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Facing pain
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2013
The article is a personal journey through pain. The author looks at pain from a purely yogic angle. Pain used to be faced as a reality from which there was no escape. The author discusses the various means he has used to face pain. The article explores some concepts of Integral Health in the light of the Integral Yoga.
Foothills to equality — II
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2012
Once again, the author traces his journey of yoga as it winds through the foothills of equality. It is an interesting account of the path he has taken in keeping with his nature. For each the path is revealed differently, and the signpost of equality has to be crossed by whatever road we arrive.
The descending path
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2011
The following article describes a personal journey towards an integral healing and realignment of the entire personality through the processes of Integral Yoga.Although each of us experiences the yoga journey in a unique way, this article brings out some key elements and central processes of the Integral Yoga that stand as universal constants. It rightly points out that the ultimate way out of human problems and issues, whether of health or otherwise, is the way within. All yogic traditions recognise this need of going within and looking from within. However, the Integral Yoga teaches us also how to bring out this inmost core and exercise its influence upon the without, on our surface consciousness, our body and eventually even upon our external environment. But for this process to arrive at its fullness, there is needed, on the one side, a constant and sincere aspiration full of faith and surrender that ascends like a one-pointed flame of sacrifice from earth and, on the other side, a descent of the very highest Grace, the Peace and Wideness and Knowledge and Power and Ananda of the Divine Consciousness-Force, the One referred to as the Cit-Śakti in the Vedas and adored as Aditi, the Supreme Mother in the Tāntras and the Puraṇas. While the two processes of ascent and descent go together, the focus of this article is on the descending path.
The riddle of life
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2010
All forms of life are made perfect. No plant or animal ever thinks of exceeding itself. Only man. So we see such modern miracles like flying across the world in a day, across the solar system in a week or communicating around the world as if we are here and now. And even in the inner worlds, where no other life-form dares to intrude, man goes...This is one such adventure.
Working with Her Force
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2009
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