Vital Education
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2021
Of all education, vital education is perhaps the most important, the most indispensable. Yet it is rarely taken up and pursued with discernment and method. There are several reasons for this: first, the human mind is in a state of great confusion about this particular subject; secondly, the undertaking is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endless endurance and persistence and a will that no failure can weaken.
The force of life
By Introduction - Jul 15, 2009
“All matter according to the Upanishad is food, and this is the formula of the material world that ‘the eater eating is himself eaten’. The life organised in the body is constantly exposed to the possibility of being broken up by the attack of the life external to it or, its devouring capacity being insufficient or not properly served or there being no right balance between the capacity of devouring and the capacity or necessity of providing food for the life outside, it is unable to protect itself and is devoured or is unable to renew itself and therefore wasted away or broken; it has to go through the process of death for a new construction or renewal.
Pursuit of Beauty
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2025
Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
The Vital Plane of Consciousness — Insights from Integral Yoga
By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2024
The vital plane impinges on the physical, innervates and energises it to produce the animate world. On the one hand, this impingement produces variety and beauty in the physical forms, on the other, the friction resulting from this impingement results in the first pain whose memory is still carried in our subconscious. But first let us study beauty in its pristine purity.