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The Conscious Being THE
conscious being in us is truly the psychic being. But it is at present behind
and out of the picture. What is normally conscious then is the mind, a part of
it which has got the light is illumined. Weare conscious through this portion,
and even we identify ourselves with it, know and feel it as our self, as
"I". The
mind, however, has a central consciousness which may be called the Witness
Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It stands apart and observes whatever is
happening in the mind and in other parts as well; it is in fact the observer of
the whole adhara. The other parts are the vital and the
physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, its witness Purusha,
which observes all the vital movements and also through its own angle the other
parts. Likewise the physical has a Purusha and it too observes through its own
conscious-ness. The mental Purusha says, "I see I am thinking, reasoning,
etc."; the vital Purusha says, "I see I am angry, violent or
enjoying, energising,
etc."; the physical Purusha says, "I see I am acting, walking,
running, etc." Now each of these three Purushas, in an ordinary person,
stands separately, each is conscious in its own way; they are not clearly
conscious of each other; they intermix, but not happily, they are more often
than not at cross purposes. Very rarely are they unified and harmonised or bound together as a team
for serving a common purpose, a single aim. That union and harmonisation can be done only through
the supreme Purusha, the Divine Witness who is the true conscious Being, the
one Purusha behind or above all the others, whose light first of all centralises in the psychic
being and then through it is canalised
into its delegates or emanations on the lower levels, the mind, the vital and
the physical.
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is consciousness? It is the inverse of Inconscience. It is the creative essence
of the universe: without consciousness there is no creation. Inconscience means
non-existence. The supreme Non-manifest becomes conscious of itself,
that is, objectifies itself, sees itself created or reflected in multiple
centres: that is the origin of all creation. By consciousness all is, by
unconsciousness nothing is. Consciousness is light, consciousness is life. The
original consciousness is one and indivisible and at its highest potential. But
when it gets devolved and divided, i.e., individualised, it gets at the same time diffracted and minimised, like the
reflections in a rough mirror. What we normally understand by consciousness is
this diminished degree of it in the individual. But although diminished and
diffracted in many forms and modes, the basic consciousness is still the divine
consciousness which is there behind and at the origin of all the partial
formulations. It is through this core of Divine Presence – which is nothing
else than the psychic – that the individual maintains and develops its contact
with the Divine, grows into the fullness of the divine consciousness even as an
individual and earthly embodiment.
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