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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 4, 15th January 2023

There is a law of resonance. Like attracts like true consciousness can look at the fragment
and our circumstances and our life-course without losing sight of the whole. We may
eventually embody who we are. Our friends have to work through many layers to get
and partners do not crop up by chance. Our down to the root of all our ignorance and
mind (even our subconscious) puts out a the source of all our afflictions. Once we
general invitation and sooner or later this start we cannot stop. Nothing is done until
person will come along We need to use our everything is done. In Integral Yoga, we
intention wisely. What we are invites like start with the tiniest detail but in the
forces to enter. end, you realise, perhaps many years
later, everything has to be re-addressed
Dissatisfaction and transformed and all will have to be
corrected and re-corrected many times
When we look through the warped vision of over and over. Even that detail may have
our shadow, a sense of murky dissatisfaction to be corrected many times over. We heal
will always intrude. Although we try to pin one aspect at a time until one day we can
the cause of dissatisfaction onto the outside, transform the origin of all our malaise. It
it is sourced from deep within us. We always is a painstaking process but if aspiration
have to go back to the true origin, to the is present, one gets swept away by the joy
very root, to expose the origin of the and momentum for inner progress. The
entire dissatisfaction. We need to observe Mother’s image of hewing a trail through
ourselves inside and enquire with our a virgin forest comes to mind. There are
deepest consciousness. We can try to no shortcuts with the integral approach.
‘catch’ the trigger as soon as it comes to our
attention. Catch it with the Light and see what “All that was found must again be sought,
happens! Once we unearth the true cause, Each enemy slain revives,
our work reaches a magnificent conclusion. Each battle for ever is fought and refought
The Knowledge resolves, leaving its seal of Through vistas of fruitless lives (2).”
dynamic peace. It is an unmistakable feeling.
Inviting toxicity

Truly, we secretly invite toxicity into our
lives. We may not do it consciously; indeed,
it is usually done very unconsciously. We
are largely driven by the caprices of our
nature and not many of us are aware of what
really orients and propels our life. Most of
our motivators are concealed. Any hidden
blemish of our nature can open the door for
more gravitational energies to intervene and,
at worst, take complete control. So, there is
This is inner work and, as the practice develops invariably a hidden part of our nature which
progressively, nothing will escape its gaze. The will draw in this darkness.

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