Soumitra Basu

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2017

The Life DivineIntegral ManifestationBeingNon-beingBecoming

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2017

Depression can be a mood, a symptom or a disease. A consciousness world-view examines depression at various planes of consciousness. Though depression arises on the vital plane, its effects are discernible through its effects on other planes and through their combinations. An access to the Prāṇic Śakti in the inner being, a replacement of the ego by a greater principle and an identity with the Bliss-principle are ways to conquer depression. Prāṇic Śakti

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2016

Traditionally, ‘liberation’ from a world of suffering, ill-health, evil, darkness, ignorance, falsehood and death has been eulogised in the Indian psyche. Psychologically, the concept of ‘liberation’ arises from a yearning for ‘freedom’. Freedom is the magic word that beckons the human being in spite of one’s bondage. We are bound to our ‘fate’, circumstances, social obligations, ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ genes, ecological discrepancies, family ties, the political system, dependency needs, our own desires, the upsurges from our subconscious, collective suggestions and what not! It is a chimera to believe we are free! Yet, as Sri Aurobindo reiterates that ‘Freedom’ is one of those key guiding lights that return after all attempts to curb it, it is one of the quartette — “God, Light, Freedom, Immortality” that “survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment (1)”.

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2016

The burden of the Subconscious1 and terrestrial Inconscience necessitates that the stress reaction be approached from an integral paradigm that includes and surpasses Benson’s Relaxation Response.

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2015

errorAn error has a chance to be corrected whereas an illusion needs to be rejected.