Rest few pages of selected topics for CW of Maa& Sri Aurobindo, every Sunday and on special days.
Like from that understanding perspective I know there is a Body, Vital, Mind, Soul, Consciousness
But I never felt them as concrete parts, like the way we feel about our hand, we know it has 5 unique seperate extensions and sense each one, and also at the same time we know this hand is also an extension of one big component.
I still do not have that kind of experience of the concepts I read, so when I take sessions or workshops for kids, teens, I feel like I am reciting some memory or some wonderful understanding, I do have the confidence while explaining things as I experience when I have to say 1+1=2 .
How do I feel such Concreteness da? I want to experience all things fully, I want to speak in one solid way I experience than just from rememberance ( I have shared the pdf of how I am experiencing these aspects da) What am I refering to “when I say ME/I” Is it consciousness or Ego or some thing else!
The different parts of our being are not made up of physical substance but of immaterial substance. They cannot be felt by material senses but by subtle senses. For example how does one feel love, anger, joy, peace etc. You can’t touch or hear or see them yet you know they exist because you experience them in another domain and in another way than through the material senses. This is the vital domain.
Similarly we don’t see thoughts or touch them yet the world of thoughts exists and one knows it. How? Because we have in us something that corresponds to the domain of thought. This is the mental world.
So also with sudden surge of Godward emotion and aspiration which one feels rising in the heart. That is where the psychic being, our true self is.
And when all is quiet, the mind free of thoughts and feelings and desires, in a state of luminous peace and felicity then you are touching the true consciousness.
The ‘Me’ that we ordinarily experience is an ever shifting sense of I that attaches itself to any part and says this is me, myself. It attaches to the body and feels I am the body, to desires and says I am this or that desire, to opinions and view points and believes this is me. It is simply a small little point that gets tagged to some movement or the other and calls it itself like the point of light that touches anything and that object becomes real to us. But this little point is not the true self. The true Self is the source of light, the bulb or the filament and not the lamp shade. The bulb is the psychic being, the lamp shade is the ego-self.
Consciousness is the power with which we become aware of everything. If the power is limited and diminished then it is a state of ignorance. If the power is released through Yoga then we can discover the true consciousness.
These things cannot be experienced by mental analysis or reading books. One has to experience them by undertaking the journey of Yoga, the first step of which is to grow in inner peace and discover the psychic being.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
