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==Fate==
The Indian explanation of fate is Karma. We ourselves are our own fate through our actions, but the fate created by us binds us; for what we have sown, we must reap in this life or another. Still we are creating new fate for the future even while undergoing old fate from the past in the present. That gives a meaning to our will and action and does not, as European critics wrongly believe, ...constitute a rigid and sterilising fatalism. But again our will and action can often annul or modify even the past Karma, it is only certain strong effects, called ''utkaṭa karma'', that are non-modifiable. Here too the achievement of the spiritual consciousness and life is supposed to annul or give the power to annul Karma. For we enter into union with the Will Divine, cosmic or transcendent, which can annul what it had sanctioned for certain conditions, new-create what it had created; the narrow fixed lines disappear, there is a more plastic freedom and wideness. Neither Karma nor Astrology therefore points to a rigid and for ever immutable fate. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/fate-free-will-and-prediction#p26</ref>
Fate is God‘s foreknowledge outside Space and Time of all that in Space and Time shall yet happen; what He has foreseen, Power and Necessity work out by the conflict of forces.
2) It may be due to the passivity taking the form of inertia—inertia brings the consciousness down towards the ordinary physical level which is soon fatigued and prone to tamas. The cure here is to get back into the true consciousness and to rest there, not in inertia.
3) It may be due to mere overstrain of the body—not giving it enough sleep or repose. The body is the support of the yoga, but its energy is not inexhaustible and needs to be husbanded; it can be kept up by drawing on the universal vital Force but that reinforcement too has its limits. A certain moderation is needed even in the eagerness for progress—moderation, not indifference or indolence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/24/the-triple-transformation-psychic-spiritual-supramental-iii#p90,p91,p92,p93</ref>
==Forehead Centre==
In the forehead between the eyes but a little above is the ''ājñācakra'', the centre of the inner will, also of the inner vision, the dynamic mind, etc. (This is not the ordinary outer mental will and sight, but something more powerful, belonging to the inner being.) When this centre opens and the Force there is active, then there is the opening of a greater will, power of decision, formation, effectiveness, beyond what the ordinary mind can achieve.
The centre of vision is between the eyebrows in the centre of the forehead. When it opens one gets the inner vision, sees the inner forms and images of things and people and begins to understand things and people from within and not only from outside, develops a power of will which also acts in the inner (yogic) way on things and people etc. Its opening is often the beginning of the yogic as opposed to the ordinary mental consciousness.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/22/planes-and-parts-of-the-being-xiii#p36,p37</ref>
==Foundation in Yoga==
It is not possible to make a foundation in yoga if the mind is restless. The things that have first thing needed is quiet in the mind. Also to merge the personal consciousness is not the first aim of the yoga: the first aim is to open it to be established are a higher spiritual consciousness and for this also a quiet mind is the first need.<ref>http: ''brahmacarya'', complete sex//incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/the-foundation-of-sadhana-i#p1</ref> Peace and purity; ''śamaḥ'', quiet of the consciousness are the very foundation of the necessary change in the nature. Equanimity and harmony peace in all conditions in all parts of the being, its forces maintained but controlled, harmonised, disciplined; ''satyam'', truth and sincerity in is the whole nature; ''praśāntiḥ'', a general state first foundation of peace the Yogic status. Either Light (bringing with it knowledge) or Force (bringing strength and calm; ''ātmasamyama'', the power dynamism of many kinds) or Ananda (bringing love and habit joy of existence) can come next according to control whatever needs control in the movements trend of the nature. When these are fairly established, one has laid But peace is the foundation on first condition without which one nothing else can develop be stable. Wideness and calmness are the yoga consciousnessand with foundation of the yoga Yogic consciousness there comes an easy opening to realisation and the best condition for inner growth and experience. If a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, occupying and filling the very body and all its cells, that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the transformation is hardly possible.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabclcwsa/2329/experiencespeace-andthe-realisationsbasis-iof-the-sadhana#p32p1,p4,p18</ref>
==Freud's Psycho-analysis-==