Volume 24, Issue 3

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2016

The non-judgmental attitude immortalised in the blind-folded godhead at Tirupati is a powerful symbol that can be utilised in counselling. Imperfection gives a subject a chance for evolutionary progress and the Divine Grace is unconditional in its benevolence.

By Shilpi Mohan - Oct 15, 2016

The author describes vividly how the flower of Gulmohar evokes in her a process of integration of the light and shadow parts of her being and a realisation of her life-purpose on this earth.

By Dorathea Thompson - Oct 15, 2016

Through a series of actual one-to-one encounters with infirm ashramites at Desirée, a Sri Aurobindo home for elderly ashramites at Pondicherry, India, a psychoanalyst shares her experiences, observations and reflections and the delight, grace and healing power of a soul-guided approach to human caring, both for herself as caregiver and the individuals she is attempting to serve.

By The Mother - Oct 15, 2016

When Sri Aurobindo says that illness comes from outside, what exactly is it that comes?

By Dipsinh Chavda - Oct 15, 2016

Any bodily injury, be it operative or accidental, is not only associated with local effects, but is also accompanied by a systemic metabolic response. Nutrition, fluid and electrolyte maintenance is a fundamental component of surgery. Patients undergoing surgery are at high risk of malnutrition due to the combination of pre-operative starvation and activation of both the immune system and the neuro-endocrine stress response. Malnourished surgical patients are at increased risk of cardio-respiratory embarrassment, chest and wound infections, prolonged hospitalisation and death. Hence, feeding must be undertaken pre-operatively. Patients awaiting planned surgery should be admitted early to rectify any malnutrition and to make compensatory arrangements for potential fluid and electrolyte imbalance, which might occur during and after operative procedure. Suśruta gave strong recommendations about this in his treatise, theHe advised that no surgical procedure should be performed without first administering a light, liquid diet. The principle still stands today but in other forms of administration.