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.Growth
Tapasya and Surrender: The Paradoxical Process of Self-Transformation
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...
Insight
Fatigue and Work
Fatigue, it is said, comes from overwork. The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that is, do-nothing. But the truth of the matter is that most often fatigue is due not to too much work, but rather too little work, in other words, laziness or boredom. Read more...
Think it Over
Meaning: Meaning?
Our earthly existence, our day-to-day living, is filled with and formed of, hugely, the pursuit of Meaning — of what not, meaning of words, meaning of happenings, etc. Perhaps, this search has manifested and is still manifesting as various branches of ‘academic disciplines.’ And all this search for meanings, leading perhaps invariably to the search for the meaning of one’s own being, now finds Meaning in search of its own meaning: Meaning seeks itself, seeks the meaning of its continuance as an eternal ‘present continuous’. Read more...
Yoga
What do You Want the Yoga For?
What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace and calm? To serve humanity?
None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for the Path. Read more...
The Mind
Dealing with the Subconscious and Inconscience
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 subconscious at the other end to finally sink in the Inconscience. The subconscious is the repository of all movements that have been rejected from the conscious participation in the world, and these movements have the potentiality to rebound back to invade life; rebounds that may result in neurotic conflicts, recurrences of illness, chronicity of disease and lapses of character. Read more...
