One has yet to
learn that we cannot look into the mind of another nor into that of animals.
Hence those scientists who describe how ants think, for instance, are merely
drawing inferences, not ascertaining proved facts.
That which
one know best in the waking experience,
that which is nearest to his , that of which he
can never be free, its existence
is supremely certain, is his
consciousness.
One may doubt
anything else but he directly perceives his-self. Hence one has to begin the
study of the truth with the study of consciousness, not, as is mistakenly done
by theologians, metaphysicians, with the supposed Absolute.
All gold
ornaments are made of this same single material, so to explain the nature of
the unknown soul, one has to start with something known and familiar, viz.
consciousness, which he has in the three
states, and proceed step by step from that onwards.
One knows his
-self (soul or consciousness), it is directly perceived, and thinking implies a thinking
capacity, i.e. a thinker. This self (soul) is his consciousness. After showing
that this consciousness, this self (soul), is ultimate reality, and everything
else is of the same nature which should enable one henceforth to understand all
else also is consciousness. Everyone has and knows this consciousness;
therefore it is a universal datum. It is something which everybody can grasp.
Mind and its
substance, Mind and as whole, are two different things has to be investigated. Mind does not depend on mere size
of the physical brain. The elephant has the largest animal brain, yet it is no
more intelligent than man, who has a much smaller brain.
If, as some think,
the interaction of material brain atoms produces mind as a by-product, the
reply for this is that one cannot know this unless someone had seen it happen.
However, nobody has yet seen it. This theory is based on mere speculation.
One knows only
mind is limited to his physical activity, but the truth is the whole physical
existence, which is full of action or inaction is mind. If one limits the mind to his physical
entity, he will never be able to move towards ultimate understanding. Mind appears as waking and dream. Man and his
world are within the waking or dream.
Thus, the mind is the whole physical existence. Thus, one has to consider the mind as whole
physical existence. By considering the mind as physical existence, the waking
and dream also are considered as mind.
What is mind? and
What it does and by what it is capable of doing? No one knows it in itself.
Philosophers and intellectuals who
regard mind as only a power or as an activity do not really say, what it is when
appearing to define it, even though they use a million words. Their study is correct up to a certain level,
but they have not gone very deep verifying the facts.
One may think of
the mind as he likes, but he gets only a thought, i.e. he gets words, more
words. He do not get mind itself. Philosophers go on spinning yarns about the
mind, but have never seen it. Their words are only imaginations. How can one see the mind when philosophers
and their experience of the world exist within the mind? When the mind disappears they and their
experience of the world also disappear.
Therefore, deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning is required to analyze
mind. Then only it is possible to move
forward in pursuit of truth.
Punditry is not
philosophy. Much of what they say may be true but true only as thoughts, but
they have to inquire what a thought is; and then they have to go beyond it.
What about the witness, which witnesses all this three states, which comes and
goes. No philosopher has even been able
to define the meaning of 'mind' and 'consciousness'.
One does not know
the dimensions of the mind. All the form time, space is within mind only, not
outside of it. One as an individual can
imagine anything within the mind.
The terms
"super-consciousness" "overmind" etc. belong to irrational
mysticism. No one can measure awareness which is consciousness and say where it
stops, therefore mind is called limitless; hence to talk of something beyond it
is sheer imagination. One has to appeal only to the facts not imagination.
People who talk of
brain-consciousness are talking emptily. One does not know what it is, nor what
“brainless consciousness” is. One is aware of only consciousness. Science does
not know the true relation between consciousness and brain, if any.
One knows only
'mental states. Only three final mental states that is, waking, dream and deep
sleep--which come and go.
