Unlike in Occident, mind is considered in Ayurveda an instrument of perception equalled to the senses, so in the vedic system there are six senses and not five as in Occident.
This basic difference is of extraordinary meaning in yoga and self discovery, and was observed by ancient doctors which were themselves yoga practitioners, so that anyway their conclusions are worth a look for any yoga practitioner, especially when reaches the need of a thoroughly understanding of its own mind in order to produce the integration of the instruments of search, integration so wisely envisioned by that ancient realizers.
Later experience with subtle perception would proof the vedic doctors where in the right.
In fact, after the mental ego discovers its limits, and only then, a ray of the inner soul may reach that mind and transform it for its purpose.
In the course of time, which depends only on the opening to that soul at work, all bodily functions are reset, and mind too.
All the super-senses to appear will appear in the mind, because are not productions and transformations of the body but the <natural senses of the soul> of which the physical senses are but a gross reproduction, and they will start to be there while the progressive manifestation of the soul takes place.
Invariably a visionary nature has to depend on such processes, as the Vision is the result of a certain tuning of the mental faculties.
Naturally, a mind which hasn´t realized that inner alchemy, is absolutely unable to understand what a mind infused by its own soul is. And that is the limit of the teaching, as at a certain point there came the need for self-experience. Mere mental knowledge of the process which opens the mind to its inner soul is not equal to effective experience of it, luckily enough, this field is totally free from any unfit mental irruptions.
When things proceed smoothly, to all this transformations which happen at mental level, there is an unperceived progressive establishment, in the heart area, of the soul.
Of course, I´m not theorising or teaching anything, I´m simply offering the result of objective observations, as I just said teaching has its limits.
This is when you get out of theory and you start to need effective experience, then you are in a good position to appreciate my observations.
Somehow we need to know the experiences of other people in this field so to mirror our own experiences, but it is not indispensable, it helps.
Of course, as it seems I have to re-state it again time by time, there is not any personal will in releasing the results of my observations (which I was indipendently keeping for my own purpose of study) but it was as a consequence of a direct request from Sri Aurobindo himself.
I do not have even idea of how they should benefit a reader, I simply answer to that request and do not overcharge my head with speculations.
So if you like you take them if not, just leave them, but they remain objective observations which I lay at His feet.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The conceited mind
Surrender is an arduous task for a conceited mind.
A mind proud of its brilliance has already gone out of the limits it has to impose on itself, it is already walking on thin ice, and the colapse may be at sight, soon or later.
For such mind it is onerous to surrender its brilliance and the sense of mental pride which covers it all, rendering it unpenetrable to the rays of the Grace, and invisible and unperceivable to itself.
I´m not enouncing a spiritual truth, it is simple common sense, but it has been proved by the Rishis of the Ayurvedic method of healing, which says that Air is the last colapse after that of Fire and Water.
Mental pride is in fact considered an ilness in Ayurveda.
As mind and its ilnesses in Ayur. are related with the Air element.
If you light a fire and put water to boil on it, you have the vapour, this secuence is Ayurveda, and you have the three elements perfectly located. Earth and Water are considered as one element, as water needs a container which is earth.
Earth is the pot where you put the water to boil.
No colapse of Air may be produced till a substantial unbalance in the Water humor, which has been preceded by an unbalance of Fire, almost invariably due to unfit and irregular diet, which alters the gastric fire and starts all the process.
Such people should increase the consumption of fresh fruit and row vegetables, and have long solitary walks in nature observing the little life around.Tai Chi would be a useful tool to increase fluidity.
Being Air the last of the secuence Fire-Water-Air, an ilness already reaching Air it has something of a cronic process, and such signals should not be ignored. Cronic air condition are typically accompaigned by adversion to natural parfumes and essence of flowers, which will result irritating because of the concentrated fire of the parfume.
The evaporation of Water due to excess of gastric Fire produces a progressive inner and outer dryness, even mental dryness, which evidently is an unbalanced condition as to be regularly sustained: the colapse is the last resource the body has to drastically limit the Fire.
A mind proud of its brilliance has already gone out of the limits it has to impose on itself, it is already walking on thin ice, and the colapse may be at sight, soon or later.
For such mind it is onerous to surrender its brilliance and the sense of mental pride which covers it all, rendering it unpenetrable to the rays of the Grace, and invisible and unperceivable to itself.
