NAMAH Journal

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

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

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...

05/07/2025

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

Dreams and Sadhana
Lopa Mukherjee

The Mother said that dreamtime is the night-school of sādhanā. We can use dreams in our spiritual quest and they are important for our psychological health. Dreams have been used by oracles from the beginning of civilisations to solve problems, predict the future, heal deep-seated wounds and create new possibilities. This paper explores how dreams can help our inner growth if we open ourselves to their subtle touch. Read more...

The Mother said that dreamtime is the night-school of sādhanā. We can use dreams in our spiritual quest and they are important for our psychological health. Dreams have been used by oracles from the beginning of civilisations to solve problems, predict the future, heal deep-seated wounds and creat...

09/06/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Role-of-Will-in-Sadhana-vol-32-issue-2.html

The Role of Will in Sadhana

Dr. A.S. Dalal

True Will is free from all mental or vital interference. As long as they are involved, there has to be effort. Effort is necessary in opening to the psychic influence and, as that gradually happens, effort is replaced by surrender and the true Will emerges in our sādhanā. Read more... https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Role-of-Will-in-Sadhana-vol-32-issue-2.html

True Will is free from all mental or vital interference. As long as they are involved, there has to be effort. Effort is necessary in opening to the psychic influence and, as that gradually happens, effort is replaced by surrender and the true Will emerges in our sādhanā.

26/05/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Inhabit-Light-vol-32-issue-2.html

Think it Over

Inhabit, Light
James Anderson

Insight
The Word, ‘inhabit’, opens at a Given Moment, on a Chosen Day, and triggers this: a Prayer. We are creatures of habits, till we no longer are: when we realise and refuse to be that anymore, when we realise that these habits, formed through unknown lives in unknown forms, are inhibiting inhabitants of the Temple within. We want to consecrate the Temple to the Deity within, to the Divine Mother. But these in habit, that inhabit, these are very, and naturally, sticky inhabitants marring and clouding even our speech too, along with each movement of our being. And so, to Her we offer our difficulty, and Her invoke, assured by Her Affirmations and showers of Her Grace…. Read more...
https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Inhabit-Light-vol-32-issue-2.html

The Word, ‘inhabit’, opens at a Given Moment, on a Chosen Day, and triggers this: a Prayer. We are creatures of habits, till we no longer are: when we realise and refuse to be that anymore, when we realise that these habits, formed through unknown lives in unknown forms, are inhibiting inhabitan...

26/05/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Inhabit-Light-vol-32-issue-2.html

10/05/2025

https://www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/The-Power-of-Japa-and-Affirmations-vol-32-issue-2.html