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Namah Notes on counselling

one’s participation in social media. The may occur which in the individual level can
truly anonymous, on the other hand, are be pre-psychotic states and at the collective
free from this turmoil, they keep themselves level a universal chaos or war. Many artists
neutral and non-committal, they master the and creative scientists discover a state of
action of holding the consciousness in the great irritability or depressive or destructive
correct way. mood before they write or paint or discover
something (4). It is an energy-potential that
Ancient disputants needs deft handling. The artist deals with it
by giving it a creative expression. However,
Besides, it is also important to acknowledge the truly anonymous would in silence deal
that in the world one has to face the quartet with this situation by avoiding something
of suffering, falsehood, ignorance and death. undesirable or by diluting its effects.
They are the ancient revellers in time, and
traversing life means one has to accept them References
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Success does not come alone but is accom- 2. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother.
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The truly anonymous can learn to bear this
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Psychologically, the Inconscience holds the Trust; 1997, p. 10.
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allowed to accumulate, then, catastrophes pp. 178-79.

Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of
psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.

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