The trilogy of books – Controlling the Mind of a Criminal – The Yogic Way, The Sixth Force in Nature, and Misgoverned Kashmir – converge on one essential insight: that collective conflict is not only a matter of external strategy but stems from inner conflict and inner imbalance. Societies must educate their young not just in modern tools and technologies or geopolitics but in the psychology of conflict, the dynamics of the mind (vrittis), and the tools of yogic regulation (asana, pranayama, dhyana). The vritti is simply the modification of the mind according to Patañjali’s Yoga?Sutra definition: “when the mind becomes transparent due to reduction of the vritis; the nature of its object gets reflected through it.” Let us be under no illusion that this will be easy.
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Published at: 2025-11-15 19:00:33
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