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Namah                                             Notes on counselling





        to a disharmony of the being that precipitates  introspected, never discovered their hidden
        stress-linked ailments. Instead of viewing time  potentials which they could have developed
        as a competitor, time could be made a friend!  during retirement. In short, they never knew
                                                 themselves.
        The Mother explains beautifully:
                                                 Thirdly they had expected that they would
        “Men have a feeling that if they are not all  be comfortable with their post-retirement
        the time running about and bursting into fits of  benefits. But life does not run a smooth course
        feverish activity, they are doing nothing…. This  and unexpected catastrophes can rob a lot of
        illusion of action is one of the greatest illusions  assets preserved for a secure future.
        of human nature. It hurts progress because it
        brings on you the necessity of rushing always  It is thus necessary that one must discover
        into some excited movement…              one’s creative potentials and this is a work
                                                 that should not be left to be pursued in
        “Stand back from your action and rise into an  old age. Unless one knows one’s creative
        outlook above these temporal motions; enter  assets one cannot live a fruitful retired life.
        into the consciousness of Eternity. Then only  The creative mind is as important as the
        you will know what true action is (3).”  productive mind.
        To enter into the consciousness of Eternity,
        one has to enter the deeper ranges of the  Work and the pandemic
        being behind the surface personality, access
        the inner being that is in communion with  During the ongoing pandemic (of Covid-19)
        the cosmic consciousness. This inner being  when people are forced to stay indoors, I
        is not supported by the ego but by the soul-  am constantly being flooded with queries
        principle that changes the whole denouement  from people who seem to be frustrated that
        of life and work.                        they cannot work. Adults forget that it is
                                                 not they who cannot go to work are the
        Creativity and isolation                 ones to be affected most. Actually it is the
                                                 children who cannot play with their friends
        I came across another group of people who  and run in the open who suffer more than
        had led a very fruitful work-life and now in  their parents. Play itself is a creative pursuit
        their retirement were feeling bored, isolated  in children who spontaneously develop
        and alienated. There was the particular  enormous variations in games. Deprived
        group of people who had taken voluntary  of creative play they have to attend online
        retirement in their early fifties and seemed  classes conducted by impersonal teachers
        to suffer more. Firstly, they had retired at an  without the emotional support of peer-
        age where they could have given the most  groups — something that is more traumatic
        mature contribution to their work.       than the adults who cannot go their work-
                                                 places.
        Secondly, they never knew what to do with
        life after retirement for they had been so  One should also learn to spend vibrant
        obsessed with work that they had never  periods of ‘no-work’ where one does not


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