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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 1, 24th April 2020

don’t precisely know why. We live in a haze your mind to be calm and quiet. Give yourself
of unanswered questions; nothing is clear. It permission to resolve this problem. Be confident
seems just to follow us around wherever we that the consciousness will do its work. Put
go. It follows us to our workplace; it hovers yourself in the Mother’s hands. Feel the
over us at the family table, it breeds on connection and be conscious of it in your
interchanges among those in close proximity. heart and throughout your body. However,
There is an enormous connection between never lose your connection and poise. This
irritation and emotional attachment. One gets may take some time, so make sure you won’t
irritated when someone doesn’t behave in be disturbed.
a way we expect; one gets irritated when
our counterparts won’t do what we want. Next put all those situations and people on a
It will simmer when the other person won’t cinema screen before your inner eye. See what
fulfil our desires. It picks at faults in others comes to mind. If you premeditate, choose an
and conveniently ignores one’s own. There is everyday scene and not something unusual.
often a feeling of superiority behind irritation. This is not imagination but day-to-day life.
I find it sometimes arising whenever I attempt Watch the screen in a disinterested way, as if
to take the moral high ground. you are viewing actors in a film. Watch your
own reactions. What is happening in your
Wherever there is familiarity it intrudes, body as you do this? Is your body trying to
particularly when that familiarity has become speak to you? Maybe there is some hidden
stale. Certain people have the knack of displeasure or irritation that is articulating
arousing our irritation. There is also an itself through pain. Persistently enquire into
evident connection between irritation and every distortion that appears in your body.
boredom. It breeds on common milieus or Ask it a question and see what happens. If
situations. Because of this, irritation can easily you are truly connected an answer will surely
become a habit. It is a vicious circle: irritation come. Your irritation may be buried deep
becomes habitual and the habit itself induces below the surface. In the integral context,
irritation. It is a sign of vital dissatisfaction, all this has to go.
distaste for acting along familiar tramlines.
Above all, watch your role in the play. Observe
The solution your interactions with the other players. Don’t
rack yourself with guilt and, if necessary, give
These are just some of the instances that are yourself forgiveness. Do not get entangled in
familiar and common to us all. Which of the dramas that you witness. You need to be
these situations particularly provokes you? involved and feel the experience. However, at
What arouses your displeasure? The first step the same time, you have to be detached and
in finding a solution to this affliction is to not lose touch with your soul. If you don’t
become aware of it. So what are the situations feel a connection with your psychic being or
and who are the people who particularly soul, don’t worry, this practice will bring you
affect you? closer to it. Take it as part of your learning.
We are all growing, so feel the presence in
Close your eyes and call the Divine. Allow the heart instead. Observe what is happening

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