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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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