swami Siddhinathananda of the Ramakrishna Mission emphasizes that this path of wrath is only for those whose karma forces it upon them. He quotes Narada: “I am firmly of the opinion that man cannot attain at-one-ment with God so surely and speedily through the path of love as through the path of wrath.” and then continues 'The emotion of anger is more intense and constant than that of love. The Gopis attained Krishna through lust, Kamsa through fear, Sisupala through hate, the Vrishnas through devotion. Anger of God or anger against God ultimately confers supreme blessings.'
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