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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 4, 15th January 2021

the identification of the mind and vital with the
body, the instrument is very strong, which in
turn creates the differentiations of I-You, Mine-
Others, etc. In order to make its importance and
relevance felt, the mind controls and directs all
action. This ego mind and vital thrive on the
combination of fear, desire and attachment.
These are the causes of pathos and sorrows that
individuals experience in the world.

All these emotions are reasons for experiencing
3. Mind plane
frozenness, indecision, ignorance, confusion
The mind and vital, seat of all perceptions, and quite often leading towards wrong action
thoughts, emotions and feelings, together choices.The instinct of self-preservation is
direct all actions to respond to the stimuli a powerful and binding driver and a cause
from the external world. The mind and vital for the constant preoccupation for fulfilment
processes the stimulations received when of desires and gratification in humans. The
objects come in contact with sense organs and mind and vital planes are the stage where the
provides a suitable response for the organs drama of the world of objects takes place, the
to act. The mind (manas) has the capacity of play of cause and effect.
volition, perception, feeling, understanding,
and deciding. Humans are also armed with another capacity:
the intellect (buddhi). This makes beings
In the Realm of Inconscient Inactivity and capable of recognising objects and concepts
Stillness, the mind is involved but not of the world, to compare, contrast, categorise,
developed and evolved and therefore does distinguish, visualise, create, imagine,
not have the capacity to think or act. discover and innovate. At an even higher
level of the intellect, lies the ability to
In the Realm of Conscient Activity and discriminate (vivekabuddhi), enquire into the
Movement, the mind has different development existential relationships, to distinguish the
states. For elementary beings (animal kingdom), difference between the Subject (the knower,
the mind is not fully developed, nor capable experiencer) and Object (known, experience).
of deep thinking. Here, the capacity of the This intelligence enables them to connect to
mind is limited to receiving stimuli from the the universal consciousness, the source of
external mind, processing it as one of threat energy within and outside of them. However
or safety and acting accordingly. The mind in this experience and connectedness with the
lower beings operates mostly from a fright, universal consciousenss is sporadic and not
flight or fight mode.The mind in human continuous. While this potential is innate and
beings however is more developed and available to all, it is not tapped into equally
includes the vital. It helps the formation of by humans. This is because, it is largely
individual identities and then goes further to dependant on the capacity and development
establish relationship of the self with others.In of the consciousness in individuals.This realm

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