Alok Pandey
Doctor
Articles by Alok Pandey (71)
Parallel truths
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2013
There are two movements, seemingly parallel, that influenced the scientific mind of the 20th century. The first entered into the abyss of matter tearing one veil after another from the face of all that appeared to be substance and form. It explored the dumb depths to discover dark secrets. Incredible powers were found and harnessed for the purpose of improving man’s outer life. Amid the heart of the earth lay asleep the secret to dive and fly. Its energy could be used to drive huge machines, give light or destroy the world entirely. Amazing drugs were discovered that sped straight through specific parts of the body to heal or harm. The far became near, the dumb began to speak. Even death’s army appeared to be receding as the siege of science put everything under the control of material laws and processes. The mystery and charm of life appeared to be lost except for a thin substratum of quantum quarks spinning in an empty void. It was hoped that having understood this, nothing more would remain. The ocean was fathomed, the bowels of earth plundered, the sky scanned. What more could be left, except for stretches of endless silent star studded space, and this too would speak some day at the command of man? All life seemed soon to be reduced to mechanical formulae. But not quite.
The tragedies of time
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2012
Each viewpoint has its truth and is yet incomplete. Even a sum of these views remains so, due to the very nature of the consciousness that experiences the phenomenon. Man, as long as he is part of the machinery of Nature, sees a blind mechanical force with no clear goal. He is like someone strapped to the undercarriage of a car, feeling the twists and turns of the wheels of fate, with partial glimpses of the road and scenery, without knowing the destination. He is oblivious too of the soul that steers along this dangerous road that now seems to overrun an abyss, then turns towards high and beautiful summits. This is the misery of man, or rather the misery called man, aptly described in the Upanishads as an object of sacrifice, perennially tied to the stake of the earth by the triple bonds of body, life and mind. Our mental blindness is a curse, our partial seeing a still greater one. The wholly blind are at least open to every possibility in the mind’s eye, but the one-eyed are shut in a limited arc of vision that allows nothing else into the mind than what they partially see.
Veda of the body: a preface
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2011
Dr. Alok Pandey is a psychiatrist practising at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
A soul’s journey through illness
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2011
Dr. Alok Pandey, a psychiatrist has been working through this way in his practice for many years.
The spiritual dimension of health
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2010
The UpanishadsThe Life DivineSpiritual Dimension of HealthParks textbook of Social and Preventive Medicine