The means available to us for approaching Atma are the four faculties of the mind, namely - Mun - rhyming with "pun"; interacting with the sensory organs; Buddhi: the realm of thoughts, contemplation and intellect; Chitta: the storehouse of inherent traits and habits formed as a consequence of repeated actions in the present and previous births; and A hamkar: ego - the predominant impression of one's own personality like "I am rich", "I am poor", "I am strong" etc. These four faculties of the mind can be trained as tools for experiencing the reality of the soul (Atma Darshan). The soul is subtly pervasive all over the body. It has not been assigned any fixed location by nature, where one could access it through some means or methodology. As only the faculties of mind or capable of revealing the stages of growth of the soul in evolution, its modes of manifestation in forms, exploration of secrets of the inner world of the mind is an essential part of spiritual search.
The realm of mind is not an illusion
The domain of mind functions as per its own underlying principles like the external material world. Within moments, thoughts travel from New York to Switzerland. Though New York and Switzerland in the mental imagery do not have a physical presence in the mind, nevertheless these are reflections of an actuality, which does exist elsewhere. A Shadow is as much a reality as the object of which it is a reflection. Nothing can be conceptualized unless it factually exists in substance somewhere. Hence the realm of mind should not be taken as an illusory world.
An infinitesimally rarefied energy (Sookshma Chetna) operating in the mind is controlling all activities of the universe. An industrialist, who desires to extend his business to a foreign country, first gathers relevant information about that country analyses the data and takes then decisions about actual investment there. Divinity sends its probing messages to a soul capable of illumination as intuitions in mind. By entering the domain of mind (by reading body language, facial expressions, psychoanalysis, polygraphs, etc.) we can find almost everything about the emotional state and reflex response of a person. Such things, however, pertain to a very small part of the conscious superficial layers of the mind. In the deeper layers of the mind - sub-conscious subliminal and super-conscious - paranormal, extra-sensory domains are hidden. From these domains, predictions can be made about future events. All inspiration, guidance and light for spiritual quest come through a quiet, respective and purified mind. The latter receives divine directives as intuitions; the tongue expresses them in words, which are then recorded in the holy books. In absence of these faculties of the mind, man would have functioned like a mechanical robot. It is the domain of mind, which serves as a channel between ultimate causal realm of the spirit and the soul of man, encased in Maya.
The realm of mind is not an illusion
The domain of mind functions as per its own underlying principles like the external material world. Within moments, thoughts travel from New York to Switzerland. Though New York and Switzerland in the mental imagery do not have a physical presence in the mind, nevertheless these are reflections of an actuality, which does exist elsewhere. A Shadow is as much a reality as the object of which it is a reflection. Nothing can be conceptualized unless it factually exists in substance somewhere. Hence the realm of mind should not be taken as an illusory world.
An infinitesimally rarefied energy (Sookshma Chetna) operating in the mind is controlling all activities of the universe. An industrialist, who desires to extend his business to a foreign country, first gathers relevant information about that country analyses the data and takes then decisions about actual investment there. Divinity sends its probing messages to a soul capable of illumination as intuitions in mind. By entering the domain of mind (by reading body language, facial expressions, psychoanalysis, polygraphs, etc.) we can find almost everything about the emotional state and reflex response of a person. Such things, however, pertain to a very small part of the conscious superficial layers of the mind. In the deeper layers of the mind - sub-conscious subliminal and super-conscious - paranormal, extra-sensory domains are hidden. From these domains, predictions can be made about future events. All inspiration, guidance and light for spiritual quest come through a quiet, respective and purified mind. The latter receives divine directives as intuitions; the tongue expresses them in words, which are then recorded in the holy books. In absence of these faculties of the mind, man would have functioned like a mechanical robot. It is the domain of mind, which serves as a channel between ultimate causal realm of the spirit and the soul of man, encased in Maya.
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Spiritual spirit comes from the very inner layer of our body. This is known as feeling of an individuals.