NAMAH Journal

17/12/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Tapasya-and-Surrender-vol-32-issue-4.html

Tapasya and Surrender: The Paradoxical Process of Self-Transformation

Manoj Pavithran

When considering the concept of tapas, a Sanskrit word often translated into English as austerity, we perceive an active will of concentrated effort. Conversely, the term ‘surrender‘ evokes the notion of a profound receptive passivity. How do these seemingly contradictory movements, one active and the other passive, converge in the process of our self-transformation? A simple analogy to facilitate their integration is to envision surrender as the bridge connecting the human tapas to the divine tapas. Read more... https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Tapasya-and-Surrender-vol-32-issue-4.html

When considering the concept of tapas, a Sanskrit word often translated into English as austerity, we perceive an active will of concentrated effort. Conversely, the term ‘surrender‘ evokes the notion of a profound receptive passivity. How do these seemingly contradictory movements, one active a...

26/11/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Fatigue-and-Work-vol-32-issue-3.html

21/10/2025

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21/10/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/What-do-you-Want-the-Yoga-for-vol-33-issue-3.html

21/10/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Editorial-Vol-33-iss-3.html

The programme of personal growth gets the greatest resistance from the subconscious (the Freudian Unconscious) and the Inconscience and dealing with them is an important part of the programme. The inner or subliminal consciousness which extends to the Super-conscience at one end also projects to the...

11/10/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Innovative-Practices-vol-32-issue-3.html

Education in medicine

Incorporating Spirituality in Higher Education and Patient-Care: Innovative Practices

Dr Bhalendu Vaishnav, Dr Param Pathak, Dr Smruti Vaishnav, Dr Vibha Vaishnav

This article is an attempt to outline various innovative practices in education and patient-care implemented over the past two decades by the Sri Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, and by the Pramukhswami Medical College at Bhaikaka University, Karamsad, Gujarat. These practices are deliberate efforts to raise awareness about spirituality and integrate it into mainstream educational and healthcare programmes. The practices mentioned are formal educational activities with a significant student participation. Read more...

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Innovative-Practices-vol-32-issue-3.html

20/09/2025

Inner approach to health

The Myth of Self-Love
James Anderson

Contrary to popular understanding, self-love is only falsehood; it amounts to little more than self-interest. It does not support a true and sustained well-being. Seeking satisfaction in our personal wants is no foundation for progress. For that, we need to purify ourselves and our love. For practice, we have to climb the gradations of Love. At the summit, one loves for the sake of loving. One becomes it. This is the supreme state.
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Contrary to popular understanding, self-love is only falsehood; it amounts to little more than self-interest. It does not support a true and sustained well-being. Seeking satisfaction in our personal wants is no foundation for progress. For that, we need to purify ourselves and our love. For practic...

30/08/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Anatomy-of-Desire-vol-32-issue-3.html

Growth

The Anatomy of Desire

Rekha K. Amar

Desires are products of ignorance and can cause enormous suffering if not dealt with sufficient wisdom. To handle them skilfully, especially in today’s instant gratification age, a fixed set of mental rules are not always helpful. The power of desire is such that these external rules can fail us any time. What can help instead is an impersonal observation of the whole anatomy of desire, a clear understanding of how it works within us and how it influences our mind and psychology. If we approach the problem in this manner, we can hope to negate its effects by taking intelligent decisions, minimising suffering for ourselves and others and gaining control over our lives. Read more... https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Anatomy-of-Desire-vol-32-issue-3.html

Desires are products of ignorance and can cause enormous suffering if not dealt with sufficient wisdom. To handle them skilfully, especially in today’s instant gratification age, a fixed set of mental rules are not always helpful. The power of desire is such that these external rules can fail us a...

23/08/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Missing-Human-Touch-vol-32-issue-3.html

18/07/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Editorial-Vol-33-iss-2.html

The Soul

The Journey to the Soul-Space
Dr. Soumitra Basu

We have not only an Outer Being (which is known as the personality in contemporary psychology) but a larger and vaster but subliminal Inner Being. Unlike the outer being, the Inner Being cannot be sustained by the ego, it needs to be supported by the inmost soul-essence or the Psychic Being. The Inmost Being occupies the soul-space deeper to the psychological space of the inner Being and the aspirant for personal growth has to traverse all other spaces to reach the soul-space.
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We have not only an Outer Being (which is known as the personality in contemporary psychology) but a larger and vaster but subliminal Inner Being. Unlike the outer being, the Inner Being cannot be sustained by the ego, it needs to be supported by the inmost soul-essence or the Psychic Being. The Inm...

18/07/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Blessing-of-Misfortune-vol-33-issue-2.html

Growth

The Blessing of Misfortune
The Mother

34 — O Misfortune, blessed be thou; for through thee I have seen the face of my Lover.

If through misfortune one sees the face of God, then it is no longer misfortune, is it?

Obviously, far from being a misfortune, it is a blessing. And this is precisely what Sri Aurobindo means.

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When things happen which are not what we expect, what we hope for, what we want, which are contrary to our desires, in our ignorance we call them misfortunes and lament. But if we were to become a little wiser and observe the deeper consequences of these very same events, we would find that they are...