Volume 19, Issue 2
NAMAH Journal Volume 19, Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
The spiritual dimension of health
By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2011
The UpanishadsThe Life DivineSpiritual Dimension of HealthParks textbook of Social and Preventive Medicine
The power of prayer
By Rahul Chinappa - Jul 15, 2011
The power of prayer has been recognised since man’s quest for a higher and deeper sense in life began. But it is only relatively recently that this has been taken up and studied systematically by physiologists and neuroscientists alike. In this particular piece, the author gives his point of view.
The plural psyche and transformation of individual and society
By David Johnston - Jul 15, 2011
How the individuation process emerges from the flux of the parts and planes of our being is an interesting phenomenon in our understanding of the personality (Jungian scholars can also take a cue from Indian spirituality to understand the dimension of impersonality which is linked to egolessness). The author brings in another perspective. He studies how individuation is necessary to preserve individual uniqueness that is at risk of being marginalised in a huge machinery like a corporation or the state. This makes interesting reading in the background of our inter-connectedness.
The freedom of the body
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2011
There are all kinds of freedom — mental freedom, vital freedom, spiritual freedom — which are the fruits of successive masteries. But a completely new freedom has become possible with the Supramental Manifestation: it is the freedom of the body.
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.