Volume 20, Issue 2
NAMAH Journal Volume 20, Issue 2
Articles in this Issue

Dealing with stigma
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2012
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An overview of Buerger’s disease (Thrombo angitis obliterans) in Āyurveda
By Martha Bhaskar Rao, Dr. Hemanth Kumar Kushwaha - Jul 15, 2012
Each age of mankind has its own unique way of understanding and relating with the world around it. Āyurveda belongs to an intuitive age of mankind that precedes the age of rational enlightenment as it also precedes the age of darkness and superstition. However, the two ages that followed it, like night and dawn, disintegrated much of this knowledge and whatever remained was further lost in semantics. It is now difficult to know exactly what each word used in that age stood for unless we enter into an inner sympathy with it. The article is an interesting attempt to bridge the gap between the two ages, the ancient wisdom and modern knowledge using a rare disease as its model.

Beyond paradigms — III
By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2012
Einstein failed to validate his own 'unified field theory' with a single mathematical equation that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms, but the Mother's spiritual experience validated the same theory in terms of consciousness. Her description of experiencing a great undulating wave of consciousness, expanding and contracting in a vast, calm and harmonious rhythm, opens the possibility of a poise of consciousness where one is capable of 'being' at every point in the universe. Science today needs a paradigm shift to a poise centred in consciousness.