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SECTION EIGHT
CENTRES AND PARTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Manas in the Ordinary Psychology and the Integral Yoga —Right Ordering of Different Parts in Yoga
THE terms Manas, etc. belong to the ordinary psychology applied to the surface consciousness. In our Yoga we adopt a different classification —based on the Yogic experience. What answers to this movement of the Manas there would be two separate things—a part of the physical mind communicating with the physical-vital. It receives from the physical senses and transmits to the Buddhi —i.e., to some part or other of the Thought-Mind. It receives back from the Buddhi and transmits idea and will to the organs of sensation and action. All that is indispensable in the ordinary action of the consciousness. But in the ordinary consciousness everything gets mixed up together and there is no clear order or rule. In the Yoga one becomes aware of the different parts and their proper action, and puts each in its place and to its proper action under the control of the higher Consciousness or else under the control of the Divine Power. Afterwards Page-233 all gets surcharged with the spiritual consciousness and there is an automatic right perception and right action of the different parts because they are controlled entirely from above and do not falsify or resist or confuse its dictates.
1933 Harmonisation of Parts by Descent of Truth
I DO not understand the question as put. Each part has to be kept clear from the other and do its own work and each has to get the Truth in it from the psychic or above. The Truth descending from above will more and more harmonise their action, though the perfect harmony can come only when there is the supramental fulfilment.
11-8-1933
IT is evidently the Sahasradala Padma through which the higher intuition, illumined mind and overmind all pass their rays.
24-9-1933 Page-234 The Ajna-chakra and the Third Eye
YES. A third eye does open there (in the centre of the forehead)—it represents the occult vision and the occult power which goes with that vision —it is connected with the Ajna-chakra.
20-4-1933 The Throat Centre of the Physical Mind
IT is the physical mind that acts like that. The centre of the physical mind or externalising mind is in the subtle body in the throat and connected strongly with the speech—but it acts by connection with the brain. All forces that want to cover the consciousness rise up to do it by environing and acting on the mind centres if they can—environing because otherwise the covering is not complete. Page-235
THE brain is only a centre of the physical consciousness. One feels stationed there so long as one dwells in the physical mind or is identified with the body- consciousness, then one receives through the sahasrār into the brain. When one ceases to be stationed in the body, then the brain is not a station but only a passive and silent transmitting channel.
September 1934
THE true thinking mind does not belong to the physical, it is a separate power. The physical mind is that part of the mind which is concerned with the physical things only—it depends on the sense- mind, sees only objects, external actions, draws its ideas from the data given by external things, infers from them only and knows no other Truth until it is enlightened from above.
1-3-1933
THE organ of speech is an instrument of the physical- mental or expressive externalising mind.
May 1935 Page-236 The Throat and the Heart Centres
THE throat centre is the externalising (physical) mind, the heart is the emotional mind and beginning of the higher vital. If the heart centre is dominated by the physical mind to any extent it will necessarily be open to the outer attacks that effect the physical and nervous consciousness. The heart has to be in connection with the psychic and the higher consciousness.
8-8-1933
IT cannot be anything physical but only a subtle physical sensation. The ear is the passage of communion between the inner mind centre and the thought-forces or thought-waves of the universal Nature. It sounds like a sensation of opening and enlarging of this passage.
22-4-1934 Page-237 The Essential Mental Being and the Personal Mind—Control of the Inquiring Tendency
EVERYTHING here that belongs strictly to the earth plane is evolved out of the Inconscient, out of Matter—but the essential mental being exists already, not involved, in the mental plane. It is only the personal mental that is evolved here by something rising out of the Inconscient and developing under a pressure from above. The tendency to inquire and know is in itself good, but it must be kept under control. What is needed for progress in sadhana is gained best by increase of consciousness and experience and of intuitive knowledge. Above the head is the universal or Divine Consciousness and Force. The Kundalini is the latent power asleep in the chakras.
