The Metaphysical basis for Integral Health — illusionism and health
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2015
errorAn error has a chance to be corrected whereas an illusion needs to be rejected.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — the Integral Manifestation
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2015
omnipresenteachsame essenceAnnomay PuruṣaPranomay PuruṣaManomay Puruṣasame being in different poises
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — relevance of the Individual
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2015
Does spirituality endorse an obliteration of the individual in the vastness of the Absolute? Indeed, the experiential contact with the Absolute is so overwhelming, awe-inspiring and total that individuality loses its relevance and what remains is only a cosmic vastness or an all-effacing transcendence. All material parameters of the illumined individual become insignificant in the vastness of the cosmic consciousness or in the eternity of the transcendence. That is why both Shankaracharya and Buddha advocated that ultimate salvation lay in the cessation from the cycle of death and birth, a movement eulogised in spiritual parlance as liberation. The spiritual illumination of the individual thus came to signify the dissolution of an ephemeral individuality.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — Consciousness-Force: implications in psychology and healing
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2014
It is difficult to describe the Absolute as its experiential realisation in Transcendence surpasses our usual cognitive grasp. When the experience was sought to be conveyed to the world, Indian yogis used the famous term Sachchidananda — a triune of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss — to describe the nature of Reality. It is important to note that the three terms are not additive; they are different poises of the same Reality and form a complex triune. As ‘Existence’, Reality is present as the inmost essence of everything and in this poise is known as the Self. As ‘Bliss’, Reality carries within itself the intrinsic and motiveless joy of self-expression, self-manifestation and self-creation.
The metaphysical basis for Integral Health — reconciling different poises of Reality
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2014
In Chapter IV of The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo, while unveiling the nature of the Omnipresent Reality, makes three important reconciliations at three experiential levels: