Volume 29, Issue 1

By James Anderson - Apr 24, 2021

James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.

By Geeta Kumar - Apr 24, 2021

The article is based on the author’s understanding of the dimensions and layers of consciousness as given by Sri Aurobindo. Its presentation is engagingly academic and hence carries its own importance. These are, however, not necessarily in the way Sri Aurobindo has revealed through his Works.

By Christian A. Latino - Apr 24, 2021

Psychology, Mental health and Yoga: Sri Aurobindo’s Psychological Thought Implications of Yoga for Mental Health.

By The Mother - Apr 24, 2021

Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to bear and grow in rapture. She has three stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy. As far as moral things are concerned, this is absolutely obvious, it is indisputable — all moral suffering moulds your character and leads you straight to ecstasy, when you know how to take it. But when it comes to the body... It is true that doctors have said that if one can teach the body to bear pain, it becomes more and more resilient and less easily disrupted — this is a concrete result. In the case of people who know how to avoid getting completely upset as soon as they have a pain somewhere, who are able to bear it quietly, to keep their balance, it seems that the body’s capacity to bear the disorder without going to pieces increases. This is a great achievement. I have asked myself this question from the purely practical, external standpoint and it seems to be like this. Inwardly, I have been told this many times — told and shown by small experiences — that the body can bear much more than we think, if no fear or anxiety is added to the pain. If we eliminate the mental factor, the body, left to itself, has neither fear nor apprehension nor anxiety about what is going to happen — no anguish — and it can bear a great deal. The second step is when the body has decided to bear it — you see, it takes the decision to bear it: immediately, the acuteness, what is acute in the pain disappears. I am speaking absolutely materially. And if you are calm — here, another factor comes in, the need for inner calm — if you have the inner calm, then the pain changes into an almost pleasant sensation — not “pleasant” in the ordinary sense, but an almost comfortable feeling comes. Again, I am speaking purely physically, materially. And the last stage, when the cells have faith in the divine Presence and in the sovereign divine Will, when they have this trust that all is for the good, th

By Unknown Author - Apr 24, 2021

A year has passed and yet it has been as if we had traversed a decade. It is indeed a leap where some have crossed a deep chasm of pain in a single bound. Some have fallen into the deeps but they too are not lost. For none is ever lost in this great and tremendous journey of life. They too shall rise and return in a world grown stronger and sweet through all these varied challenges of life.