A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
June 15, 2023

The Subconscient and the Inconscient

The Subconscient and the Inconscient

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, pp.xxvi-xxvii


This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/the-subconscient-and-the-inconscient/

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We are conscious and aware of
forces and energies that operate

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within a certain specified
range.

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Anything that falls outside that
range whether above or below

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remains unseen and unknown to
us?

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Even if the forces operative in
those Superior, or inferior,

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ranges impact, our thoughts,
feelings, perceptions, and life

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Energies.
We recognize that many

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operations of our lives.
Our internal organs are

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basically self-regulating
without conscious control or

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intervention by our self aware
mental Consciousness.

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We do not for instance, regulate
consciously, the oxygen uptake

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into the blood or its
dissemination into the cells of

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the body.
Nor do we regulate consciously,

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the energy production functions
of the cells Beyond these

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organic functions.
However, there are also levels

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of consciousness that store up
Impressions and encapsulate

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reactions without conscious
mental control.

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Either various stimuli can then
trigger responses from these

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levels that may surprise us with
their suddenness and intensity

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Sometimes these subconscious
elements arise in the state of

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dreaming, and we can get a brief
view into what is hidden in

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those layers of our being for
the most part.

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However, they remain obscure and
impact us without are

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consciously.
Being aware of what is there and

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what they are actually able to
effectuate in our lives and

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reactions.
We tend to also believe that

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there is no consciousness in
matter.

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Yet the only way for
Consciousness to appear out of

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matter, is for it to evolve,
they're from.

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And thus, we can understand that
Consciousness is encoded

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involved in material nature,
just as the tree is encoded in

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the purely material seed from
which it develops.

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Dr. Dalal writes quote, the
subconscious in is what is below

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the mind and conscious life.
Just as the subliminal is what

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is behind the outer
Consciousness.

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Whereas the subliminal is an
inner and larger Consciousness

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compared to the surface
Consciousness, the subconscious

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is a Nether and inferior
diminished consciousness.

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SRI aurobindo observes quote,
the sub-continent covers, the

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purely physical and vital
elements of our constitution, of

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bodily being unmeant alized,
unobserved by the Mind

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uncontrolled by it, in their
action.

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It can be held to include the
dumb occult Consciousness

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Dynamic, but not sent by us,
which operates in the cells and

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nerves and all the Boreal stuff
and adjust their life process

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and automatic responses.
It covers also.

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Those lowest functionings of
submerged since mind, which are

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more operative in the animal and
plant life. in our Evolution, we

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have over past the need of any
large organized action of this

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element but it remains submerged
and obscure Lee at work below,

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our conscious nature this
obscure activity extends to a

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hidden and hooded mental
substratum into which past

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Impressions and all that is
rejected from the surface mind

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sink and remain there dormant
and can surge up in sleep or in

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any absence of the mind, taking
dream forms forms of mechanical,

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mind action or suggestion forms
of automatic vital reaction or

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impulse forms of physical,
abnormality, or nervous,

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perturbance forms of morbidity,
disease, unbalanced, Out of the

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subconscious.
We bring ordinarily so much to

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the surface as our waking since
mind, and intelligence need for

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their purpose in.
So bringing them up, we are not

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aware of their nature origin,
operation and do not apprehend

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them in their own values, but by
a translation into the values of

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our, waking human sense and
intelligence, but the risings of

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the subconscious, it's a Effects
upon the mind and body are

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mostly automatic uncalled for
and involuntary.

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For we have no knowledge and
therefore no control of the sub

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content.
Dr. Dalal continues, quote below

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the subconscient is the
incontinent, the nethermost

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plane of Consciousness.
It is not really devoid of

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Consciousness as the term might
imply, but a level of

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Consciousness, which represents
a total involution of

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Consciousness, the inverse
reproduction of the Supreme

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super conscience as SRI
aurobindo describes it.

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Evolution begins from the in
content.

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The first emergence to evolve
from it being matter and quote,

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reference SRI aurobindo, and the
mother, our many shelves,

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practical yogic psychology
introduction.

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SRI aurobindo on our many lives
planes and parts of the being

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Pages.
Roman 26 to 27, Evolution begins

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from the in content.
The first emergence to evolve

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from it being matter and quote,
reference SRI aurobindo, and the

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mother, our many shelves,
practical yogic psychology

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introduction.
SRI aurobindo on our many lives

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planes and parts of the being
Pages.

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Roman 26 to 27,