| Due to new thoughts the old ones change. If | | | | Brahmin/ Shudra, pure hearted /sinner, good |
| someone understands some aspect in a wrong | | | | fortuned / ill fated, man/ woman, foolish |
| manner, his error can be warded off by | | | | wise, lowly /great, living being/ God, bound/ |
| showing him right thinking via logic, proof | | | | free etc. then he has that type of an Ego. |
| and examples. If such a person is not | | | | Means to limit the cosmic soul to one's |
| extremely vile behaved, indolent, incited or | | | | limited body of name and form called "I". |
| arrogant, it is relatively easy to help him | | | | There are many classes and sub-classes of the |
| discard wrong thinking. Ordinarily when one | | | | mind, intellect, psyche and ego. Its |
| realizes the truth, false beliefs disappear | | | | characteristic and area of activities too is |
| from one's thinking. Of course it is an | | | | varied and will not be described by us in |
| entirely different story if someone persists | | | | this chapter. Over here a brief description |
| in clinging to wrong beliefs due to selfish | | | | had to be given because it will be useful for |
| gains or maintaining one's false image. Yet | | | | the readers of this book to overcome vile |
| in the arena of beliefs and faith, one's | | | | psychic imprints. |
| thoughts definitely get transformed. It is | | | | |
| not very difficult to destroy ignorance with | | | | Just as the mind and intellect constitute a |
| the aid of true wisdom. | | | | pair, so does the psyche and ego form a pair. |
| | | | Various hopes and desires dwell in the mind |
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| PR 4) and (Google 5) | | | | desire should be pursued and which one should |
| | | | be suppressed. The intellect is well aware |
| On the other hand as far as nature, | | | | of this and hence keeping in mind culture, |
| inclinations, desires, sentiments and | | | | social ethics, social norms, righteousness, |
| character are concerned, they cannot be | | | | duty etc it suppresses lowly desires. The |
| ordinarily changed. Wherever it sticks it | | | | intellect pursues only those desires that |
| does not move easily. Because man gets a | | | | result in activities that are pure in nature. |
| human body, after straying in bodies of | | | | In this manner both the mind and intellect |
| innumerable species like animals, birds, | | | | work in tandem in our brain. |
| bacteria etc. his psyche has intense imprints | | | | |
| that are animalistic in nature. His psyche | | | | In the subtle mind it is the pair of the ego |
| overflows with various thought waves. No | | | | and psyche that functions in tandem. |
| doubt changes do take place in these thoughts | | | | Depending on what class and level, a living |
| yet there is no major influence on it. When | | | | being believes him self/ her self to be |
| man hears sacred discourses, when he reads | | | | accordingly that class and level of past |
| elevating literature and when he seriously | | | | imprints get activated and nourished in the |
| studies the nature of the soul, he easily | | | | psyche. When a person believes himself to be |
| understands what is good or detrimental for | | | | a drunkard, sinner, butcher, a member of the |
| him. He deeply realizes his errors, bad | | | | downtrodden class of society, his ego forces |
| habits and weaknesses. On the intellectual | | | | the psyche to abound with those very types of |
| front, he thinks and desires that these | | | | desires. All the qualities, actions, nature |
| errors be destroyed. Many a times he | | | | etc. of these type of people get rooted in |
| criticizes himself. Yet he cannot separate | | | | their psyche. If their ego renounces the |
| himself from his vile activities gathered | | | | attitude of "I am a drunkard or I am a |
| from past innumerable births alongwith his | | | | sinner" and instead works for world welfare |
| bad habits. | | | | with the characteristics of a true saint, |
| | | | very soon his past habits, desires, hopes get |
| After reading the above lines one should not | | | | transformed and can become just what he hopes |
| wrongly conclude that contemplation goes in | | | | to become. |
| vain and that it does not aid in overcoming | | | | |
| vile psychic imprints. Instead we are | | | | Apart from intense spiritual practices there |
| trying to say that good wishes of an ordinary | | | | is no other way to contact our limited/ |
| will power take a relatively longer time to | | | | illusory ego. The aim of spiritual practise |
| purify one's psyche. Its speed is very slow | | | | is to contact the ego by rendering the mind |
| and many a times it encounters despair and | | | | and intellect in a state of quietitude, |
| hopelessness. And yet if good wishes are | | | | unconsciousness and sleep-like. It directly |
| imbibed continuously, definitely after a | | | | influences the ego. The belief "I am the |
| certain length of time one overcomes vile | | | | substratum of Brahman energy, Gayatri - the |
| psychic imprints. The teachers of Spiritual | | | | manifestation of divinity is pervading every |
| Science never wish that such a desirable | | | | pore of my being, I am becoming Brahman (God) |
| activity is allowed to languish for a long | | | | by imbibing it in the greatest measure", |
| time span. Here all of them via intense | | | | helps our limited ego go beyond animalistic |
| seriousness, subtle hindsight and mental | | | | tendencies and enter realms of divinity. |
| focus have clearly analysed the animalistic | | | | Beliefs are not something ordinary. The |
| imprints in man's psyche. These great | | | | Bhagwad Geeta says - if one thinks (has |
| teachers have concluded that deeper than the | | | | faith) that he is some particular thing, he |
| level of the surface of the mind, where there | | | | becomes that thing. Gayatri worship helps |
| are thought vibrations, lies the | | | | spiritual aspirants imbibe a divine ego. His |
| sub-conscious mind where the psychic imprints | | | | thought vibrations are of the level of his |
| are deeply embedded in an intense manner. | | | | self-belief. One will obviously see those |
| | | | very types of habits, desires, inclinations, |
| Just as when you start digging a well, layers | | | | activities etc. in him. Definitely one will |
| of different varieties of mud emerge forth, | | | | perceive those very desires, habits and |
| in the same way the human psyche has many | | | | activities in a person who abounds with |
| layers and their function, characteristic and | | | | divinity. This spiritual practise transforms |
| area varies. The upper 2 layers are 1) mind | | | | man's psyche. That spiritual discourse heard |
| and 2) intellect. The mind abounds in | | | | by an individual alongwith reading spiritual |
| desires, aspirations, wishes etc. The | | | | literature which did not give much success, |
| function of the intellect is to contemplate, | | | | can be easily be attained via spiritual |
| find solutions and come to an apt decision. | | | | practices. This is the prime secret of |
| Both these layers are in close contact with | | | | spiritual practices. |
| mankind and are demarcated as the gross mind. | | | | |
| Based on understanding and change of | | | | Most definitely it is the Super Mental area |
| circumstances, it is easy to change the gross | | | | of our psyche which is apt for Divine Powers |
| mind. | | | | to manifest. An airplane lands only on an |
| | | | aerodrame. Hence Divine Powers of God |
| Deeper than this gross mind is the layer of | | | | manifest only in the Super-Mental area of the |
| the subtle mind. Its 2 major areas are 1) | | | | psyche of living beings. If via spiritual |
| psyche and 2) ego. The psyche is made up of | | | | practices it is not sanctified, these very |
| imprints, habits, likes, character, qualities | | | | subtle Divine Powers cannot manifest over |
| etc. Ego means the sense of limited "I" and | | | | there. Hence spiritual practices (Sadhana) |
| hence also means opinion about oneself. If a | | | | convert the high Super Mental area into an |
| person thinks himself to be rich/poor, | | | | apt aerodrome where Divine Powers manifest. |