Volume 23, Issue 2
NAMAH Journal Volume 23, Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
Mental awareness in comatose patients and sleeping newborn infants
By Sandeep Joshi - Jul 15, 2015
The phenomenon of unconsciousness is a mystery. A greater mystery is consciousness itself. Scientists and mystics have been exploring the secrets of consciousness for centuries but it is only relatively recently that there has been a more general upsurge of interest in it. Among the many explorers of this undefined and uncharted field, we are fortunate to have had amongst us Sri Aurobindo, the mystic par excellence, who explored this little-known territory in all its profundity, height and depth. Besides sounding its abysses, he also described its various shades and ranges, its levels and appropriate functioning and their interconnectedness and influence upon earth and humanity. There is now a real wealth of spiritual science left at our doorstep. This article explores just a few of the facets in the consciousness/unconsciousness dimension, drawing its insight from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with appropriate parallels from the world of documented data.
Health – a dynamic inner equilibrium
By Vandana Gupta - Jul 15, 2015
It is difficult to consistently harmonise the milieu interior of the body with a highly heterogeneous external environment. It would be easier to develop an inner master harmony which would surpass our present paradigms of health and disease. The process begins with higher energies influencing and transforming the Lower energy-states. Then disruptive elements are surpassed within or outside oneself and illnesses prevented.
Growing and expanding
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2015
Expanding is conducive to growth, health and well-being. True expansion is integral: as every part of our being is interconnected, the process begins from inside to spread through the whole range of our nature and to manifest and radiate in the body itself. The process of expansion is the work of transformation.
Gratitude — the great attitude Part
By Mira Prabhu - Jul 15, 2015
Can practising gratitude transform one overnight into a serene being? No, but a consistent and sincere readiness to look on the bright side most certainly shrinks fears, clears vision and allows one to move forward with increasing confidence and joy. This is what the author discovered for herself when a deadly spider infected her body and she almost died an excruciating death in a region surrounding the Himalayas.
Evolution Next — IV
By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2015
Evolution is mostly an unconscious process though it can be a conscious one. There are many forces in the field that are working, — forces that have helped evolution in the past and forces that are drawing the evolutionary curve towards the Future. This is a truth if we accept the Indian idea that evolution is essentially a progressive manifestation of the Divine in Matter. Behind all these forces at play there is the mysterious action of what can best be termed as Grace. In this piece we focus a little more on the action of Grace in the evolutionary process.