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Namah Healing through works

armed with aspiration and remembrance. For need to remember always who and what we
a beginning, Sri Aurobindo advises that, “If are. We need to remember always who the
you can’t as yet remember the Divine all the work is for. Our poise needs to be static
time you are working, it does not greatly matter. inside to maintain alignment and assist our
To remember and dedicate at the beginning growth and healing. The orientation needs
and give thanks at the end ought to be enough to come from there and this remembrance
for the present. Or at the most to remember needs nurturing whether one is physically
too when there is a pause (4).“ Over time, the active or not. The works just provide a
connection grows and one works more and greater challenge. They are a very meaningful
more inside Her Presence. A continuous, proposition if one wants yoga to embrace
unbroken invocation and offering is the aim. every aspect of living. Here is where this
I find naama-japa such a help in this context. unique yoga comes into operation. Naturally
Once the mantra is fixed, it becomes a rock when we are static and quiescent, the patterns
on which everything rests! Whenever we that churn away continuously inside us in
remember we invoke and simultaneously everyday life become often dormant, but
offer. Conversely the invocation reinforces at work they have a way of surfacing all
the sense of remembrance. the time. The interaction and kinesis mean
that disruptions can frequently arise. These
In my experience, I find this connection inner distortions lie at the root of man’s
essential because motion or activity has a disease. So if one is sufficiently conscious
way sometimes of pulling the consciousness and attentive, work is the perfect arena for
outwards. If one is not attentive, losing the short-circuiting any falsity that rises up in
thread becomes a habit. The action takes over us. So the opportunity to heal comes to us
and I somehow lose orientation inside and my 24/7 — we need just to stay awake. The
consecration shrinks. It’s like a gravitational moment a negative pattern surfaces there
force. Sometimes when the work is in part is an opportunity to annul it immediately
routine, the mind gets listless and distracted. at the root. However one needs to be in the
Execution suffers and it is very difficult to truest state of consciousness to achieve the
retrieve the single-pointedness needed for complete result. A piecemeal remedy will
the work. Fatigue will inevitably set in when only provide a piecemeal solution.
the consciousness lags. The quality of work
we perform is always a vivid reflection of Moving towards equality
our inner health. All these blemishes happen
because we lose track of the true Will. If that With true work we move upwards to level
happens, I dust myself down, call, offer and ground. We are ‘equalising’ our nature. As we
try to re-start the work in a new light and climb higher we have to secure ourselves on
a new vein. Whenever we reconnect with an equal footing. As we rise, the lower parts of
our true station, we discover the Supreme our nature must be offered to the descending
Will once again. This is why remembrance Force. As we offer we move gradually
is so important. Thousands of adjustments, upwards onto more stable footing. If we don’t,
effective realignments, have to be made before at any minute, our practice risks a calamitous
the connection becomes spontaneous. We fall. The road to equality is painstaking and

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