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મન મતિ દેહ ચૈત્ય પ્રાણ

જ્યાં આત્મા સંચાલક સભાન. 

એ દરેક અનુભૂતિમાં ગરકાવ

રગેરગ જ્યારે, તરબોળ પ્રકાશ

એ અનુભવ મૂકે કાયમી પ્રભાવ.

એ દરેક ન ભૂલે એ આલ્હાદ

પ્રગતિમય આનંદનો પ્રસાદ

છોડવા તૈયાર પોતપોતાનો સ્વભાવ.

એ દરેક ધરે પોતીકો મૂળાર્થ

લક્ષિત સફરમાં ભૂમિકાશીલ યોગદાન

આત્માના નિપુણ હથિયાર.

એ દરેક સ્વીકારે અનુયાયી સ્થાન

ઉછળકૂદને આપે વિદાય

આત્માને ખોળે, ફળદ્રુપ ઉદ્ધાર.

એ વ્યક્તિત્વ-અસ્તિત્વ હોય, 

પ્રભુ બાળ...

દિવ્ય આધાર...

બ્રહ્મ પ્રમાણ...

જય હો ... જય હો ...

નવેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૮

The psychic being is not the same as the Atman. It is what corresponds to the European idea of 'soul'. The western  occultists recognise, at least they used to recognise, three things; Spirit, soul, body. The Spirit corresponds to the Atman, and the soul to the psychic being. It is Purusha hrdguhàyàm - the soul in the cave of heart.

*Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo Recorded

by A. B. Purani p.151

Each plane of our being mental, vital, physical has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body-consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest difficulty in finding out their causes.

*Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, p. 347

The "Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but... "mind" and "mental"... connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence. The vital has to be carefully distinguished from mind, even though it has a mind element transfused into it; the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature. Mind and vital are mixed up on the surface of the consciousness, but they are quite separate forces in themselves and as soon as one gets behind the ordinary surface consciousness one sees them as separate, discovers their distinction and can with the aid of this knowledge analyse their surface mixtures.

*Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, p. 320-21

...mind and vital... are not the same. The thinking mind or buddhi lives, however imperfectly in man, by intelligence and reason. Vital, on the other hand, is a thing of desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after life-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment; these are its functions and its nature; it is that part of us which seeks after life and its movements for their own sake and it does not want to leave hold of them if they bring it suffering as well as or more than pleasure; it is even capable of luxuriating in tears and suffering as part of the drama of life.

*Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, p.323

The body also has a consciousness of its own and, though it is a submental instrument or servant consciousness, it can disobey or fail to obey as well. In many things, in matters of health and illness for instance, in all automatic functionings, the body acts on its own and is not a servant of the mind. If it is fatigued, it can offer a passive resistance to the mind's will. It can cloud the mind with tamas, inertia, dullness, fumes of the subconscient so that the mind cannot act. The arm lifts, no doubt, when it gets the suggestion, but at first the legs do not obey when they are asked to walk; they have to learn how to leave the crawling attitude and movement and take up the erect and ambulatory habit. When you first ask the hand to draw a straight line or to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught and afterwards it does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body-consciousness which can do things at the mind's order, but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument.

*Letters on Yoga, SABCL Vol. 22, pp. 323-24.

Flower Name: Averrhoa carambola
Carambola tree, Starfruit

Significance: Organised Team-Work
Each in his place and all together.