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Recieved: 1999/10/13 04:38
Subject: [K-list] fullness not negation
From: Zala
On 1999/10/13 04:38, Zala posted thus to the K-list:
Some see the brain
as a large receptacle of stored knowledge, that can be called upon when
ever it is needed. This recall is selective or automatic. If I need to
go
to the bathroom, the urge is natural (what you may call intuitive) and
the knowledge of where the bathroom is automatic because I have been
there before.
Actually, this is instinctual. Definitions of instinctual, intellect and
intuition can be something like this. In this regard, the sense of I is
of differing degrees depending on what exactly is the awareness/process
involved:
That is, there are various qualifications/differentiations of 'I' which
give rise to different 'knowledge bases'/awareness.
There is the 'done I' or 'objective I' of a unit-mind. All perceptions
remain unperceived
unless the 'done I' identifies itself with the reflections of objectivity
(through sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) on itself. If this does not
happen then there is no perception.
By the attraction towards subtlety, there develops the 'doer I' or 'owner
I' type of cognition.
And by the attraction of even more introversive force or desire for subtle
uderstanding/knowledge there is the predominance of pure 'I feeling' - 'I
am' or 'I exist'.
Instinct is confined to the 'done I' level of existence. In the main
animals and plants operate on instinct. Humans can advance far beyond
that [even some animals can also advance beyond just instinct].
If the periphery of 'doer I' is greater than that of the 'done I', the
surplus portion is development of Intellect.
If the dimension of the pure I feeling ('I am') be greater than that of
the 'doer I' feeling, the surplus part is Intuition.
It is discernible in the undeveloped organisms or plant life that the
manifestation of 'done I' only has taken place but not of 'doer I' or 'I
am'. That is, operation of instinct prevails with all its natural
tendencies of the need for breathing, defecation etc.
It may also be that in the undeveloped organisms or plants that the
manifestation of 'I am' has not taken place but those of 'doer I' and
'done I' have.
In comparatively developed organisms, creepers, and shrubs as well as
human beings, all the three, 'I am', 'doer I' and 'I am' (pure 'I
feeling') get manifested.
So human mind has different I perceptions/I states than other animals and
plants or
aemoba. Not only that the human conscioiusness can excel in how it wants
to manifest its potential. That experience can be beyond perception.
Some say that memory is only a recallable pattern of thoughts. Knowledge
is not
confined to that alone - that would be intellectuality. The intuitive
is
not a bombardment of pain and pleasure or their memories.
Intuition is still more than intellect or common sense (commonsense can
well be just instinctual or can be more developed intellect also).
The development of intuition is possible only in living beings who undergo
greater psychic/mental clash - the speed and comprehension of wanting to
move beyond relative knowledge. Intuition and spiritual longing/awareness
are indistinguishable. In that intuition develops. This is because the
person has awakened to a universal sense of awareness and does not just
chase ordinary material enjoyment or divisive tastes. People of
undeveloped intellect are mostly guided by knowing about the relative
world, ie that type of intellect. But intellect can also be more
pinnacled than this, more pointed in what it wants to achieve from
spiritual motive.
Those of developed intellect through proper ideation/awarenes on the
Supreme One, do through intellectual analysis then also start moving
towards that sort of Understanding. When intellect advances with the
ideation/awareness of the Supreme One no longer is the mind the slave of
the sensory perceptions or organs. Proper ideation/awarenes leads to
intellectual subtlety or pinnacled intellect which in turn leads to
intuition.
When intellect evolves into intuition, human beings realise that the cause
of the varied expressions of this world is the Supreme Whole - the
Indescribable Universal Consciousness. So such persons would want to
consolidate their innate propensities and channelise them towards that
Singular Understanding. The gradual unfoldment of intuition then leads to
a corresponding decrease in instinctual propensities being prime or
leading motivators. Further, intellect also becomes guided by conscience
and subtle human expression.
The self cannot be confined to a relative perspective. Ie Who/What is the
'I' that is observing even your own self as who describe above? (ie in the
sentence "I have observed the self").
There is no question that a higher 'dimension' exists. That is for sure
and when analysing the faculties of mind (eg see above) that becomes
obvious. But any knowledge or thought you talk about is also within that
dimension it is not apart from it - they are not exclusive forms of
existence. Thought/knowledge as you put it would just be a more
condensed, material perception which can have some value but has to be
'covered' by guidance from the higher dimension.
Of necessity this involves subjective movement from crudity to subtlety.
Whichever way you turn your eyes, you then see only Divinity in
every-surging glory. There is no `I' nor `you'. By an everlasting, mutual
pact the final curtain is fallen against all clashes of `I' and `you'.
The amount of this attainment of Oneness is proportionate to your
self-surrender. You have to offer your own entity.
Thus negation seems to equate with withdrawal of the mind from external
objectivity and instigating the withdrawn mind towards/in Godliness (this
is the pratyahara of yoga is it not?).
Thereafter, the intellect, due to the absence of 'doer I' or 'done I' as
the basis of existence, prime movers, also ceases its egoistic function.
The intellect then merges in the Real Cognition. At that stage the 'I am'
as the witness also attains the characteristic objectless witness-ship.
It is objectivity of mind which makes it unsteady. Therefore, the state
in which one surrenders all mental modifications to Total Non-qualified
Awareness/the Whole God is the real negation.
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