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Namah Vol. 33, Issue 2, 15th July 2025

A Little Exercise that make our house among others. Before
we proceed further on our journey, try a little
1. Take stock of all the ‘things’ in your house. exercise:
2. Project them as if onto a cinema screen.
3. See what you wish to keep and what you 1. Look how many things in your house have
wish to discard. been simply accepted blindly, passed on
4. Do you wish to add certain things you by others with whom we grew up?
have seen in other houses? Which ones? 2. How many things have we consciously
chosen and can say this truly belongs to
Reorganising our life me because I wanted it to be here?
3. Did you want jealousy, fear, anger, hatred,
Many of us suffer from jealousy when others etc., inside your house? If so, why? If
are appreciated. But jealousy ends up harming not, how did these things get inside?
both, — the subject who harbours it and the From where and through whom did they
object towards whom it is directed. It is come?
like a fire that is crude and unsafe. The first 4. Do you still wish to keep them with you,
danger is to the person who holds it in his inside your house?
house. It raises undue heat and burns the
curtains and furniture. The right response Bringing order in your house
instead, when we see something beautiful in
others, is to try and cultivate it in ourselves
and that can only begin if we learn to truly
appreciate them and their worth in others.
But in reality, what prevents us from truly
appreciating qualities in others, is an excess
of self-referential thinking. We judge people
only with reference to ourselves and that
too only with reference to our desires. We
appreciate those who either praise us or keep
saying ‘yes’ to all our demands and opinions.
The result is, that our house remains small
and narrow, built up of a few fixed opinions
and beliefs. Every time someone contradicts
us we have a chance to make our house wider
by making room for other ways of thought,
other ways of looking at the problem. And Our psychological house is in a real mess, but
this applies to everything, from the way we we seldom notice it, even though it brings
dress and what we eat, the language we untold suffering to us. Jealousy is not the
speak, the customs we are familiar with, only toxic by-product our mind generates.
to the beliefs and attitudes we inherit, the There are others, some, more serious, some
thoughts and feelings which we attach more less. Thus, for instance, we harbour within
importance than others. These are the things us a most dangerous enemy who would not

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