The dwarf triple bodied trinity are the three levels at which the present human mind operates. They are, in evolutionary sequence, the physical, vital and the mental mind or the mind proper.
The physical mind is heavily dependent upon the senses and the raw data they provide. It trusts only that which can be seen and measured. Then there is the vital mind that takes flights of imagination, thereby escaping from the ‘sensory reality’ in search of that which is hidden. It is the mind that fantasises, and in the process, might hit some secret truth missed by the physical mind. Though most often its action is a terrible mixture of fact and fiction. Finally, there is the rational mind which uses the power of Reason to analyse the raw sensory inputs and draw a meanings out of it by comparisons and contrasts. The rational mind tries to correct not only the inputs of the physical mind but also the fantasies of the imaginative mind. Thus it sketches a rough road map, a tentative guide for human beings to navigate through life.
However they are dwarfs because they cannot reach out to the concealed higher realities that the senses cannot construct, the imagination cannot conceive and reason cannot know or fathom. Besides Reason, the highest so far, depends heavily upon the grossly inadequate sensory data and hence has no means to dive and probe deeper. Imagination is at best a distorted or diminished far off reflection. Hence this mind which is the maximum for present humanity is a mind of ignorance.
There is however a greater Mind that is endowed with subtle senses, truth-vision and truth-imagination, and faculties of inspiration, revelation, intuition leading towards a global cosmic mind, the Overmind that sees things as a whole.
And beyond there is the Supermind, the Mind that is omniscient and omnipotent, fully conscious of Truth through an intimate identity.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
