Mind
What is mind ? From the yogic standpoint it is simply the
individualized consciousness, the whole of it, the whole of your
consciousness including your activities which the Western psychologist
puts outside mind. Only on the basis of Eastern psychology is Yoga
possible. How shall we describe this individualized consciousness?
First, it is aware of things. Becoming aware of them, it desires them.
Desiring them, it tries to attain them. So we have the three aspects
of consciousness-- intelligence, desire, activity. On the physical
plane, activity predominates, although desire and thought are present.
On the astral plane, desire predominates, and thought and activity are
subject to desire. On the mental plane; intelligence is the dominant
note, desire and activity are subject to it. Go to the buddhic plane,
and cognition, as pure reason, predominates, and so on. Each quality
is present all the time, but one predominates. So with the matter that
belongs to them. In your combinations of matter you get rhythmic,
active, or stable ones; and according to the combinations of matter in
your bodies will be the conditions of the activity of the whole of
these in consciousness. To practice Yoga you must build your bodies of
the rhythmic combinations, with activity and inertia less apparent.
The yogi wants to make his body match his mind
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