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to deal with centrifugal disruptions. As Sri The therapist also has to accommodate
Aurobindo quipped: intuitive healing insights without disregarding
an evidence-based rationalistic approach.
“Diffused, force fulfils the free workings This needs a growth of the therapist’s con-
of Nature and is the servant of life but also of sciousness along an evolutionary trajectory,
discord and struggle; concentrated, it becomes where one traverses supra-cognitive planes
the guarantee of organisation and the bond of to reach the intuitive plane at higher echelons
order (4).” of Reality. One needs to surpass but not
abandon rationality to access supra-rational
The therapist needs a more individualistic realms. In this integralise paradigm, therapy
approach where therapy needs to be per se becomes a veritable yoga.
elevated to a healing art. The therapist
needs to learn detachment while not References
ceasing to be loving and compassionate.
This detachment does not mean a casual 1. Toynbee A, Ikeda D, (ed. Gage RL). Choose Life.
attitude where one is oblivious of A Dialogue. Indian ed. Delhi: Oxford University
the patient’s suffering. Rather, it is a Press; 1987, p. 19.
detachment carried out at the level of the
inner being where one can be free from 2. Ibid., p. 89
the conflicts of the surface personality and
yet carry the patient’s suffering in his or 3. Ibid.
her consciousness to be dealt in a novel
and innovative way. Ultimately it is at a 4. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
yet deeper soul-level that the detachment Volume 25. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
becomes forceful and constructive. Trust; 1997, p..484.

— Dr. Soumitra Basu

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