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Namah Editorial

pharmacopeia. time to turn inwards, — without a doubt, but
it has been seen in actual practice that those
The true solution is no more in this or that. We who are inwardly inclined to turn within
have entered a curve and cannot return to the will do so even while engaged in all their
natural simplicity of an earlier humanity. Yet works whereas those who are not so inclined
we can try to harmoniously combine the two will not do it even in the most conducive
approaches in this age of synthesis dawning environments. While it is always good to find
upon man. It is only when we join these two a balance between work and rest and outer
sides of the puzzle, an understanding of the activities and engagement with our own inner
state of health that yoga envisages, promises selves, this extreme condition imposed upon
and has proven since millennia and, the state people is unlikely to help in that direction.
of illness that modern science provides, at If anything it is likely to make them glued
least at the most material level, that we to the TV or the Internet with all the worst
shall draw closer to the answer and the true tendencies, which had been checked due to
solution. being busy with work, emerging from the
hidden parts within us. Boredom, inertia,
Claims, counterclaims and the departed tamas is greatly conducive to the emergence
of all kinds of forces from our subconscient
Another thing that took a big toll during this regions.
pandemic is our humanity. The isolation
advised as a way of life has surely taken a big This is not the only issue of forced indoor
toll upon the flow of life as its current passes staying. It also means that our faith and will is
through the different elements of creation slowly taken over by the state and even hope
tying all into a single ocean with multiple and the ability to think rationally are being
waves. We often hear people saying that it drowned in a surge of numbers and figures
is a wonderful opportunity to connect with impinging on us all the time and from every
family and spend time together or even that side. Once in a while, one feels the breath
this time could be used for going within and of fresh air when there is an out-of-the-box
turn towards higher pursuits. The truth of thinking, wherein one sees that most are
the matter is that the turning towards higher recovering and perhaps the percentage of
things or going within does not happen so recovery is much greater given that every
easily and certainly not if one is forced to stay death is being attributed to Covid, as if
indoors due to fear and panic and in a state all other illnesses have lost their ability to
of utter confusion all around. Force shutting become agents of death.
them inside means that the tremendous energy
that people exchange, the growth that takes Who knows if, by a blind and indiscriminate
place by engaging in meaningful work, is use of vaccination, we are not inadvertently
no more available. pushing the virus towards frequent mutations,
Staying indoors also prevents us from coming turning what may become a wave of epidemic,
in contact with the sun and the breeze and all passing away into a prolonged something?
the varied colours and joys of life that help Add to it the economic fall-out, especially for
us grow. Of course it is best if we can use this the weaker sections, that is likely to snowball

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