Illumined Mind
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pg. xxviii-xxix This podcast also available as a blog post https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/illumined-mind/
0:02 When we study the functioning of the mind, we see that the essential nature is one that can receive sense perceptions analyze organized and then subject, the object. So developed to a process of reasoning, using systematic application of rules of logic. We can also see a process of recall of memory and a process of projection. extrapolation or imagination that moves the understanding from the current status and tries to appreciate probable lines of development based on our past experience and the direction momentum and amplitude of the development we can observe The mind is generally limited by its framework of the language whether verbal or symbolic that it applies in this thought process. When the mind is receptive, when it falls quiet or reflective, it is possible for it to receive intimations from a higher order of Consciousness, which it then tries to codify organize, and explain using the powers native to the mind. This then is the higher mind that tree aurobindo has described.
1:29 How do you get higher stage of development? The actual process of the Mind gives way to an entirely New Order of working a new way of seeing and understanding and it shifts from the use of reason and logic and stepwise development to one that is based to some degree on the spiritual Power Of Consciousness. This is the first transitional phase from the purely. A mental to a spiritual consciousness and SRI aurobindo terms. This the illumined mine SRI aurobindo observes quote, am I no longer of higher thought but of spiritual light gear.
2:17 The clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight gives place where subordinates itself to an intense luster A splendor and illumination of the spirit of play of lightnings of spiritual truth, and power brakes, from above, into the Consciousness, and adds to the calm and widen it Enlightenment, and the vast Descent of Peace, which characterize, or accompany the action of the larger conceptual, spiritual principle. A fiery ardour of realization and a rapturous Ecstasy of knowledge.
2:59 And quote, preference, SRI aurobindo in the mother, our many selves practical yogic psychology introduction. SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being paid Roman 28,
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