Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 4: The Department of Philosophy, University of Jammu, in collaboration with Shri Aurobindo Gyan Kendra, organised a public lecture on “Aspiration, Rejection and Surrender: Psychological Foundation of Spiritual Transformation in Integral Yoga” today. The lecture was delivered by Dr Vijay Laxmi Rai from the Department of Philosophy.
The programme was conducted under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor, Prof Umesh Rai, who has consistently encouraged the integration of India’s spiritual and philosophical heritage into contemporary academic discourse.
In her lecture, Dr Vijay Laxmi Rai elaborated on the three core psychological processes of Integral Yoga—aspiration, rejection, and surrender—as essential for spiritual transformation. She explained that aspiration represents the soul’s sincere movement towards the divine truth, going beyond desire and intellectual curiosity. Rejection, she said, involves the conscious elimination of ignorance, ego, fear, and habitual tendencies, describing it as a process of awareness and purification rather than suppression.
She further described surrender as the offering of one’s ego, will, and actions to the divine consciousness, adding that these processes together enable transformation without withdrawing from worldly life.
Earlier, Deepti Padmanabhan introduced the objectives of Shri Aurobindo Gyan Kendra, while Prof Jasbir Singh, Head of the Department, highlighted the contemporary relevance of Integral Yoga.
Among those present were Prof Sangeeta Gupta, Prof Namrata Sharma, Prof Anupama Vohra, Prof Sunita Sharma, Prof Dushyant Rai, Prof Shallu Sehgal, Dr Anjuman Ara, Dr Panu Sharma, Dr Ashwin Khushwaha, Dr Koshika Sharma, Dr Suman Verma, Shalini Gupta and Dr Ajai Kumar Mishra.
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