I´m not enouncing a spiritual truth, it is simple common sense, but it has been proved by the Rishis of the Ayurvedic method of healing, which says that Air is the last colapse after that of Fire and Water.
Mental pride is in fact considered an ilness in Ayurveda.
As mind and its ilnesses in Ayur. are related with the Air element.
If you light a fire and put water to boil on it, you have the vapour, this secuence is Ayurveda, and you have the three elements perfectly located. Earth and Water are considered as one element, as water needs a container which is earth.
Earth is the pot where you put the water to boil.
No colapse of Air may be produced till a substantial unbalance in the Water humor, which has been preceded by an unbalance of Fire, almost invariably due to unfit and irregular diet, which alters the gastric fire and starts all the process.
Such people should increase the consumption of fresh fruit and row vegetables, and have long solitary walks in nature observing the little life around.Tai Chi would be a useful tool to increase fluidity.
Being Air the last of the secuence Fire-Water-Air, an ilness already reaching Air it has something of a cronic process, and such signals should not be ignored. Cronic air condition are typically accompaigned by adversion to natural parfumes and essence of flowers, which will result irritating because of the concentrated fire of the parfume.
The evaporation of Water due to excess of gastric Fire produces a progressive inner and outer dryness, even mental dryness, which evidently is an unbalanced condition as to be regularly sustained: the colapse is the last resource the body has to drastically limit the Fire.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The fundamentalist mind
We may easily observe how much separation is created just by pretended spiritually minded people.
The behaviour observable is always the same: after reading a lot on spiritual matters such people starts to syndicate who is wrong and who is right, who has more light or lesser light or no light at all.This people seems not to notice that factual, true spiritual realization do not came by simple gathering information about it. And when one has true spiritual realization, he/she has no need in judge anything or anyone but release them to their own freedom of being either in the right or the wrong.
We know quite well of the Supermental reality as a progressive manifestation going on at this very moment on earth, as we can assume it from the writings from Mother and Sri Aurobindo, assuming too that the process was not interrupted with their desappearence.
But in the conviction of many, the process can´t be interrupted and is going on.
So the worth question: Where is the Supermental Light today?
The most current mistake of precipitous readers is to assume that the Supermental Light is a new light. (of course it is a new light, or does the divine light grow old? it is always new because it is always divine).
It was not the light to be new, they were -its possibilities- that were new.
But Sri Aurobindo "followers" (broadly speaking of course), thought believing the Supermental process in expansion, cannot give any trace of it after Mother and Sri Aurobindo departure.
There is an unexplainable limb in between their lives and our.
We may presume they where not looking toward that light, otherwise they would have seen it.
Are they expecting thousands of reproductions of Sri Aurobindo and Mother populating earth all by a sudden?
It is not them we are waiting for, it is ourselves, and whomever has realized that light and gave it the name he/she choose.
So, Great Masters have been on earth after their(of M.and Sri A.) passing away, but, lost in our self-conceptions, we have failed to recognize, per example, the gigantic stature of a Jidddu Krishamurty, and have been unable to link him with that same light (or was he referring to some other light?...)
And the list would be a long list.
But more recently in history, we could witness such another case of complete misunderstanding and lack of proper means to connect him with that same manifestation of the Supermental Light.
I´m referring to Dharma Sangha case.
As usual, his followers ( only broadly speaking) after receiving his all-inclusive message, have started to make the accustomed differences between "their Master" and "other Masters", the sublimity of "his" message against "other" messages even when, as in the case of Dharma Sangha, was left sublimely clear that his Maitri Consciousness could be no other than the Supermental Consciousness of Sri Aurobindo and the same consciousness Krishnamurty spoke of without attributing to it any name at all. If not Freedom and Universality, perhaps.
After a few attempts, I renounced to call the attention on this point on a number of mailing lists, as I had sadly to recognize it was worthless any farther attempt.
I´m not here to convince anyone, as we each have discrimination to proceed alone.
As we expect integral yoga readers would be more attentive on such cases,
we would have expected a faster reaction from Sri Aurobindo readers about the presence on earth of Dharma Sangha, which so astonishingly recall the boy in the Visions of Mother.
And yet, as it seems, the silence is absolute all along the line, because they are expecting I don´t know which kind of miracle or presence or light, but certainly not this light which even now is acting on earth.
Dharma Sangha followers did not react better: they were unable to understand that the light-consciousness spoken of by D.S., was essentially one with all the other lights. In doing this, they have lost whatever contribution Sri A. Mother and Krishnamurty may have brought to a wider understanding, undervaluing the important meaning of their passage on earth.
