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The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we begin to recognize the inherent power of the mind,
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  independent of any reliance on the physical senses and the
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  nerve pathways that link them to the mind, the question then
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  arises as to how to become aware of, bring forward and train the
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  use of these powers that are currently subliminal within the
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  human being. Yogic practitioners have
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  described the inner psychology and psychological landscape and
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  have identified the basic mind or manas as well as the higher
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  intellect, buddhi. They have also traced the
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  pathways of interaction between mind and our environment and
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  they have recognized that there is a basic mind stuff, chitta,
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  which vibrates with the incoming impressions and becomes agitated
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  as waves in a churning sea when it attaches to, following and
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  becoming involved with the source of those impressions, or
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  at least the impact those impressions have.
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  They have developed a number of mechanisms to bring the chita to
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  a state of quiescence, including various forms of meditation,
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  breath control, and non attachment to thought.
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  When the mind comes to a state of silence and is in a state of
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  receptivity, it can experience elements of its inherent nature
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  and explore subliminal powers of mind that it otherwise does not
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  tap into when it is fully engaged with the surface
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  impressions. We can also expect that as the
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  pressure of the next evolutionary stage of the
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  expression of consciousness makes itself felt, that powers
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  that are currently subliminal to the action of our mental mode of
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  being will come to the surface, grow and mature, and a stable,
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  established powers that become part of the normal action of
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  mind. Shrioro Bindu observes quote.
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  Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch are really properties of
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  the mind, not of the body. But the physical mind which we
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  ordinarily use, limits itself to a translation into sense of so
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  much of the outer impacts as it receives through the nervous
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  system and the physical organs. But the inner manas has also a
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  subtle sight hearing power of contact of its own, which is not
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  dependent on the physical organs.
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  And it has, moreover, a power not only of direct communication
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  of mind with object, leading, even at a high pitch of action,
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  to a sense of the contents of an object within or beyond the
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  physical range, but direct communication also of mind with
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  mind. Mind is able, too to alter,
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  modify, inhibit the incidence, values, intensities of sense,
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  impacts these powers of the mind we do not ordinarily use or
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  develop. They remain subliminal, and
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  emerge sometimes in an irregular and fitful action, more readily
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  in some minds than in others, or come to the surface in abnormal
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  states of the being. They are the basis of
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  clairvoyance, clairaudience, transference of thought and
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  impulse, telepathy. Most of the more ordinary kinds
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  of occult powers so-called, though these are better
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  described less mystically as powers of the now subliminal
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  action of the manas. The phenomena of hypnotism and
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  many others, depend upon the action of this subliminal sense
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  mind. Not that it alone constitutes to
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  all the elements of the phenomena, but it is the first
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  supporting means of intercourse, communication and response,
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  though much of the actual operation belongs to an inner
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  booty mind. Physical mind, supra.
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  Physical. We have and can use this double
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  sense mentality. End Quote Reference Sri
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  Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within Chapter 19 Occult Powers
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  of the Subliminal pages, 1:48 to 1:49.