Volume 18, Issue 3

By Manikonda Prakash Rao - Oct 15, 2010

The article is the result of a search by the author to cure himself of a crippling asthma, sinusitis and resultant conjunctivitis. He left his legal practice to pursue health. He succeeded. Now at the age of 72 he is fitter than a 40 year old. He hopes to spread the message that it is possible to live without repeated courses of antibiotics, bronchodilaters or nebulisers if you are willing to do exercises.

By Alok Pandey - Oct 15, 2010

"...in the language of the Upanishad, the life-force is the food of the body and the body the food of the life-force; in other words, the life-energy in us both supplies the material by which the form is built up and constantly maintained and renewed and is at the same time constantly using up the substantial form of itself which it thus creates and keeps in existence. If the balance between these two operations is imperfect or is disturbed or if the ordered play of the different currents of life-force is thrown out of gear, then disease and decay intervene and commence the process of disintegration. And the very struggle for conscious mastery and even the growth of mind make the maintenance of the life more difficult. For there is an increasing demand of the life-energy on the form, a demand which is in excess of the original system of supply and disturbs the original balance of supply and demand and, before a new balance can be established, many disorders are introduced inimical to the harmony and to the length of maintenance of the life; in addition the attempt at mastery creates always a corresponding reaction in the environment which is full of forces that also desire fulfilment and are therefore intolerant of, revolt against and attack the existence which seeks to master them. There too a balance is disturbed, a more intense struggle is generated; however strong the mastering life, unless either it is unlimited or else succeeds in establishing a new harmony with its environment, it cannot always resist and triumph but must one day be overcome and disintegrated."

By D.B. Bisht - Oct 15, 2010

This is the 1st death anniversary of Dr. D.B. Bisht – the ever-humorous Chairman of SAIIIHR. Even while suffering from a terminal illness, he would crack jokes and make all of us laugh. This article was discovered in a few of the things he was writing with a palsy impaired hand. It was typical of him!

By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Oct 15, 2010

(Collected works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, Vol.3. Nolini Kanta Gupta Birth Centenary Celebrations Committee, Calcutta; 1989, p. 373).

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2010

(a) The spiritual and mystical traditions in India had the experiential realisation that consciousness per se could outlive the individual lifespan. The 2001 manifesto of the Scientific and Medical Network in U.K. postulated that some form of consciousness could survive brain death. It has of course been acknowledged in spiritual research that if an individual consciousness has been worked upon, developed intensely along one or several dimensions that range from intuitive creativity to titanic strength, then that consciousness can surpass not only the individual lifespan but also the constraints of space and time and continue to influence, stimulate and inspire susceptible individuals at different places, climes and eras. Thus the consciousness of Alexander, Socrates, Galileo, Columbus, Beethoven, Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci continue to inspire and shape the lives and activities of warriors, thinkers, scientists, explorers, musicians, litterateurs and artists throughout the world and throughout the ages. Such an inspiration might not be merely hypothetical; it can be a concrete presence in the consciousness, an internal energiser, a motivator to replicate, innovate and act out ideals and values in consonance with the Time-Spirit.