... interpret, one can get from dreams much knowledge of the secrets of our nature and of other-nature. Those [ dreams ] which are formed from subconscient impressions arranged at haphazard (subconscient mind, vital or physical) either have no significance or some meaning which is difficult to find and not very much worth knowing even if it is found. Other dreams are either simply happenings of the... always a deviation from the norm of the physical fact—sometimes this is because of the free play in the vital, but at others it is only a fantasy of formation either in the vital itself or in the subconscient mind which transcribes the incidents of the dream and sometimes alters them by contributions of its own. Page 460 These are dreams of the vital plane—they have probably some reference... probably opened himself in some way, it may be by answering to the man from the street who carried the worst vital atmosphere around him. The figure of the woman was only a form given by his subconscient mind to this force. These forces are around everywhere, not only in one particular room or house, and if one opens the door to them, they come in wherever you are. It would have no importance but for ...
... consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed. This knowledge gives us a starting-point for the true science of Force and... consequences follow. In the first place we may ask whether, since even mental consciousness exists where we see inanimation and inertia, it is not possible that even in material objects a universal subconscient mind is present although unable to act or communicate itself to its surfaces for want of organs. Is the material state an emptiness of consciousness, or is it not rather only a sleep of consciousness—even ...
... consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed. This knowledge gives us a starting-point for the true science of Force and... consequences follow. In the first place we may ask whether, since even mental consciousness exists where we see inanimation and inertia, it is not possible that even in material objects a universal subconscient mind is present although unable to act or communicate itself to its surfaces for want of organs. Is the material state an emptiness of consciousness, or is it not rather only a sleep of consciousness ...
... should great souls come to such sittings? SRI AUROBINDO: What people wonder at is they should come and talk all sorts of rubbish. These things, as far as they are not communications from the subconscient mind, are communications of lower forces, even vital-physical ones. I remember one instance. In Calcutta I went to attend a sitting. The spirit violently objected to my presence and said that it was... Somebody took hold of the sandesh and asked take it from him by force. His hand got so twisted that he cried out in pain. Evidently something was there apart from the communication of his subconscient mind. PURANI: Moore has reviewed the second volume of The Life Divine. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but he hasn't understood it. He wants me to go back to politics for the establishment of the New World ...
... first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body, sometimes also the vital mind or mind proper—prepare the illness by fear or thought of illness. The doctors themselves said that in influenza or cholera in the Far East 90 per cent ...
... impulses (subconscient vital) or sensations. There is a recognisable difference between the two functionings. It [ the memory of things ] is not in the mind alone; it is stored in the subconscient (mind, vital and physical) as impressions—also in the inner being all is present but held back as a store of past experience. All that our consciousness meets in day-to-day experience is ...
... does not communicate with earth—at any rate not in that way. And the ghost or spirit who turns up at séances is not the psychic being. What comes through the medium is a mixture of the medium's subconscient mind (using subconscient in the ordinary, not in the Yogic sense), that of the sitters, vital sheaths left by the departed or perhaps occupied or used by some "spirit", i.e. some vital being, the departed ...
... modernisation and Europeanisation by half! These things are meetings on the vital plane, but very often in the transcription of what happened some details get in that are contributed by the subconscient mind. I rather suspect all that about X was such a contribution. The rest seems all right. The writing on the forehead means of course something that is fixed in you in the vital plane and has to ...
... X 's cannot be expected to realise the secret machinery of the movements of his own consciousness. The vital mind is part of the mind. If mind (mental mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) does not respond to Page 185 outer things, depression is impossible. The self at one end, the stone at the other never get into depression. In between them, the true mind, true vital ...
... or latently automatic, and can only be described as a subconscient or at least partly subconscious or subjacent, an underlying something else akin to consciousness. This is the first sign of a subconscient mind or of a secret consciousness which may even underlie not only our own surface being, but the whole cosmic operation and its apparently inconscient functioning and driven interactions, its purposeless ...
... accomplishment, but of travail and inception. What will be born of this dim travail, these shapeless or half-shaped beginnings, is no doubt already decided in the secret spirit of the age and in the subconscient mind of the people. Behind the waverings and strivings of our twilit surface minds the soul of India knows no doubt what it intends and is moving us to great fulfilments. But it is well also for us ...
