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and action so that a variegated multiplicity the Consciousness and Force are not as
develops to make the creation rich and differentiated as at the planes of the mind
vibrant, teeming with infinite possibilities and vital and the hiatus is filled up with
and potentialities. This hiatus is present inertia or tamas arising from the Inconscience.
at every plane of consciousness. With a This is not surprising as evolution begins
progressive evolution of consciousness, this from the Inconscience and the physical
hiatus is gradually worked upon so that at consciousness unfolds before the vital and
higher levels of consciousness, there is a the mind manifest. The resistance offered by
new synthesis of Knowledge and Will in a inertia against the transmuting changes of
new poise heralding perfection in human the higher planes makes it difficult for the
life. human will (belonging either to the subject
or to the therapist) to suggest or impose itself
At the level of the mind, the hiatus between on the physical plane. That is why one finds
Consciousness and Force is reflected in doubts it difficult to cure a purely physical problem
and preferential thinking, in misplaced values like pain by one’s willpower or through any
giving rise to the conflict between knowledge form of psycho-therapeutic suggestion unless
and will. This dissonance between knowledge temporarily one’s focus is shifted elsewhere
and will results in multiple investigations in during a hypnotic trance which of course is
chronic cases and doctor-shopping. Cognitive successful only in highly selective subjects
therapists act at this level in individual open to suggestions. Sri Aurobindo explains
subjects to somehow make a working that:
compromise, though a real improvement can
come only when one lifts the consciousness “fundamentally, all pain and suffering are
above the thinking mind to higher cognitive the result of an insufficient consciousness-
matrices. force in the surface being which makes it
unable to deal rightly with self and Nature
At the level of the vital (the emotional or unable to assimilate and to harmonise
repertoire), the gap between Consciousness itself with the contacts of the universal
and Force is maintained by our desire-soul Energy; they would not exist if in us there
and the turbulence of passions. This is why were an integral presence of the luminous
probably anti-depressants can reduce Consciousness and the divine Force of an
physical pain in a significant number of integral Being (2).”
cases. There are therapies that work at this
level, especially those inspired by Buddhist It follows therefore that the conquest of
teachings, though it is difficult to heal this physical pain requires a tapping of the
gap unless one has access to the secret Bliss- hitherto concealed body-consciousness
principle that pervades all existence and coupled with a decisive working through the
forms along with Consciousness-Force and inertia of Inconscience, an endeavour that
Existence the ultimate Reality-principle of needs a new technology of consciousness to
Sachchidananda. be developed. That is the new challenge
posed to the practitioners of the ‘greater
At the level of the physical consciousness, psychology’ of the future.

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