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The Source and Nature of the Thoughts an Individual Receives · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we ask almost anyone where thoughts come from, they will
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  say that they are produced in the brain.
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  The brain is some kind of thought Factory.
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  They don't know how they don't know why.
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  They don't know what causes certain thoughts to develop.
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  They recognize that sense perceptions influence the
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  thoughts. In other words that the
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  vibrations that we receive from outside our individuality
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  through our senses, provoke some process in the brain and this
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  leads to the creation of various forms of thought.
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  We do not know at all what level of Life thought actually begins
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  to occur. But as we researched this topic
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  in the animal kingdom, we know that at least certain forms of
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  thought appear in a number of different animal species but
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  thus far the more subtle and complex thought processes that
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  lead to science. Mathematics philosophy,
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  religion. Etc are reserved for the level
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  of development. Of the human instrument.
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  Some Western thinkers such as TR de chardin, posited, that there
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  was a mental environment. A belt of thought spanning
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  across the world similar to the ionosphere at the physical level
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  or the biosphere at the level of the life force.
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  He called this a newest fear and it was a level that contained
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  all thought that cycled constantly throughout the entire
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  world and those who were receptive could tap into and
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  participate in this newest fear. The hundredth monkey phenomenon
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  that led to General capability after a certain number of
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  individuals Master. The skill would seem to support
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  the idea of there being a general newest fear as otherwise
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  worldwide adoption would not be likely under this circumstance.
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  CG Jung determined from his research, that there was a
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  collective unconscious. We're certain archetypes, and
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  symbols, and images, the seeds and basis of thought, resided.
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  And which were available to all human beings.
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  When they open to them, the Ty Tyrion who punishes had held
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  that, there was a mental plane of existence, a mental sheath,
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  that was the repository of thought.
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  Play-Doh floatiness and other Western philosophers developed.
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  The concept of the real idea that was the precursor and Seed
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  of all the forms in the universe, modern physicists
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  recognize, that matter was a form of energy.
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  And that energy is a form of Consciousness, which implies
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  that, there is a universal Consciousness that creates the
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  entire Universal manifestation. Shooting matter, life and mind.
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  If we recognize the reality of this understanding, it soon
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  becomes very clear that the ego personality does not originate
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  or manufacture, thought at all rather, we can at certain times
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  and in certain ways become receptive to the thoughts that
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  exist in the newest fear that surrounds us and the thoughts.
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  We accept are based on an affinity or some kind of
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  filtering system. We develop through cultural
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  training education, mental development Etc which leads to a
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  question that everyone confronts at some point.
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  Namely, why do bad thoughts come?
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  The mother writes quote, haven't I told you why bad thoughts come
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  for as many reasons as there are bad thoughts, each one comes for
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  its own special reason. It may be through Affinity it,
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  maybe just to tease you. It may be because you call them,
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  it may be because you expose yourself to attacks it.
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  Maybe all this at once and many more things besides Bad
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  thoughts. Come because there's something
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  corresponding somewhere within you.
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  Otherwise you might see something passing, like, they
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  would not come inside you. I suppose the question means.
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  Why do you suddenly think something bad?
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  Because the stages are very different.
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  I've already explained to you. That the mental atmosphere is
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  worse than any public place. When a crowd is their
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  innumerable ideas, thoughts of all kinds and all forms
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  crisscross in such a complicated tangle.
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  That it is impossible to make out anything precise.
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  Your head is in the midst of all and your mind even more.
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  So It babes in it as one bathes in the sea.
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  And all this comes and goes passes.
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  Turns collides enters, goes out. If you were conscious of the
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  mental atmosphere in which you live, Obviously it would be a
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  little maddening. I think personal cerebral limits
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  are quite necessary as a filter for a very long time in life, to
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  be able to get out of all that and live fully in the mental
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  atmosphere. As it is seeing it, as it is, it
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  is the same for the vital Atmosphere.
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  By the way, that is perhaps yet uglier to live in it, and see
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  it. As it is, one must be strong.
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  One must have a very Steady sense of inner Direction but in
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  any case whether you see it or not, whether you feel it or not,
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  it is a fact. It is like that.
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  So one cannot ask. Where bought bad thoughts come
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  from? They are everywhere.
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  Why do they come? Where would they go?
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  You are right in the midst of them.
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  What governs this filter of Consciousness, which makes you
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  conscious of certain thoughts, and not conscious of others.
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  Is your inner attitude, your inner affinities, your inner
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  habits, I am. Speaking of the mind, not of the
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  psychic, it is your education, your cerebral development, Etc.
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  That is a kind of filter formed by your ego and certain thoughts
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  pass through it and others don't automatically.
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  That is Why the nature of the thoughts you receive may be
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  quite an important indication for you of the kind of
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  character, you have, it may be quite subconscious for you.
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  For a man is not in the habit of really knowing himself but it is
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  an indication of the general tendency of your character to
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  put things in a very simplified way.
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  If you take an optimist for instance, well in general,
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  optimistic ideas will come To him for a pessimist, they will
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  generally be pessimistic ideas. I'm speaking very broadly.
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  For a person with a rebellious nature, they will be rebellious
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  ideas and for a very sheepish person, they will be sheepish,
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  ideas granting, the cheap have ideas.
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  That is the usual, normal condition and quote, reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga approach
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  to psychological health and growth, disturbances of Mind
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  unruly and perturbing thoughts Pages 35 to 40 3,