Volume 24, Issue 2

By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2016

Moving forward sometimes implies moving backwards. As a tiger withholds its breath and movement for the leap, as sleep overtakes us carrying us towards the womb of darkness in a bid to prepare us for the next dawn, as Death intervenes on the highways of life to help us cross a dark chasm on our way towards a new birth, so too a seeming regression is also, eventually, a step towards a forward progression.

By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2016

In an age of increasing commercialism and advertisements, we often find saner voices suppressed or go unheard amidst the din and noise of these prevalent views. However alternate views exist like parallel universes, unseen yet strongly influencing us, drawing our heart and mind towards a deeper hidden reality. Homeopathy is one such world-view that looks at man from a different and holistic viewpoint than merely as a bundle of chemicals or a mechanical machine. As cracks begin to appear in our healthcare delivery system and promises of ultimate therapy through allopathy, more and more attention is turning towards alternate approaches of which homeopathy is among the most well-recognised and trusted method of treatment. The following interview gives us a brief but incisive overview of this alternate field of medicine that continues to help and heal many despite the strictures passed upon it by the proponents of mainstream medicine.

By Devashish Patnaik - Jul 15, 2016

This article outlines the healing journey one sadhak experienced in labouring to provide a place of beauty, serenity, and reflection for the benefit of others at the Park Guest House in Pondicherry. It is suggested that, in a similar way, anyone who gardens can (and probably already does!) gain wonderful benefits.

By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2016

The path of evolution opens through the choices we make. As human beings we face choices throughout our life. While there are many choices that compete with each other to preserve our present status, there is one that opens a door to the future. There is of course also a trap-door choice that hurls us back to the past. The present article deals with an overview of the choices we make for our evolutionary journey.

By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2016

Traditionally, ‘liberation’ from a world of suffering, ill-health, evil, darkness, ignorance, falsehood and death has been eulogised in the Indian psyche. Psychologically, the concept of ‘liberation’ arises from a yearning for ‘freedom’. Freedom is the magic word that beckons the human being in spite of one’s bondage. We are bound to our ‘fate’, circumstances, social obligations, ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ genes, ecological discrepancies, family ties, the political system, dependency needs, our own desires, the upsurges from our subconscious, collective suggestions and what not! It is a chimera to believe we are free! Yet, as Sri Aurobindo reiterates that ‘Freedom’ is one of those key guiding lights that return after all attempts to curb it, it is one of the quartette — “God, Light, Freedom, Immortality” that “survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment (1)”.