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THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT JOURNAL

NAMAH is a pioneer, peer-reviewed, internationally indexed body, mind and spirit journal with an integral vision looking at the influence of the spirit or soul in psychology and health.


Insight

Origin and Nature of Suffering

Nolini Kanta Gupta

Suffering there is, some say, because the soul takes delight in it: if there was not the soul’s delight behind, there would not be any suffering at all. There are still two other positions with regard to suffering which we do not deal with in the present context, namely, (1) that it does not exist at all, the absolute Ananda of the Brahman being the sole reality, suffering, along with the manifested world of which it is a part, is illusion pure and simple, (2) that suffering exists, but it comes not from soul or God but from the Anti-divine: it is at the most tolerated by God and He uses it as best as He can for His purpose. That, however, is not our subject here. We ask then what delight can the soul take when the body is suffering, say, from cancer. If it is delight, it must be of a perverse variety. Is it not the whole effort of mankind to get rid of pain and suffering, make of our life and of the world, if possible, a visible play of pure and undefiled Ananda? Read more...


Consciousness and health

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...


Think it Over

Inhabit, Light

Sushmita Mukherjee

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...


Inner approach to health

The Power of Japa and Affirmations

Dr. Monica Gulati

Insight

Some of us doubt the power of a Japa or affirmation, or repetition of any name or phrase or mantra or sentence. But then we can question ourselves, ‘Am I not doing a Japa all the time?’ I am repeating my storylines in my mind, judgements and opinions about people and myself, my narratives of what happened in the past or present. Read more...


The Body

The Central Will of the Physical Being and the Cells

The Mother

“Where does the physical being’s disgust at carrying on the effort of coordination and harmonization come from?”

That disgust generally occurs when there is in some part of the being — an important part, either vital or mental — an absolute refusal to progress, and so, physically, that expresses itself as a refusal to exert oneself against the deterioration that stems from time. Read more...


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UPCOMING EVENTS


Embodying the Yogic Truths We've Long Known: The Journey from Knowing to Being, an online immersion organised by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health with Ankita Sharma on 18-20 June, 2025 at 7.00 – 8.30 pm IST



Going Deeper & Becoming Vaster in Seamless Sadhana, an online programme organised by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health with James Anderson on 24-27 June, 2025 at 7.00-8.30 pm IST



Opening to the Aid of Grace, an online workshop organised by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health with Shweta C. Rajurkar on 1-5 July, 2025 at 5.30-7.00 p IST



Consciousness-Based Counselling (Integral Psychotherapy), a year-long, vocational and certificate course, organised by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health, with Dr. Soumitra Basu on 6th & 20th July, 3rd & 17th August, 7th & 21st September, 5th & 19th October, 2nd & 16th November, 7th & 21st December 2025, 4th & 18th January, 1st & 15th February, 1st & 15th March, 5th & 19th April, 3rd & 17th May, 7th & 21st June, 5th July 2026 at 4.30-6.00 pm IST (1st & 3rd Sundays)



Prana – the Subtle Breath to Greater Health, an online workshop organised by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health with Dr. Yogesh Mohan on 12-13 July, 2025 at 5.00-7.00 pm IST