MIND AND NO-MIND

Mind is represented by the westerner’s psyche.

The typical example was Socrates, Man-

Thinking, as Emerson used to say. The poet, the

scholar, the scientist, the technocrat - all are only

variations of the thinking man. The basic unit of

mind is image. And its various denominations

are the sign, symbol, word, sound, thought,

ambition, imagination, intuition, and so on.

The thinking man is a stage in evolution. This

stage has to be consciously transcended. This

learning to think is essential before remaining

thoughtless. Man must first learn to think

through any subject and correctly. This habit is

fully represented by a scientist and technologist.

It must precede before learning yoga, the art of

stopping thinking like an Indian. In this aspect

the westerner is going on the right path perhaps

and the Indian, by avoiding thinking totally, is

mistaken. The root cause of all the miseries of

the Indians is that they don’t know how to think

properly. This is unfortunately not taught in the

schools or colleges. That is why the average

Indian relies upon any cheap, selfish politician

who promises to think for the public. One fact

is forgotten in India that democracy needs two

qualities for its survival, tolerance and individual,

discriminative thinking. Only the former is kept

to some extent in India, but cannot go on for

long. The cause of ills occurring from politicians,

bureaucrats, goondas, robbers, and barons of

industry is this neglect of thinking on the part

of the voting public. This was not so in ancient

India when philosophical systems flourished

everywhere, and philosophical debate and

discussion in the market place was an everyday,

common sight. This fact is ignored by modern

Indian mystics and seers. They want their illiterate

public to leap into mystical states without going

through the right channels. All the textbooks

of Vedanta advocate argumentative thinking as

the initial way for the student before going to

the final stage of experiencing non-dual silence.

Sankara’s books are ample proof of this fact.

Self-consciousness is an essential stage in

the evolution of consciousness. From herdinstinct,

through self-consciousness to cosmicconsciousness,

from man to a Buddha--this is the

right form of conscious evolution. A Buddhist

or a Vedantin must be a scientist first and the

scientist must learn silence. Only then will the

world have complete men and be free from the

dangers of fragmented minds.

In the western intellectual tradition, this process

can be seen in the lives and literatures of

Jung, Goethe, Dante, and Homer. Jung and

Goethe represent fully the second stage of selfconscious

humans. The first, the animal stage,

is, unfortunately represented by the common

consumer of the west. This reversing of the

natural, original evolutionary process is the

dangerous aspect of consumerism. It is a threat

to man’s survival. If this consumerism continues

and succeeds all over the world and man turned

into an animal again he shall be left behind by

the Elan Vital as it has done in the past with

Dinosaurs and other innumerable species. It is

the foremost duty of the leaders of the western

intellectual tradition to warn the public and

stop them from the second ‘Fall’ of man. With

this second fall, perhaps there would be no

redeemer. The species could be extinguished

once for all from the face of the earth.

The IT revolution and computer education

are the right signals given by the evolutionary

process. They are making even people from the

rural areas of India to think. For the first time,

man is becoming man, a self-conscious animal in

the process of thinking. Learning mathematics

is the right way to become a thinker - an

objective, scientific thinker free from prejudices

and idiosyncrasies. When more than 50 percent

of the world population achieve computer

literacy, mankind will enter into its next phase

of evolution, that is, the spiritual phase. Not

before. A Buddha, a Christ, a Sankara, and a

Thiruvalluvar - these few individuals are not the

whole of mankind however great and illumined

they were. All the cells in the body go to make

a human body. The loss of one cell is also the

loss of the body. Which cell in the body is me?

Every cell. Thus every cell is important and must

become fully conscious, fully alive to make the

body totally awake. The meditative technique

of vipassana discovered by Buddha teaches

only this wisdom. The east must learn the art of

thinking and computer literacy from the west,

not its base consumerism. The west must learn

the yoga of silence from the east. Only then the

human species has a chance for survival.

In 1924 Jung traveled to America. There he met

Ochwiay Biano (Mountain Lake), the chief of

Taos Pueblo Indians. He revealed a truth about

the white man’s psyche to Jung and Jung agreed

with him. Jung writes: He struck a vulnerable

spot and unveiled a truth to which I was blind.

