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By Manoj Pavithran - Oct 15, 2025

When considering the concept of tapas, a Sanskrit word often translated into English as austerity, we perceive an active will of concentrated effort. Conversely, the term ‘surrender‘ evokes the notion of a profound receptive passivity. How do these seemingly contradictory movements, one active and the other passive, converge in the process of our self-transformation? A simple analogy to facilitate their integration is to envision surrender as the bridge connecting the human tapas to the divine tapas.

By Sushmita Mukherjee - Oct 15, 2025

Our earthly existence, our day-to-day living, is filled with and formed of, hugely, the pursuit of Meaning — of what not, meaning of words, meaning of happenings, etc. Perhaps, this search has manifested and is still manifesting as various branches of ‘academic disciplines.’ And all this search for meanings, leading perhaps invariably to the search for the meaning of one’s own being, now finds Meaning in search of its own meaning: Meaning seeks itself, seeks the meaning of its continuance as an eternal ‘present continuous’.

By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Oct 15, 2025

Fatigue, it is said, comes from overwork. The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that is, do-nothing. But the truth of the matter is that most often fatigue is due not to too much work, but rather too little work, in other words, laziness or boredom. In fact, fatigue need not come too soon or too easily, provided one knows how to set about his work. If you are interested in your work, you can continue for a very long time without fatigue; and precisely one of the means of recovering from fatigue is not to sit down and slip into lethargy and tamas, but to take up a work that rouses your interest. Work done in joy and quiet enthusiasm is tonic: it is dynamic rest. A work done without interest, as a sort of duty or task, will naturally tire you soon. The remedy therefore against fatigue is to keep the interest awake. Now, there is a further mystery. Interest does not depend upon the work: any work can be made interesting and interesting to a supreme degree. There is no work which is by itself dull, insipid, uninteresting. All depends upon the value you yourself put upon it; you can choose to make it as attractive as a romance, as significant as a symbol. How to do it? How to find interest in anything or all things? Is there not a work that conforms to your nature, adapted to your character and capacity? And are there not works that are against the grain with you that lie outside your scope and province?

By Pulkit Sharma - Oct 14, 2025

We live in stormy times. The storm is alarming no doubt but when it abates, as all storms must do, they leave not just a trail of destruction but also a massive change of fixed positions, a shift, a dislocation and a push beyond the accustomed comfort-zones.

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 14, 2025

the subconscient must be clarified so that the new race can come

By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2025

James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.

By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2025

In the race towards sophisticated medical systems, we have somewhere lost the human touch. Money and machines are the new lords now, rather than compassion and the personal touch. It is time to take a relook at our medical education and ask where we are heading. This article explores this issue of building healers rather than standardised medicine dispensing-machines.