June 10, 01

Parts and Planes of the Being and Their Extensions (*)

by Mother’s Service Society

q Body, vital, mind, Spirit and Supermind are the parts of our being.

q The Spirit which is called spiritual mind range is described in the ascending order of Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind.

q Each of these parts extends into subtle and causal planes.

q Mind as it extends in the spiritual mental range, descends below in inner mind, subliminal mind and subconscious mind.

q By Mind we mean the physical mind on the surface.

q These terms do extend into the surface being, inner being, subliminal being and subconscious being.

q They similarly apply to the vital and physical.

q The spiritual mind range is the superconscient culminating in what we call Supracosmic, Superconscient, which is the opposite of the Inconscient where it forgets itself.

q The subliminal is born where the Superconscient and the subconscient meet.

q The subconscient is the repository of the race memory in us.

q Neither the subtle nor the inner is spiritual.

q The subliminal extends or is capable of extending all over the universe.

q The Manomaya Purusha – witness soul – is in the inner mind.

q The psychic is buried in a cave in the subliminal.

q By Being we mean the embodied being, the body and mind assumed by the conscious soul for its earthly life.

q All the terms above – Sat, Chit, Ananda, Supermind – are found in all the terms below, but involved in various degrees.

q Thought: It is gross when verbalised in the mind. It is subtle before it is put into words and it is in existence in impulse. The thought can become causal when it is a Supramental thought capable of intuition. Thoughts float in the atmosphere, enter us through our body, rise to the mind to find expression as speech.

q Thought, He says, can seek the Absolute.

(*) A full detailed discussion of this topic can be found in the chapter “Boundaries of Ignorance” in The Life Divine.

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