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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 2, 15th July 2024

Before the conversation with Palden and responses to incidents. Could our politicians
members of the BSMA, I’d seen the writings now speak out, to stop violence, acknowledge
of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the plural collateral effects, and the damage war
topic of war and sudden soldier death. does to humans and discarnate beings? Let
Mirra Alfassa, known as The Mother in us work together, invoke the Mother’s Light
Pondicherry, had deeply clairvoyant skills, to offer prayers to honour everyone alive and
and received psychic insight: in spirit, so they become ancestors and not
ghosts. Finally, perhaps it is the women of
“I had seen this during the First Great War, every culture and faith, and the good men
towards its end, when people used to live in who unite powerfully to acknowledge the
trenches and were killed by bombardment. futility of war, and suggest strategies for
They were in perfect health, altogether talking together to negotiate peace.
healthy and in a second, they were thrown
out of their bodies, not conscious that they Acknowledgment
were dead. They did not know they hadn’t
a body anymore…” Thank you to Palden Jenkins and Zelda Hall
for your comments.
She continued:
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