... Force, — which demonstrate that (i) behind the surface consciousness in which we are awake in our waking state, there is a subliminal consciousness, (ii) there is, below our waking state, the subconscient mind which has at its depth totally unconscious rock from which the strivings of the subconscious mind seem to emerge, (iii) above our surface consciousness, there are greater and higher heights ...
... massed together." This triple resistance brought into full play the three most obstinate and insistent minds at work in human nature: the physical mind, the mechanical mind and the subconscient mind. They often worked in conjunction, sometimes in two's and sometimes singly, but in such a powerful and complicated way that it was a problem to find out which one. or two, of the three were in ...
... significance. If I could study properly, I think it would be good not only for my mental development but also for my sadhana, for it would divert my consciousness from the lower or subconscient mind. Yes. Study is of importance only if you study in the right way with the turn for knowledge and mental discipline. What do you think would be good for me to study ...
... there are sometimes phenomena which point to the intervention of beings of another plane, not always or often of a high order, the mass of such writings comes from a dramatizing element in the subconscient mind; sometimes a brilliant vein in the subliminal is struck and then predictions of the future and statements of things known in the present and past come up, but otherwise these writings have not ...
... physical part. LOSS OF MEMORY IN SADHANA In which part of the mind is the memory of everything stored? It is not in the mind alone; it is stored in the subconscient (mind, vital and physical) as impressions — also in the inner being all is present but held back as a store of past experience. If one shuts out emotions, doesn't one become abs ...
... And the same thought substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g. thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreoever there is a stuff of mind in each man and the incoming thought uses that for shaping itself ...
... consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind Page 331 which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed. 18 Most people associate con ...
... moving when they wake and following back the thread of the dreams. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1494-95 Those dreams which are formed from subconscient impressions arranged at haphazard (subconscient mind, vital or physical) either have no significance or some meaning which is difficult to find and not very much worth knowing even if it is found. Other dreams are either simply happenings of the ...
... consequences follow. In the first place we may ask whether, since even mental consciousness exists where we see inanimation and inertia, it is not possible that even in material objects a universal subconscient mind is present although unable to act or communicate itself to its surfaces for want of organs. Is the material state an emptiness of consciousness, or is it not rather only a sleep of consciousness ...
... Even the same thought-substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g. thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover there is a stuff of mind in each man and the incoming thought uses that for shaping itself or ...
... apt to fall silent or abate most of its activity and, when it does, very often either this vital mind can rush in, if one is not on one's guard, or else a kind of mechanical physical or random subconscient mind can begin to come up and act; these are the chief disturbers of the silence. Or else the lower vital mind can try to disturb; that brings up the ego and passions and their play. All these are ...
... awareness able to communicate with the universal and with what is above them, able also to bring to bear their power on the whole range of the being, on the Page 970 submental, on the subconscient mind, on the subconscient life, even on the subconscience of the body: they can, though not wholly enlighten, yet to some extent open, penetrate, work upon the fundamental Inconscience. The spiritual ...
... Karmic justice amidst the uncertainties of the complex measures of the universe. It works really not on the mind and will of man—except to some degree in a subtle and imperfect fashion on the subconscient mind—but outside him as a partial check and regulator helping to maintain the balance of the returns of energy and the life purposes of the world-spirit. Its action is like that of the first line of ...
... man and animal, exists also in the plant with a fundamental identity; not only so, but it is akin to us by a sort of nervous psychology which amounts to the existence of a suppressed mind. A subconscient mind in the plant, it is now not unreasonable to suggest,—but is it not at the summits of plant experience only half subconscious?—becomes conscient in the animal body. When we go lower down, we find ...
... Even the same thought-substance can take higher or lower vibrations according to the plane of consciousness through which the thoughts come in (e.g., thinking mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) or the power of consciousness which catches them and pushes them into one man or another. Moreover there is a stuff of mind in each man and the incoming thought uses that for shaping itself or ...
... that 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. on Thursday is Rāhukāl. 1 It is always better NOT to remember such superstitions. It is the suggestion that acts in these cases—most often a suggestion in the subconscient mind; but it is made stronger by becoming conscious. 9 June 1932 Four bats were found in the north end of the west roofbeam. Two of them got drenched with solignum. 2 What a pity ...
... modernisation and Europeanisation by half! These things are meetings in the vital plane, but very often in the transcription of what happened some details get in that are contributed by the subconscient mind ... The writing on the forehead means of course something that is fixed in you in the vital plane and has to come out hereafter in the physical consciousness. By milk-tea and butter I meant ...
