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Namah Notes on counselling

today in consonance with the progress in repetition of a sacred name or mantra, often
consciousness is in accordance to the Zeitgeist with the help of rosary beads, so that instead
or Time-Spirit. And naturally, unlike the case of ruminating on habitual ideas one could
in OCD, perfection does not remain focused perfect oneself by repeating the name of the
on the physical plane alone but has to be Lord!
successively or simultaneously expressed
at diverse planes of the consciousness, A greater destiny awaits the physical mind.
that ranges from the physical plane and In Sri Aurobindo’s yoga of transformation,
traverses the vital to reach the mental the physical mind cannot be left out. In fact
plane and also traverses the depths of it holds the key to physical transformation.
consciousness, by moving from the outer The physical mind has to receive the Light
being to the inner being and from there of progress before other parts of the being
to the soul-space that leads to the inmost start to respond. It has to be transformed first
being or psychic being. before the intellectual mind and even the vital
mind are transformed. Unless the physical
In that sojourn, one can reach the heights mind is worked upon, the consolidation of
of consciousness that leads to the Great the forces of transformation cannot occur.
Void where one is no longer bothered about
perfection. Or else one can reach the psychic From blind automatism to conscious
being or soul-principle where the most perfect automatism
peak-moments of life, perfect in terms of intensity
and unalloyed joy and in terms of embodying In Sri Aurobindo’s transformational trajectory,
a divine element, are preserved. the evolution of consciousness facilitates the
These moments of perfection are preserved shifting from the blind servitude to Matter’s
to outlast the life-span of an individual and laws to the spontaneous remoulding of
remain as memory templates in the cosmic the physical substrate at higher echelons of
consciousness to influence future lives. These consciousness. The phenomenon of automatism
perfect soul-moments lead us to immortality. per se can change in denouement from a blind
action tied to nature’s laws to a spontaneous
A reappraisal of the physical mind and free action designating instrumental
mastery. The evolutionary movement that
The limitations of the physical mind that started from a blind automatism of Matter
even binds perfection in stereotyped patterns can culminate into an automatic self-fulfilling
instead of progressing have been known plenitude.
since antiquity. Long before the behavioural
psychologists began their exploration with Indeed, the evolution that started with a
interventional techniques, the spiritual seekers blind automatism of Matter “proceeds through
of nearly all major traditions in the world the pregnant confusion of the mind and life
recognized that the pursuit of habitual thinking of a humanity driven by this inferior Nature
and elusive perfection was a hindrance to but struggling to escape from her limitations,
contemplation and inner search. That is how to master and drive and use her; it emerges
the japa was introduced, which included the into a greater spontaneous harmony and

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