So, there is an approach of the mind, of a fundamentalist mind, which is worthless in seizing the process earth is living even now, because of this separative attitude which is the main feature of a fundamentalist mind. A mind which separate and classify in order to understand.
It is only fun, when not sad, that the main danger Mother, Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamurty and now Dharma Sangha have signaled is exactly the fictitious separation the mind can create, and how much all such "followers" are primarily insisting just on this very separativeness.
Such people would often ask: "But when the Supermental Light will transform everything"? But they are not willing to do any effort in changing themselves in order that Light to produce a result, not just in the world around them but in themselves.
The behaviour observable is always the same: after reading a lot on spiritual matters such people starts to syndicate who is wrong and who is right, who has more light or lesser light or no light at all.This people seems not to notice that factual, true spiritual realization do not came by simple gathering information about it. And when one has true spiritual realization, he/she has no need in judge anything or anyone but release them to their own freedom of being either in the right or the wrong.
We know quite well of the Supermental reality as a progressive manifestation going on at this very moment on earth, as we can assume it from the writings from Mother and Sri Aurobindo, assuming too that the process was not interrupted with their desappearence.
But in the conviction of many, the process can´t be interrupted and is going on.
So the worth question: Where is the Supermental Light today?
The most current mistake of precipitous readers is to assume that the Supermental Light is a new light. (of course it is a new light, or does the divine light grow old? it is always new because it is always divine).
It was not the light to be new, they were -its possibilities- that were new.
But Sri Aurobindo "followers" (broadly speaking of course), thought believing the Supermental process in expansion, cannot give any trace of it after Mother and Sri Aurobindo departure.
There is an unexplainable limb in between their lives and our.
We may presume they where not looking toward that light, otherwise they would have seen it.
Are they expecting thousands of reproductions of Sri Aurobindo and Mother populating earth all by a sudden?
It is not them we are waiting for, it is ourselves, and whomever has realized that light and gave it the name he/she choose.
So, Great Masters have been on earth after their(of M.and Sri A.) passing away, but, lost in our self-conceptions, we have failed to recognize, per example, the gigantic stature of a Jidddu Krishamurty, and have been unable to link him with that same light (or was he referring to some other light?...)
And the list would be a long list.
But more recently in history, we could witness such another case of complete misunderstanding and lack of proper means to connect him with that same manifestation of the Supermental Light.
I´m referring to Dharma Sangha case.
As usual, his followers ( only broadly speaking) after receiving his all-inclusive message, have started to make the accustomed differences between "their Master" and "other Masters", the sublimity of "his" message against "other" messages even when, as in the case of Dharma Sangha, was left sublimely clear that his Maitri Consciousness could be no other than the Supermental Consciousness of Sri Aurobindo and the same consciousness Krishnamurty spoke of without attributing to it any name at all. If not Freedom and Universality, perhaps.
After a few attempts, I renounced to call the attention on this point on a number of mailing lists, as I had sadly to recognize it was worthless any farther attempt.
I´m not here to convince anyone, as we each have discrimination to proceed alone.
As we expect integral yoga readers would be more attentive on such cases,
we would have expected a faster reaction from Sri Aurobindo readers about the presence on earth of Dharma Sangha, which so astonishingly recall the boy in the Visions of Mother.
And yet, as it seems, the silence is absolute all along the line, because they are expecting I don´t know which kind of miracle or presence or light, but certainly not this light which even now is acting on earth.
Dharma Sangha followers did not react better: they were unable to understand that the light-consciousness spoken of by D.S., was essentially one with all the other lights. In doing this, they have lost whatever contribution Sri A. Mother and Krishnamurty may have brought to a wider understanding, undervaluing the important meaning of their passage on earth.
So, there is an approach of the mind, of a fundamentalist mind, which is worthless in seizing the process earth is living even now, because of this separative attitude which is the main feature of a fundamentalist mind. A mind which separate and classify in order to understand.
It is only fun, when not sad, that the main danger Mother, Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamurty and now Dharma Sangha have signaled is exactly the fictitious separation the mind can create, and how much all such "followers" are primarily insisting just on this very separativeness.
Such people would often ask: "But when the Supermental Light will transform everything"? But they are not willing to do any effort in changing themselves in order that Light to produce a result, not just in the world around them but in themselves.
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