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