Alok Pandey

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2020

There is a medical way of looking at life and death, health and illness. It is largely based on an understanding of the material processes and forms of life. Valid in its own field, it has its own advantages as well as its own limitations.

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2019

It is important to answer a few fundamental questions before we can live life meaningfully; among them a question of capital importance is as to the nature of Reality that underlies creation. Is it a mechanical inconscient energy or a conscious Force? Whatever it be, this Reality must be also within us since it is the origin and the source of all things. Is there a way to contact and confirm this Reality? These are the questions that have vexed mankind. Among the answers sought to these questions, the most promising seems to be coming through yoga. It is not just a philosophy or a belief-system but a real-time process of engaging and discovering Reality.

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2017

Adaptation and change are the guiding principles of evolution. The great game of life seems to favour co-existence and co-habitation over survival through exclusion of other types. But this adaptation is of various kinds and depends upon the level of our inner evolution. An evolutionary ladder exists within us through which we must climb to discover the right law of our being and living. At the lowest rung of this ladder is a life lived for oneself and one’s selfish survival and growth. At the other pole is a life that is lived taking into account the value and importance of other forms of life on our planet.

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2016

Is the body purely matter? How is it different from the metal or mud? What is the link between a human being, his body and the matter of which it is formed? Seers, since ancient times have said that it is ’consciousness’ or the ’spirit-that-moves-in-all things’. This article explores this aspect deeply and gives us a tool to mould our bodies.

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2016

We can regard evolution as a mechanical, inconscient process or a conscious unfolding. If it be the former then there it is like a blind and random process at a mega scale where no one really has any particular role in it. But if it is a conscious process with a direction and a plan, then we can not only observe it but also consciously participate in it. There are several levels at which Nature unfolds itself creating several levels of self-awareness. What is seen as unconscious at one level may well be seen as conscious at another. What appears as lifeless and inert at one level of vision and understanding may appear teeming with life and even idea at another, life pushing matter to organise itself in certain ways.