In Yogic science, morality is not duty, but an evolutionary impulse. Just like the impulse for sexuality or for reproducing. It is biological program, which charters its own course, once you set into motion. You do not have to do much to give birth, apart from conceiving a baby. Just that way, Yoga is a program of nature. It is self propagating, self-organizing, self directing. It possesses an inherent teleology; it knows where to go. Once you let it lead you, the yogic moral code will grow inside you and all you have to do is follow it. This is not to say it is easy. Quite the contrary; it will turn your life upside down, change it beyond recognition. When it matures, however, it will show you pleasures and bliss of magnitudes you cannot yet imagine.
Yoga and the yogic moral code is a self sufficient, intelligent feed-back loop. You must simply set it in motion. You just have to activate, catalyse it.
To what end, towards which goal?
The yogic moral framework culminates in a state of ultra-bliss. Ecstasy multiple times of anything you will otherwise experience. Not tame joy or momentary happiness. It is a fierce, overpowering, embodied bliss, not simply a mental sense of well-being. Of course, that will happen too as you rise above human suffering, above the entire human condition. If that end, that goal is not a worthy enough, one wonders what else would be! Immanuel Kant had an inkling that perfect virtue and happiness had a one-to-one relationship, but he was not sure. They do, and this is how.
As the Yogic process urges forward from choice A to B and then to C, the following things happen:
a) Your Identity weakens
b) You lose fears which plagued you, which made up your identity.
c) Your desires change in nature, from outward to inward.
d) Actions emerging from choices A, B and C are the laws of this organic moral code.
e) These are moral actions in the yogic framework.
A’ is an immoral choice/ action in the yogic paradigm because it strengthens the identity from X to X’. You can see that it increases fears and extroverted desires in your system.
A is a moral choice which weakens your identity from from X to X-. It is leads towards introversion of desires, even as it lowers fears in your system.
B is another moral choice which weakens the identity further from X- to X–, lowers fears further. Outward desires continue to decrease.
Choice C weakens the identity still further from X— to X—, fears and outward desires drop even more.
More such choices/ actions for Yogic evolution weaken your identity more and more till they dissolve it. These set of choices make up the true moral code from its birth to maturity. Yoga consummates inside you with the maturity of this Yogic moral code. This ultra-moral system grows from the yogic process and feeds it, both. They are symbiotic; moral growth takes you closer to Yogic union and in turn Yoga serves to mature this moral code. The peak of Yogic union produces ultra-cognition and ultra-sensory bliss. At this peak, the organism of the moral code itself actualises and you experience perfect virtue. Perfect virtue and perfect happiness thus go hand in hand, they are imperative for each other.
Virtue is thus not pre-conceived duty, a set of dogmatic rules that you must follow. True virtue, like true knowledge is not a priori. You cannot plan it in the realm of dry logic and reason. It is a posteriori, arising after the experience of Yoga in the human system.
The moral framework in the yogic process is thus an organic being which is constantly growing. This moral structure is a phenomenon, it is not static or dogmatic. It is universal in its content, yet personal and intimate in its unfolding. Learning about this moral phenomenon will not be convincing enough, you must experience to know. We could lay it out as a code beforehand, but that will be useless. You cannot learn it or blindly follow it like a set of rules.
It is no duty, no obligation. It will not make sense, or be effective by mere intellectual understanding. You will have to feel the moral code take birth in you, you will have to experience it. Learning is not true knowing, true knowing comes from experience. As the yogic moral code grows, samskaras useful for evolution arise from their dormant, unmanifested depths. These samskaras in turn give birth to more of them, until a time when your samskaric content is mostly ‘sattvic’, or rarefied. This means that all your impressions, urges and conscious desires are only for Yogic evolution, for the psycho-biological evolution which is your birthright. Your specie imperative, your human destiny. Unmeasured bliss is at your beck and call. You will it as you effortlessly enter states of ecstatic samadhi. Perfect virtue, ultra-bliss and ultra-knowing, they all come together.
The yogic moral code can be laid out at the outset, but as explained, real understanding happens only a posteriori, after experience. As a matter of fact, even adopting the a posteriori moral conclusions of another consummate yogi will not truly help. There has occurred a phase change, a state change for a person who has achieved Yoga in his system. For a Buddha, Jesus or Mohammed or Krishna, these moral codes are not dogma or rules. They arise naturally for him, they are his natural impulse, his traits, his tendencies. They are his samskaras. However, if you follow them without experiencing the yogic process, they become dogma for you. When you follow them like rules without being intimate with yoga, there is a high chance of misinterpretation, of oversimplification, of minimization. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to modern religion and to a moral framework determined by religion.
As for adherence to this moral code, a consummate Yogi does not force himself to be moral, it is his desire, his urge to be so. He does not restrain from doing wrong, he simply does not desire to. Those unfavourable impulses simply falls away. Moral uprightness becomes a part of his nature, and no outside pressure is necessary to comply.
In its completion, this moral framework will not be relative among people, it will be an absolute structure. Since Yogic consummation is the eventual collective destiny of our species, the end-state for all individuals should be uniform. When the end-state psyche is uniform, the moral framework will be identical.
Morality will lose its relativism.
We could summarize the Yogic moral framework briefly, even as we realise that we truly understand it only after experiencing the Yogic phenomena in our psyche-mind systems.
1. The highest goal of human life is Yogic union. Hence, it has to be the highest priority of human endeavour.
2. All experiences in life are tools for yogic evolution. Suffering is a clue that you are out of alignment with a natural law, or that a new natural law is being taught to you.
3. Samskaras, thoughts, ideas, concepts and actions which lead us towards Yogic evolution are moral. Those that lead us towards yogic devolution are immoral.
4. Thus samskaras, thoughts, ideas, concepts and actions are moral when they:
a) Weaken identity
b) Remove fears
c) Decrease extroverted desires and increase introverted desires.
6. All thoughts, ideas, actions which in totality lead to yogic consummation comprise this organic moral code.
So you see, you cannot invent morality; it is not a matter of creativity and aesthetics. Morality’s purpose is not to maintain and preserve social order and functioning, as it has become today. True morals take birth in your system. You cannot borrow it from parents and society, because that kind of moral code has an ulterior motive, many times far removed from your true welfare. You discover it; it reveals itself to you on the Yogic path. You cannot swallow it like a pill, you cannot follow it like a set of rules. Embark on the Yogic path, and you will know the yogic moral code. It will reveal itself to you by taking birth inside you. Try it out for yourself, walk the path. I bet you will discover this new moral code, among many other hitherto unimaginable things.
A new kind of bliss.
A new kind of intuitive intelligence.
A new kind of life.
Ultra-ethics, Ultra-bliss. Ultra-intuition, Ultra-intellect. An ultra-life.