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

and the pipelines that are so important and certain aspects of creation while it remains
indispensable to the functioning of a house. in the dark about others. This is what can
Thoughts build the house: as are our thoughts be likened to the opening or closing of the
so is the house. Poor and narrow thoughts doors. Some doors of the vast and complex
build a poor and narrow house: large and many-tiered mansion we dwell in are already
open-minded thoughts build a large and open. Others are closed. We already have the
open house: dark and ugly thoughts build a doors open to an animal-like nature. There
dark and ugly house: confused and chaotic is much in us that we share in common with
thoughts build a confusing and chaotic the animals except that the development of
house. The reverse is also true. However, the mind gives it a clever expression. Thus,
the functioning of the house, of its various it does not require much of an effort for us
equipment (organ systems), its internal décor to give vent to our primitive instincts and
and arrangement, its external hues, colours impulses like rage, fear, lust, etc. Any time,
and fittings are done by the emotions. If the given the least opportunity, human nature
emotional being in us is dull, the shades are opens its doors to primitive impulses and
dull and the fittings of the house are poor animal-like behaviour. Many corporate
and slow to respond, easily clogged. If the battles, group-clashes are driven by these
emotional being is too impulsive, the wirings herd-instincts to which we give acceptable
often snap due to sudden overload: there is names. Our will easily lends itself in these
now an extra brightness often followed by directions. Yet, just as a nature more proper
gloominess as the fuse snaps. The colours to the animal type in our past, there waits for
are rich but gaudy: the furniture expensive us in the future a God-like nature: an instinct
but in disarray, not in harmony with the rest. for goodness, a love for truth, an appreciation
If the emotions are well-balanced and even- for all that is noble and truly beautiful, an
tempered, then the house functions smoothly aspiration for peace and strength, a cry for
and harmoniously. Our internal organs, wisdom and light, a seeking for Bliss, a
much like people in our outer environment, hunger and thirst for Perfection, Light and
respond best and remain in good shape for Love. Yet this seeking that is mostly seen
long. in adolescence flickers only for a while like
an oil-lamp that has not much fuel left in
it. Soon, as we transit into adulthood, this
flame of the Ideal is covered by heaps of dust
and smoke in the name of utility, practicality,
success, ambition, comfort, desire and all
the rest. Even if somehow, this survives, it
recedes into the background and is veiled.
Finally, we have the ‘will’. In the setting of Or else, we end up leading a double life —
a house, it can be likened to a master-key or one that is inner, intimate and idealistic and
the main switch that can open all the doors another that is outer, pragmatic and practical.
if one rightly applies it. It is here that we However, if we want to make the Ideal real
need to understand something. Human and practicable, we need to open an inner
nature is such that it draws its energies from and higher door so that our efforts can be

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