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

at one unchanging element in one’s being, a
deeper truth, the light of understanding, the
light of awareness, the light of a witnessing
ever-present presence. One sees and knows
and realises for oneself, not in theory, but
in practice that one is that. And in knowing
and identifying oneself as that witnessing
light of consciousness, suffering ceases to
be. It just sublimates. It has done its work. It
disappears like smoke. inevitably puts one on the path of Integral
Yoga, and refinement of sense perceptions
Only now, knowing oneself as that witnessing towards a purer life.
presence, can one begin a new life. A life lived
from a different space, a space which is forever Let us begin the adventure
untouched by the happenings and changes
of life. Only now one can even think of being Shall we begin on this journey then? Not
a master of oneself. Before this it is just all a hiding, not escaping, not suppressing.
fantasy, a day-dream. Even that phase may Because we have done that long enough,
be a necessary stepping-stone in the journey haven’t we, for eons, for lifetimes, for years?
of this evolution of consciousness, which is Can we embark now on this new adventure,
always progressive, never lasting. Only now an adventure of a collaboration with the
can life become a conscious, joyful and ever- Divine/the supreme Truth, and declare
progressive unfoldment of truth, a supreme that yes, we are ready! No matter what the
adventure, full of challenges and a will to go stakes are, we are ready. No matter what
through those challenges in joy and surrender. challenges may lie ahead on the path, it
Now, we can slowly begin to see what thoughts is the only path worth embarking on. For
are serving us well and what thoughts are just what is it to live, if not for this unfolding
a pattern, repeating themselves in a loop and adventure, these so-called failures and the
sticking to the mind and making it heavy and investigation of those failures so that we
burdened. And one can reject those patterns can reach the depths of our being and be
with self-mastery. guided throughout by the light of our own
being?
And now, we can gradually meet our feelings
closely, emotions closely, without being afraid As a mystic Italian monk once said, ‘Thou art
of them, or without being swayed and thrown the Love with which I Love Thee.’
off by them here and there and everywhere.
It seems that only now, can one truly begin The Divine is the Love with which we look
to be sensitive and to feel. It seems that only for the Divine in the depths of our being. We
now one can truly love, one can know what always were and will never be away from
it is to care and what is it to have sensitivity that. The only thing that is required of us
towards oneself and others. This discovery is the effort to wake up to our own sublime

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