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

I may have written many papers or articles the insight to look at this problem that I
or given even speeches about the good things was faced with! And that would not be
in life and yes, all of that may have a place an understatement at all. Who knows?
and purpose, and yet behind the curtains the
Real Work remains to be done, I am yet not But I did wonder about this and so turned
a master of the being that I call and claim to towards taking better care and charge
be myself. of my own mind and feelings and not
just be manipulated by them. So far, I
How did we reach here? Where to start from? had never been taught how to keep the
Is there hope? mind and heart simple, neat and clean.
So, I started from where I was, as I was
How did we reach here? convinced that it was the need of the hour.

Our educational system for quite some Where to start from?
time, has mostly been outward-looking and
has mostly ignored the care and discipline Of course, we start from wherever we are.
of the very mind that looks at things. No matter how bad the situation may look
Subjective knowledge, discipline and from an outside superficial appearance,
understanding have been compromised there is always the hope of turning
and much importance has been given towards light from any direction or any
over many years now to the objects of depth. When we become conscious of our
knowledge. We haven’t cared to properly loopy patterns of thoughts and feelings
look after this instrument (the mind), and when we begin to be a witness to the
which we so widely and generously use, storylines being repeated in our heads, we
to attain all kinds of information from notice that there is a problem, something
outside, of outside things. is not okay, there are invisible grooves
in which the thought-stream goes on
When I was doing my PhD at the and on; and that I have a choice not to
University of Zurich, and struggling let the thoughts enter the same grooves
with my own thoughts and emotions, at again and again. This noticing, this
one point of time I was so disillusioned awareness, or consciousness or conscious
by the education I had experienced up to discernment through which I become
then, that I asked myself, what had that conscious or aware of the storyline, of
education of all these subjects given me, the drama in my head and heart, is the
when I don’t even know how to deal with first step. It is the Light that will lead us
my own wild mind? I could not recollect ahead in to the right direction out of the
most of the content of the subjects I shackles of this vicious loop.
studied at school, and unfortunately,
I had no understanding either, of this And yes, there is hope. If I can be conscious
very mind with which I thought. One of my thoughts and patterns and feelings
can perhaps say that that my education and in that consciousness begin to take
at around 14-15 years gave me at least a step back from a total identification

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