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Namah Notes on counselling
powerful. Why accept the obscure bonds of libidinal disturbance is augmenting the creative
heredity and atavism — which are nothing else psyche of would-be parents along a spiritual
than subconscious preferences for our own trend perspective, perfecting the aspiration for
of character — when we can, by concentration being gifted with a noble soul. Like an artist
and will, call into being a type constructed who creates a marvellous art on a strip of
according to the highest ideal we are able to canvas, the aspiring parents have embarked
conceive? With this effort, maternity becomes to bring forth a new consciousness in the
truly precious and sacred; indeed with this, matrix of space and time.
we enter the glorious work of the Spirit, and
womanhood rises above animality and its Reference
ordinary instincts, towards real humanity and
its powers (1).” 1. The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother, Volume
2. Cent. ed. Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The true solution to the problem of childhood Trust; 1978, pp. 153-4.
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.
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