24-3-1933 Page-238 Spiritual Capacity—Psychic Mind and Mental Psychic
SPIRITUAL capacity means simply a natural capacity for true spiritual experience and development. It can be had on any plane, but the natural result is that one gets easily into touch with the Self and the higher planes. Psychic mind and mental psychic are the same thing practically—when there is a movement of the mind in which the psychic influence predominates, it is called the psychic in the mind or the psychic mind.
27-10-1933
THE Chitta is not near the heart—if you mean the substance of the lower consciousness, it has no particular place. All things of this life are there in this stuff of the consciousness but the memory of past lives is wrapped up and involved elsewhere. The heart is the main centre of this consciousness for most men, of course, so you may feel its activities centred in that level.
1933 Page-239
THE heart is the centre of the being and commands the rest, as the psychic being or chaitya purusa is there. It is only in that sense that all flows from it, for it is the psychic being who each time creates a new mind, vital and body for himself.
THE navel is the chief vital centre below the emotional—there is another centre of small vital movements below it,—between the navel and Muladhara. It is the lower vital energy that rushes to the brain and either confuses it and prevents mental self-control or else makes the mind its slave and uses reason to justify the passions.
4-3-1933 Page-240
ABOVE the heart is the vital mind, but the rising of sensation is lower than the emotion, not higher. Sensation is much nearer the physical than emotion. The place of desire is below the heart in the central vital (navel) and in the lower vital, but it moves the emotion and the vital mind.
3-3-1934 The Physical-Vital and the Vital-Physical
THE physical-vital is the being of small desires and greeds, etc.—the vital-physical is the nervous being; they are closely connected together.
THE nerves are distributed all over the body, but. the vital-physical action is concentrated in its origin between the Muladhara and the centre just above it.
29-1-1934 Page-241 The Nerves in the Material and Subtle Body
THE physical nerves are part of the material body but they are extended into the subtle body and there is a connection between the two.
September 1934
THIS is what is called nervous envelope surrounding the body. You are probably seeing the sūkṣma and nervous envelope in one view. The sūkṣma deha contains the sthula deha, only it is not bound to its limitations.
YES, there are nerves in the subtle body. Yes—sheaths is simply a term for bodies, because each is superimposed on the other and acts as a covering and can be cast off. Thus the physical body itself is called the food sheath and its throwing off is what is called death.
19-6-36 Page-242 Direct Knowledge of Different Sheaths
You can only distinguish the different sheaths either by intuition or by experience and then you have established direct knowledge of the different sheaths.
BY the gross physical is meant the earthly and bodily physical—as experienced by the outward sense-mind and senses. But that is not the whole of Matter. There is a subtle physical also with a subtler consciousness in it which can (for instance) go to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things in a not merely mental or vital way. As for mind and vital, they are everywhere—there is an obscure mind and life even in the cells of the body, the stones or in molecules and atoms.
3-3-1933 Page-243 The Outer and the Inner Instrument
THE body is the outer instrument and the mind including the vital is called the inner instrument. But we do not use this phraseology as it is somewhat superficial.
The Outer and the Inner Consciousness
THE outer consciousness is shut up in the body limitation and in the little bit of personal mind and sense dependent on the body—it sees only the outward, sees only things. But the inner consciousness can see behind the thing, it is aware of the play of forces, personal or universal—for it is in conscious touch with the universal action.
18-3-1933 The Play of Forces in the Inner Parts
THE inner parts in everybody remain vulgar or become high according as they are turned to the outward forces of the Ignorance or towards the higher forces from above and the inner impulsion of the psychic. All forces can play there. It is the outer being that is fixed in a certain character, certain tendencies, certain movements.
18-3-1937 Page-244
THE explanation of your experience is plain. The lower being (vital and physical) was receiving an influence (mental light, yellow) from the thinking mind and higher vital which was clearing it of the old habitual lower vital reactions: very often in the sadhana one feels the inner being speaking to the outer or the mind or higher vital speaking to the lower so as to enlighten it.
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