Propensities and Pramá
The subject of discourse is “Propensities and Pramá”. As you know, propensities are of two kinds: introversial(1) propensities or Saḿvrtti and extroversial propensities or Pravrtti. What is propensity (Vrtti)? In the case of introversial propensities, the mind moves towards any spiritual pabulum, any psycho-spiritual pabulum, or in certain cases, any developed psychic pabulum, and the flow of the mind is through different channels of mind and psycho-spiritual body. But the ultimate goal is always spiritual although it may apparently be psycho-spiritual or psychic. The subtler the pabulum, the greater is the elevation of the propensities, as they move towards subtler realms.
In the case of extroversial propensities, the movement of mind is towards crude psychic, psycho-physical, or physical pabula. And the mind or psycho-physical body moves through different channels of crude mind or crude psycho-physical body.
So propensities mean not only physical or psychophysical propensities, but also psychic and psycho-spiritual propensities. But one must remember that in the realm of spirituality, there are no propensities.
In the case of microcosm there are both extroversial and introversial propensities (Pravrtti and Samvrtti), but in the case of Macrocosm, there are only introversial ones, no extroversial propensities. The movement of the propensities in Pravrtti is always extroversial, and as there is nothing outside Macrocosm, there cannot be any extroversial movement at all – the movement is always introversial, every movement is within the Macrocosmic arena. So in the case of Parama Puruśa, there are only introversial propensities. Even this expressed quinquelemental universe is within the periphery of the Macrocosmic structure. That is why those who are not cynical or nihilistic in their attitude towards the world, give the philosophical interpretation of the world as “Saḿvrtti bodhicitta” (“internally projected psychic creation, just like a flower of fig”).
In the case of both microcosm and macrocosm, there are many propensities, but they come mainly under fifty groups, and all of these fifty groups have both introversial and extroversial movements. So fifty is multiplied by two: (fifty introversial and fifty extroversial propensities) = one hundred. And since these one hundred propensities move towards the ten directions(2), so one hundred is multiplied by ten: 100 X 10 = 1000. Thus it is said that the Vrttis or propensities (or emanations, manifestations, or flows of propensities) are one thousand in number, and they are all controlled by the multi-propensive plexus of the human body. And the controlling point of this plexus, when pinnacled, touches Parama Puruśa. That state is the state of perfect psychic equilibrium and equipoise – the state of Nivrtti. Nivrtti is the silver line of demarcation between Pravrtti or extroversial propensities, and Samvrtti, or introversial propensities.
What is Pramá? Pramá is psychic equilibrium – equilibrium in the arena of psychic faculty, and equipoise in the arena of psychic mass. In the final stage of Pramá, when there is absolute equilibrium and equipoise in psychic faculty and mass, then the triangle of forces, the triangle of equilibrium, remains undisturbed. (Pra – má + d́a + t́a suffix = Pramá).
Now, as I have already said, extroversial propensities move towards crude objects, and introversial propensities move towards the Subtlest Entity. As a result of these extroversial propensities, human beings and other living beings maintain their relationship with the earth. Without the existence of extroversial propensities, no living entity can exist properly on earth, and without the existence of introversial propensities, one loses oneʼs all mental faculties; the psychic flow cannot move upward towards subtler levels of existence, and so the mind gradually becomes crudified like stone or iron. All sense of humanity, all refinement and finer sensibilities are smashed into smithereens: the whole human existence is razed to its crudest foundations. That is why those philosophers who propagate materialism in fact mislead human beings towards extroversial propensities and goad them towards crude objects. Is such a state desirable? Certainly not. As there is no scope of Nivrtti, there is no equilibrium or equipoise, human beings gradually identify themselves with crude physicality or matter like stone, soil etc. In philosophical terms this is called the state of Prakrtiliina, i.e., one becomes one with nature.
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Source: Propensities and Pramá
Published in: Subháśita Saḿgraha Part 18
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