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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 1, 24th April 2021

And love to rule a realm of strife and hate. dreams of a perfect world, of perfect life, perfect
A mind impotent to reconcile heaven and earth love, are all embedded within our soul. They
And tied to Matter with a thousand bonds, are like seeds cast into the soul by the Eternal
He lifts himself to be a conscious god (1). “ Sower. Each soul is the custodian of these
seeds and its first primary task is to prepare
To imagine that two human beings can the soil, the field of nature into which these
perfectly adapt to each other when each unit seeds must be cast and nurtured. The field is
itself is not fully adapted to its own complexity our nature and the soil is the instrument in
is to think a bit naively. If it seems to happen which these seeds are placed. In most human
sometimes it is because human beings have beings, neither the soil nor the instruments are
learned to put up a nice neat façade. What ready to receive the seeds. Such human beings
we observe is the outer behaviour of people have hardly any idealistic dreams. Their main
and that too for a fraction of time. The larger concern and preoccupation seem to be with
part, the world of thoughts and feelings and their bodily needs and vital desires for food,
motives and intents, all remains buried in a sex and progeny.
large subconscious store, often without even
the conscious awareness of man. Tamas or inertia

Humanity and the three modes of Nature This is the first mode of nature that is mainly
centred around the physical material life and
Yet human beings have learned to adapt a rudimentary vital existence. In the language
through it all and love and live and connect of yoga, it is called the tamasic mode, where
and relate though the law of perfect relation- nature is driven by a kind of blind inertia
ship still eludes them. But before we take of habit. Here love and relationships is
a look into the future possibilities let us understood and limited by physical closeness
see how we connect through each other alone. One is drawn to those who are part of
in our present imperfect mode. From the one’s physical environment and milieu. One
yogic point of view, we need to understand is attracted to physical appearances and outer
two fundamental truths. Though there is features that are similar to one’s physical
an essential and ultimate unity of soul and environment. One lives together by custom
nature, in our present state the soul can and habit until death separates, not because
express itself only through the modes of of love but because of a need to be together
nature and the instruments that she has
designed for the soul’s experience and action.
The soul is bound to nature, so to speak.

The practical implication of this truth is that
we all dream of a perfect harmonious beautiful
existence and co-existence because such is the
dream we inherit from our soul. Our soul is
that portion which remains open to the Divine
even when it is submerged in ignorance. The

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