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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 4, 15th January 2022

automatic self-fulfilling action founded on the evolution it is difficult to measure the degree
spiritual Truth of things. In this higher state the to which the mind is able to extend its control
consciousness will see that Truth and follow the or its use of the body’s powers and capacities
line of its energies with full knowledge, with a and when the mind rises to higher powers
strong participation and instrumental mastery, a still and pushes back its human boundaries,
complete delight in action and existence. There it becomes impossible to fix any limits: even,
will be a luminous and enjoyed perfection of in certain realisations, an intervention by the
unity with all instead of a blind and suffered will in the automatic working of the bodily
subjection of the individual to the universal, organs seem to become possible (6).”
and at every moment the action of the universal
in the individual and the individual in the This implies a shift from the blind automatism
universal will be enlightened and governed by at the level of the physical mind to a mastery
s
the rule of the transcendent Supernature (5).” of the mental Purusa which facilitates a Will-
power that can intervene in the physical
This shift from the blind automatism that consciousness without the participation of
leads to disorders like OCD, to a conscious the cognitive mind. Eventually, at a very high
automatism that leads to Mahasarasvati’s transformed consciousness, this intervention
perfection, necessitates a lifting of the can change the automatic working of the bodily
consciousness from the physical mind to organs to conscious centres of energy and
the higher echelons of consciousness that power.
holds supra-rational faculties like intuition.
For that, it is needed to rise above the This opens up another new counselling field.
physical mind to the mental being, the Counsellors should develop newer and
Purussa, described in the Upanissad as leader more dynamic techniques where one can
of the life and body. “If the mind can take shift from the stereotyped perfection of the
up and control the instincts and automatisms physical mind to the dynamic open-ended
of the life-energy and the subtle physical perfection of the spiritual gestalt. Healing
consciousness and the body, if it can enter per se would then be a gateway to personal
into them, consciously use and, as we may growth.
say, fully mentalise their instinctive or
spontaneous action, the perfection of
these energies, their action too become more
conscious and more aware of themselves and
more perfect. But it is necessary for the mind
too to grow in perfection and this it can do best
when it depends less on the fallible intellect of
physical mind, when it is not limited even by
the more orderly and accurate working of the
reason and can grow in intuition and acquire a
wider, deeper and closer seeing and the more
luminous drive of energy of a higher intuitive
will. Even within the limits of its present

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