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ls workshop) Glimpses In Reality…..35
Nitan It is all very confusing.
Shantnu It is not confusing only there is confusion in our thinking minds.
Nitan Then there are other minds too.
Shantnu There is only one mind. But the data stored in it express in six different ways, which are called its conscious levels.
Nitan Please tell me about them.
Shantnu As I have already told, there is only one mind but there are twenty four principles, on which is based the impermanent phenomenon of body, mind and senses. As we may go through the experiences of these principles, the mental growth is registered that way, and the resultant expression of knowledge is graded accordingly in different aspects, which varies from person to person. Though we may go through the same experience but each person reflects differently to the application of these principles. Not two people’s reactions are similar, because these principles create different levels of conscious according to the capability of the awakened knowledge (mind) of each person. These principles are:
5 Sense organs – ear, skin, eye tongue and nose
5 Subtle senses – sound, touch, sight, taste, smell
5 Vital energies I) food (physical body)
ii) Life-breath (physical energy)
iii) Mind (subtle body of lower mind)
iv) Higher mind-intuition
v) Bliss
5 Sheaths – I) breathing
ii) Elimination
iii) Circulation
iv) Digestion
v) Upward flow, which energies the higher centers.
4 Aspects of mind I) lower mind (thinking mind)
ii) Intuition intellect and faculty of discrimination/discernment.
iii) Personal self/ego
iv) Seat of feeling or recollection
These twenty four principles are the agencies, through which all our experiences come and become the basis of our reactions, reflections. These agencies further segregate our mind in six levels or conscious which are:
I) Ordinary mind ii) super mind iii) the higher mind IV) the illuminated mind v) intuition VI) the over-mind
These six levels of the mind are in fact the quality wise storage (in memory) of the impressions of the impermanent world, experienced through the medium of twenty-four agencies.
As the level of our conscious (knowledge) increases we achieve the upper levels of the mind, till finally we merge in bliss and from there we really start our journey.
Nitan But I had thought, bliss was our journey’s end?
Shantnu There is a vital difference between the ultimate bliss that comes after the realization of the last level of the mind and the Reality. The culmination of bliss, as the result of creative world’s realization is but the reflection of Reality.
Nitan Brother Shantnu, what is the best and the simplest way to realize Reality?
Shantnu Inquiry. It is the power of inquiry that unravels the fathoms of wisdom by weeding out the junk out of the mind (memory) and substituting it, with good quality material that promotes its sphere.
Nitan Can we do this, by sitting here.
Shantnu No. While living in the objective world, we have to engage in its activities. Disengaging and living in seclusion is negation of the natural flow of life. Even then there is no chance of escape from activity. Wherever we may go or whatever type of life we may engage in activity does not leave us.
Even parasites, have to perform a minimum amount of activity, necessary for living. The very nature of life-principle is activity as creation of self, was because of activity.
Nitan Then we are a lazy lot and wasting our lives?
Shantnu Neither you are a lazy lot nor a parasite. As I can discern, all of you are highly qualified and professionally well placed persons in life. You are all on vocation and instead of wasting your time on some hill stations; you are engaged in the search of self. Here too you have put yourselves to a very vigorous routine, which is not, at all, wasteful and unproductive. Rather your engagement with solitude here, would bring more efficiency, productivity, in your chosen fields, because when you go back, you would be more sensitive to your surroundings, as you would have acquired a wider vision, the result of your more active but concise consciousness.
Nitan I get your point. Our first conscious effort in life is activity. Not only that, it is the cause of creation. It is understood, activity was the cause of creation and life. But what is its cause?
Shantnu Non-activity.
Nitan How is that? Causeless state can’t be the cause.
Shantnu Before delving into the creational process of the Universe, let us have a look at the nature around us. Out of frozen mountains, mighty rivers are born. Still oceans produce devastating storms, tornadoes and cyclones. High velocity winds, hailstorms, originate from the space. Behind the cause of activity in the frozen mountains, oceans and space are the five elements which are never stable. They are a cause of creation of stillness and activity. The seemingly stillness of the oceans, and space, is an illusion of our ignorance, as nothing in the creative Nature, is still. Entire cosmos are on move, because the elements, those created them, are moving, the particles, which created the elements, are also moving. The moving particles, elements and their creation, the objective world as the result of their (particles) permutation, are thus ever engaged in activity. Activity creates energy. Its (activity) other name is energy. And when it has gone through endless cycles of evolution, having consumed its energies, it reverses back and assumes its original state of non-activity. But when it activates it release energies at a colossal scale and a big-bang ensues. A new cycle of evolution starts and universes take shape all over again.
Tbc….