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Namah Notes on counselling

manner to touch the pinnacles of wisdom, techniques and drives have to respond and
the strength of the warrior-self had to be get aligned to. Equality then becomes a
subdued. Likewise, whenever the hand that prerequisite for higher living.
strikes the sword had to be rigorously trained
to be at the command of a mighty army, the Equality which began as an attitude becomes
pursuit of knowledge had to be subordinated. itself a knowledge. It finally becomes a
Yet without this basic breach of equality, the passage to a higher Life, a link to the Supreme
different lines of human progress would not Reality, a veritable Yoga.
have attained the superlative heights where
they could finally culminate. As the Gita enjoined:

A time comes when the evolutionary movement “Perform action, O Arjuna, being fixed in Yoga,
gets stagnated and a new paradigm should renouncing attachments and seated in equality
logically emerge and take over the reign of in regard to success and failure. Equality is
progress. The Aurobindonian perspective verily Yoga (2).”
shows that there is to be a change in the
evolutionary paradigm and henceforth the References
progress of the race has to be construed in
new terms of consciousness where equality, 1. The Mother. Collected Works of The Mother, Volume
harmony and equilibrium exist spontaneously 11. Cent. ed. Pondicherrry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
and naturally so that the evolutionary Trust; pp. 13-4.
trajectory moves not from inequality to
equality but from one level of equipoise to 2. Joshi K (transl.) The Gita, 2:48: Bhagavadgita and
another higher level of equipoise. It is to this Contemporary Crisis. New Delhi: Nag Publishers;
new call that our counselling programmes, 1996, p. 311.

Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of
psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
Sharmila Basu is a clinical psychologist based in Pondicherry.

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