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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 1, 24th April 2025

of the mind, vital energy and the body leading All that we are suggesting is, that all these
to new abnormal manifestations we call as and other changes suggest that the human
illness. On the other hand, it is recalibrating consciousness is undergoing transmutation
this new consciousness with the body and at some fundamental level and this change is
mind. What if this new consciousness has impacting not only in the psychological and
new capacities such as a greater mastery spiritual being but the physical being too.
over the human mind and body? When so It is possible that the body consciousness is
many new possibilities are emerging, then becoming subtler, and rigid old parameters,
why not capacities to discover and build a dosages of medication, course of illnesses
new and higher equilibrium of the body, and prognosis are all changing and there is
vital energy and mind with the help of the a need to reevaluate our understanding of
spirit? If so, it will mean a re-evaluation of health and illness as well as the possibilities
all our theories, an unsettling of our norms, of intervention other than pharmacological
a revolutionising of our understanding. Let and surgical. There is a need to rethink,
us remind ourselves that the understanding to challenge our established norms about
and treatment of illness in animals is different health and illness as we see happening in
from their course and management in human other fields.
beings even though the basic biology is the
same. We can limit our speculations here. lest they
begin to seem like prophecies rather than
We need to be clear about one thing. It logical projections, imaginations rather than
is not being suggested that drugs and intuition. The intuitive glimpses of today are
interventions have no effect or role. To say often truths of tomorrow. We shall know as
that would be to swing to another extreme. the time unfolds and passes the final verdict.

Dr. Alok Pandey, an editor of NAMAH and a member of SAIIIHR, is a doctor practising at the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram.

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