... depressed? It is only when the mind creates outer reasons that vital depression is possible? The vital mind is part of the vital. If the mind (mental mind, vital mind, physical mind, subconscient mind) does not respond to outer things, depression is impossible. The self at one end, the stone at the other never get into depression. In between, the true mind, true vital, true physical consciousness ...
... though not accurate, perhaps. Dreams of this kind in the vital plane are very common. They correspond to something that has happened there, but the forms are often partly supplied by the subconscient mind and partly true. The "supplied forms" have then to be taken as symbolic, while the rest actually happened in that plane. N's falling down etc. and the drawing of the screen seem to be of the supplied ...
... first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body; sometimes also the vital mind or mind proper—prepare the illness by fear or thought of illness. The doctors themselves said that in influenza or cholera in the Far East 90 percent ...
... Viola, by any means, yet whom my friend Sudha found very sweet! But he didn't turn up yesterday! And it was raining cats and dogs, so I could not go out and find a servant. What to do? So my subconscient mind started working, and the blood vessels in my temples began throbbing. What to do ? - all the vessels were now washed, the room was cleaned, but still the questions: What should I do? Where shall ...
... remains neutral and lets himself go. It is said that through this kind of writing are brought down spirits or bodiless entities. The savants of the West may say that all this is a play of subconscient mind as the waking Page 394 mind then abdicates. But that is a matter for argument. Let me here describe what actually happened. Sri Aurobindo showed to us, or rather made us hear ...
... remains neutral and lets himself go. It is said that through this kind of writing are brought down spirits or bodiless entities. The Western savant may say that all this is a play of the subconscient mind as the waking mind then abdicates. But that is a matter for argument. Let me here describe what actually happened. Sri Aurobindo showed us, or rather made us hear, not examples of automatic ...
... tremendous power. It is life infinitely divided into material particles giving rise to materiality as a first expression of life. The second is that in which it moves toward conscious mind. This is subconscient mind, if you like to call it. Mind—intelligence and will— is subconscient in the atom, but is moving toward conscious mind. And in the third stage, it evolves mind, conscious mind. Now in this movement ...
... somnambulism. At first she has a nightmare and she shrinks from the very thought of embarking upon the adventure of "The insoluble mystery of birth and the tardy process of mortality". Even the subconscient mind of this Night is not willing to take up the "mystery of birth" and with it the slow and tedious process of evolution—"the process of mortality". The mind of this Night wanted even to end itself ...
... the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will not be able to do anything Page 160 to you. The envelope pierced, they attack the subconscient mind in the body; sometimes also the vital mind or mind proper — prepare the illness by fear or thought of illness. The doctors themselves said that in influenza or cholera in the Far East ninety percent ...
... part of the being opens to them? The human like the animal mind lives largely in impressions rising up from the subconscient. MIND'S ENLIGHTENMENT On what level can imagination find out the Truth? What Truth? Imagination is a power of the mind and supplies the mind with formations which may Page 25 be true or not... the Chitta and the Subconscient? The same as with any part of the being — there is a subconscient part of the Chitta which keeps the past impressions of things and sends up forms of them to the consciousness in dream or else keeps the habit of old movements and sends up these whenever it finds an opportunity. Is it the Chitta which supplies our mechanical mind with the recurrent... is either the mind or the psychic that controls the vital or both the mind and the psychic together." Why should the psychic control the vital together with the mind? I thought, the psychic being was sufficiently powerful. Why should the mind be left out of the action? How is the mind to be spiritualised if the psychic refuses all association with it? Or what is the mind there for if it ...
... That is good. Today, during the work I found that the separation from and control over the Prakriti would not come by fighting with the thoughts. The mechanical and the subconscient minds have great power. The Purusha tried to detach itself and bring the Prakriti too to the detachment by a quiet separation from the thoughts. So far as it went, it promised to bring about a complete... been advised to have some dispersion of mind in order to get over difficulties of sadhana. Dispersion and sadhana are two things that cannot go together. In sadhana one has to have a control over the mind and all its actions; in dispersion one is on the contrary controlled and run away with by the mind and unable to keep it to its subject. If the mind is to be always dispersed, then you can't... read a piece of philosophy or yogic literature I feel like falling into meditation. Is it not a sign of laziness in the mind? Page 9 It is quite natural to want to meditate while reading Yogic literature - that is not the laziness. The laziness of the mind consists in not meditating, when the consciousness wants to do so. How is it that 1 can concentrate well ...
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