Volume 19, Issue 4
NAMAH Journal Volume 19, Issue 4
Articles in this Issue
The tragedies of time
By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2012
Each viewpoint has its truth and is yet incomplete. Even a sum of these views remains so, due to the very nature of the consciousness that experiences the phenomenon. Man, as long as he is part of the machinery of Nature, sees a blind mechanical force with no clear goal. He is like someone strapped to the undercarriage of a car, feeling the twists and turns of the wheels of fate, with partial glimpses of the road and scenery, without knowing the destination. He is oblivious too of the soul that steers along this dangerous road that now seems to overrun an abyss, then turns towards high and beautiful summits. This is the misery of man, or rather the misery called man, aptly described in the Upanishads as an object of sacrifice, perennially tied to the stake of the earth by the triple bonds of body, life and mind. Our mental blindness is a curse, our partial seeing a still greater one. The wholly blind are at least open to every possibility in the mind’s eye, but the one-eyed are shut in a limited arc of vision that allows nothing else into the mind than what they partially see.
Stop believing in your own weakness
By Vernon Howard - Jan 15, 2012
Mr. Vernon Howard was a renowned American spiritual thinker and philosopher.
Self-esteem in children
By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2012
Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist, is the Director of a new school of psychology, the Mira Vision Trust. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
Nullifying pain
By The Mother - Jan 15, 2012
Mother, here Sri Aurobindo has said that pain is a degradation of an original Ananda...
Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2012
We enter the year of cataclysmic prediction. Prophesies of the end of the world in 2012 have become a popular theme for a number of writings and even cinema scripts. Whether true or not, they portray the kind of cynicism on life that has crept into the human mind. To add to this general air of pessimism, there are events in the financial and political world that show a collapsing old order of life.