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

Introspect, Reflect, Observe with which we can build our inner dwelling-
1. Have you noticed that the company of place or private space, if we like, comes in
certain people depresses you and saps your three main varieties.
energy, whereas with others you feel light
and happy as if a load has been taken off The most easily available energy, the cheap
your head? fuel so to speak, which is often available
Can you describe the characteristics of each without paying any price for it, can be called
type without being judgmental? as tamasic. It consists of dullness, inertia,
narrowness, rigidity, confusion, obscurity,
2. Have you noticed the same person, say you refusal to change and a lack of will to progress.
yourself, is sometimes in a state that exudes This material is cheap and crude, tasteless
confidence, calm and cheerfulness, whereas and heavy. The dweller who occupies this
at other times or days, you are dull, confused, house remains in a state of perpetual misery
agitated? and suffers losses one after another and meets
Can you describe objectively the effect it has with failures. Sleep and boredom and crude
had on your functioning and relationships as titillating distractions become his favourite
noted from the responses you receive? pastime. He is soon overcome with illnesses
Can you discover what activities or conditions, and misfortunes, till one day he sinks into the
if any, lead to one state or another? oblivion of death where he wrongly hopes
to find rest and peace.
3. Have you noticed that not only human
beings but also certain environments, the However, Nature, has another fuel as well.
physical atmosphere, weather, seasons, plants, It is better and comes at a little price. This
animals and landscapes have an effect upon material can be described as sharp, quick to
your psychological condition? react, moving, restless, expansive, rapidly
changing in hue and colour. Its price is effort.
Could it be that the reverse is also true, that It fills the dweller in the house with a restless
our psychological condition has an effect urge to explore, create, discover, acquiesce,
not only upon the human world but also the possess and increase. Activity and ambition
world of animals, plants and even what we are its mode of functioning, for once one enters
call as ‘dead matter’? this house one can seldom sit at ease. There is
always something to do, explore or acquire.
The driving fuel Rest comes during exhaustion following
an activity. It is a house where one is ever
The psychological house we have built for dissatisfied. Brief pleasure and joy soon turn
ourselves and inhabit is a many-levelled, pale and one begins to seek something else
multi-tiered mansion. The energy running that again would fade after a brief thrill and
the equipment of this house, just like the momentary satisfaction. The dweller moves
material for building a physical dwelling between rooms of hope and expectation to
place, is provided by Nature. Our first task is rooms of sorrow and despair.
to choose a better material out of a whole list
of things supplied. The psychological stuff The third and superior form of energy is

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