“See”, Ochwiay Biano said, “How cruel the

whites look. Their lips are thin, their noses

sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by

folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they

are always seeking something. What are they

seeking? The whites always want something;

they are always uneasy and restless. We do not

know what they want. We do not understand

them. We think that they are mad. They say

they think with their heads not with their hearts

as we do. (Head - thinking is an act of selfconsciousness,

a fragmented consciousness

and heart thinking here is nothing but herd

instinct of animals, man - animal one can say

not compassion of a Buddha.)

Jung reflects: I fell into a long meditation. For

the first time in my life, so it seemed to me,

someone had drawn for me a picture of the real

white man”.

Here started the mid - life crisis of Jung and

he discovered the remedy in his own brand

of yoga, ‘the process of individuation’. Every

white man must follow the footsteps of this sage

of Switzerland, not the voice of the advertising

media which will take him and his culture to

the grave and not to any real substance or

immortality.

Even this sage was mistaken in one aspect. He

said that it was dangerous for a white man to

learn yoga from the east. Perhaps it was mere

professional jealousy. Millions of white people

have learnt yoga and have proved him wrong.

His predecessor Goethe was right when he

said:

East and West

Can no longer be kept apart

For the human species is one.

Goethe’s creation of Faust was the exact

portrayal of modern man of the west. Goethe, the

true poet was the right voice of the evolutionary

force. In 1826, he writes about Faust:

He is a man who feels himself impatient and ill

at ease in the limitations of earthly existence,

regarding even the possession of the highest

wisdom, the enjoyment of the best that life can

offer, as incapable of satisfying his aspirations

in the least, so that he comes back from any

experience he essays unhappy than before.

This ‘monster without aim or peace’ he calls

himself in the Urfaust. Faust and Goethe long

for the fullest experience of life, even though he

is convinced that nothing will satisfy him.

Now, contrast this ‘longing for the fullest

experience of life on this earth’ with a Buddha’s,

a Sankara’s, a Christ’s. a Vallalar’s longing for

total renunciation of this life and entry into the

other world.

Faust and Goethe will feel satisfied only with this

spiritual culture of the east, not with his professed

self-culture of the physical, of the artistic, the

intellectual, and the emotional centre. For total

integrity one more centre of consciousness has

to be tapped and experienced: the spirit.

The level of consciousness of a Faust or the

modern man of the west is well illustrated with

a parable in Vedanta. A dog bites into a bone.

The blood oozes. It sucks the blood and enjoys

the taste. But the truth is there is no blood in

the food, in the bone. The bone pierced the

upper roof of its mouth and blood comes out of

the wound. The dog is sucking and tasting only

its own blood, mistaking it to coming from the

food. No, the taste comes from within, from

the spirit. Bone or food or the external object

is only a switch, an instrument that brings on

the light of the taste. When all the taste, the

bliss, is inside, in one’s own spirit, one’s own

consciousness, why rely, unnecessarily on the

outside world? asks Vedanta.

Again this exclusiveness on the experience of

the spiritual, at the cost of the physical is one

sided. The right answer perhaps was provided

by Homer’s Ulysses. The tradition was followed

later by Virgil’s Aeneus and Dante in his Divine

Comedy. It is to learn and master the secrets

of both the physical world and the spiritual

world and enjoy both from this station, the

earth. Ulysses learns to enter into Hades and

comes back, Aeneus does the same. Ulysses is

not deceived by the worlds and wants only one

thing, to go back to his wife Penelope and to

his homeland. Dante went one step further. In

his reverie or meditation he travels like Ulysses

and Aeneus not only into hell, but he also goes

to purgatory and the very Heaven, the spiritual

world where God lives and comes back to this

world. Now the development of consciousness

is almost complete. I say almost because he

has not mastered ‘death’ and conquered nature

- both physical and spiritual. This was done

and the cycle completed in the Tamil Siddhas,

particularly in the life of Saint Ramalinga (1823-

) of Vadalur in Tamilnadu. A Siddha is one who

sees the spiritual world from his seat here on

earth.

I Have Taken From Book : The Science of Enlightment and Immortality Magazine

Author: Kuppusamy R

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