Monkey matters
By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2010
We had an unexpected visitor the other day. Well, not quite so, given the fact that ‘it is the hour of the unexpected’. Nevertheless we did not expect a monkey to enter the house by the third floor and move about the house as if he were quite familiar with the ways of human beings. Not that we have much to boast about, but we somehow nurture a sense of superiority over the animal kind. Even the most depressed person, someone suffering from a constant inferiority complex, (which, by the way, is only the obverse side of a hidden wish for superiority) would normally not regard himself as inferior to an animal. Darwin told us so. We are superior animals, intelligent beings, better equipped for survival than all other creatures from the virus to God knows whatever else. Only the aliens may surpass us in cunning and intelligence. As a human species we are always told to look down upon a poor creature on the road, to pity or avoid it. There is nothing we can learn from it, though we can use it for our domestic purposes or for entertainment. Of course I have known people wallowing in states where they feel themselves worse than a worm. Perhaps that is what retrogression is and not the way we describe it, grotesquely and a little dramatically, as people recounting all their past lives in an animal form in such detail as if it was something great remembering one’s worm-hood or monkey-hood.
Live Your Truth
By James Anderson - Jan 15, 2024
James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.
In vitro or in vivo? The question before modern science
By Venkatesh Palla - Jul 15, 2021
tamasrajaskinesissattvapancabhūta, saptadhātus, pancakośa, aṣtasiddhi
Healing and knowledge
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2019
Knowledge aligns our nature to the Truth. The vehicle is consciousness; the searchlight one of observation. Everything is enveloped by the Truth so healing through Works and Love base themselves upon it. The triune approach offers the supreme healing.
“Finally it is Faith that cures”
By James Anderson - Apr 24, 2021
Faith is something innate to us, but it is what we relinquish through our conditioning. Faith is a certitude which, over time, is ceded and must be retrieved. What was once a natural connection must be made conscious through yoga. For the work of transformation, faith must eventually be implanted into each one of our cells.