Material space is not the same as mental space and the speed of light and the speed of thought are not commensurable.The mental world, the world of thoughts, is a world in itself. It is autonomous. It moves with its own way with its own laws. In the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo he says We human beings believe that it is we who think, that is produce or create our thoughts, that we are the makers of our notions and ideas. but in reality it is not so. Thoughts notions ideas all movements of the mind are self existent realities. They go about or flow on like the waves of a vast sea. Human beings are mere instruments, receptacles that capture or seize some mere instruments, receptacles that capture or seize some undulations of this vast ocean. Man a mental being in him the brain is developed to such an extent and in such a manner that it serves as antennae or as an aerial to receive vibrations from the mental world. Indeed an ordinary human mind is a sort of crossroads where all kinds of thoughts from all places meet, cross one another and make a ideal market place. In fact, an individual does not possess any thought-movement which can be called his own. He only catches a contagion. And like a contagion thought-movements pass from one person to another although one may think or feel that the movement is one's own.
In order to have one's own thought, in order to think by oneself, a long process of education and training is necessary. A growing personal individual consciousness is the first requisite and for that one must do what the vedic rishi sought to do, gather the thoughts that one has, collect them, sift them and try to have a control over them. One must develop the habit of admitting certain thoughts and rejecting others. Thoughts that are useful, that carry light and peacefulness and happiness, are necessary those that are worth accepting.Those that are of the contrary nature should be pushed out. This is an exercise that develops the individual consciousness and the individual will.
One may try to recognise thoughts that are of a different category, that do not seem to belong to the accustomed level of consciousness but carry a vibration that is of elsewhere, that seem to come down from higher ranges of consciousness. this means an elevation of consciousness, your being rises into higher realities.
The true individual, the being who is capable of living and creating independently, is formed of a stuff that lies in these higher regions.
Mind is a force, thought and energy but that can be truly and fully effective when it is organised, directed, it then becomes a guided missile. In an ordinary mind the thoughts are dispersed they go about in all directions, to all objectives therefore their efficacy is at its minimal. For example like Light energy which becomes immensely, incredibly powerful when it is concentrated or gathered to one point. so also the thought when focused shines in the knowledge of the real truth. example
Usually when we think of a person or a thing, our thought vibration reaches its object but because the vibration is diffuse - i.e. not polarised it touches or just brushes its object very faintly without almost any reaction from it. Where as an organised, truly individualised consciousness has its thoughts- movements too, so organised and controlled and directed that it moves with a clear and forceful momentum. A mental vibration a thought movement becoming fully dynamic, totally effective then it gets its support from the vital which too is organised then the individualised personality loses its capriciousness and lends its support to the directing consciousness.
In order to have one's own thought, in order to think by oneself, a long process of education and training is necessary. A growing personal individual consciousness is the first requisite and for that one must do what the vedic rishi sought to do, gather the thoughts that one has, collect them, sift them and try to have a control over them. One must develop the habit of admitting certain thoughts and rejecting others. Thoughts that are useful, that carry light and peacefulness and happiness, are necessary those that are worth accepting.Those that are of the contrary nature should be pushed out. This is an exercise that develops the individual consciousness and the individual will.
One may try to recognise thoughts that are of a different category, that do not seem to belong to the accustomed level of consciousness but carry a vibration that is of elsewhere, that seem to come down from higher ranges of consciousness. this means an elevation of consciousness, your being rises into higher realities.
The true individual, the being who is capable of living and creating independently, is formed of a stuff that lies in these higher regions.
Mind is a force, thought and energy but that can be truly and fully effective when it is organised, directed, it then becomes a guided missile. In an ordinary mind the thoughts are dispersed they go about in all directions, to all objectives therefore their efficacy is at its minimal. For example like Light energy which becomes immensely, incredibly powerful when it is concentrated or gathered to one point. so also the thought when focused shines in the knowledge of the real truth. example
Usually when we think of a person or a thing, our thought vibration reaches its object but because the vibration is diffuse - i.e. not polarised it touches or just brushes its object very faintly without almost any reaction from it. Where as an organised, truly individualised consciousness has its thoughts- movements too, so organised and controlled and directed that it moves with a clear and forceful momentum. A mental vibration a thought movement becoming fully dynamic, totally effective then it gets its support from the vital which too is organised then the individualised personality loses its capriciousness and lends its support to the directing consciousness.
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