Volume 27, Issue 2
NAMAH Journal Volume 27, Issue 2
Articles in this Issue
The reversal of consciousness
By The Mother - Jul 15, 2019
To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has in the mental field. It may be said of someone that he hasn’t much mental, vital or physical capacity, that his possibilities are very limited; in that case it may be asked how these capacities may be developed, that is, how new ones may be acquired, which is something rather difficult. But to live the spiritual life is to open to another world within oneself. It is to reverse one’s consciousness, as it were. The ordinary human consciousness, even in the most developed, even in men of great talent and great realisation, is a movement turned outwards — all the energies are directed outwards, the whole consciousness is spread outwards; and if anything is turned inwards, it is very little, very rare, very fragmentary, it happens only under the pressure of very special circumstances, violent shocks, the shocks life gives precisely with the intention of slightly reversing this movement of exteriorisation of the consciousness.
The paradox of addiction
By Mira Prabhu - Jul 15, 2019
The worst addiction is to our limited sense of self. It is this egoic state, which we have carefully fabricated over lifetimes, to which most of us are really addicted. Only a sharp intellect that can cut through the illusions and delusions of relative life, coupled with a yearning for genuine peace, can give us the determination to confront it and then dissolve it into a higher consciousness.
The Creative Soul
By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Jul 15, 2019
Nolini Kanta Gupta. The Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta.Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education; 1970, pp. 7-9.
The body — our perfect teacher
By James Anderson - Jul 15, 2019
When we integrate the body in our true growth and progress, it becomes our teacher. To learn we have to listen to it. The unique relation it bears with the soul facilitates this. The author touches on some of his experiences.
Some processes and premises in Yoga
By Alok Pandey - Jul 15, 2019
The field of yoga may be called as the field of the psycho-spiritual evolution of man. Its base is the inner subjective space and human body as it stands today. As in any field, yoga involves certain processes and premises that relate to its field of the psychological evolution of man. We discuss some of these premises and processes in this article.