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- 0:02When we study the functioning of the mind, we see that the
- 0:06essential nature is one that can receive sense perceptions
- 0:10analyze organized and then subject, the object.
- 0:15So developed to a process of reasoning, using systematic
- 0:19application of rules of logic. We can also see a process of
- 0:25recall of memory and a process of projection. extrapolation or
- 0:31imagination that moves the understanding from the current
- 0:36status and tries to appreciate probable lines of development
- 0:41based on our past experience and the direction momentum and
- 0:47amplitude of the development we can observe The mind is
- 0:53generally limited by its framework of the language
- 0:57whether verbal or symbolic that it applies in this thought
- 1:01process. When the mind is receptive, when
- 1:06it falls quiet or reflective, it is possible for it to receive
- 1:11intimations from a higher order of Consciousness, which it then
- 1:16tries to codify organize, and explain using the powers native
- 1:22to the mind. This then is the higher mind
- 1:26that tree aurobindo has described.
- 1:29How do you get higher stage of development?
- 1:33The actual process of the Mind gives way to an entirely New
- 1:37Order of working a new way of seeing and understanding and it
- 1:43shifts from the use of reason and logic and stepwise
- 1:48development to one that is based to some degree on the spiritual
- 1:53Power Of Consciousness. This is the first transitional
- 1:58phase from the purely. A mental to a spiritual
- 2:01consciousness and SRI aurobindo terms.
- 2:04This the illumined mine SRI aurobindo observes quote, am I
- 2:11no longer of higher thought but of spiritual light gear.
- 2:17The clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil
- 2:21daylight gives place where subordinates itself to an
- 2:25intense luster A splendor and illumination of the spirit of
- 2:31play of lightnings of spiritual truth, and power brakes, from
- 2:35above, into the Consciousness, and adds to the calm and widen
- 2:40it Enlightenment, and the vast Descent of Peace, which
- 2:44characterize, or accompany the action of the larger conceptual,
- 2:49spiritual principle. A fiery ardour of realization
- 2:56and a rapturous Ecstasy of knowledge.
- 2:59And quote, preference, SRI aurobindo in the mother, our
- 3:05many selves practical yogic psychology introduction.
- 3:10SRI aurobindo on our many selves planes and parts of the being
- 3:15paid Roman 28,