Passage 10

In English

The next layer is called the related to the mind. If the is not there, then the and can-not exist. The is responsible for all kinds of thoughts and desires. One’s mind is really a bundle of desires. To some extent, this mind or the helps and becomes a support to the . The next layer is the . The has the function of enabling man to get the discriminatory power by which he distinguishes between good and bad. If there is no , the other layers , and will be lifeless and will not be able to function. This enables us to learn the nature of matter and how matter functions. We shall here give an example by which we will understand the inner meaning. This is a table and is made of wood. I am making an attempt to hit on this hard matter. When I describe this act of mine, I say that I have hit the table with my hand. This is not a full description. The table has also hit my hand equally strongly. The quality in you, which enables you to recognise the conduct of the table in this act, is the . This enables us to recognise whatever reactions and resounds exist in all the material world. We can take another example for this. When we open our eyes and look at the external view, we see so many people and so many heads. We ask if it is the eye which enables us to see all this or whether it is the light in the eyes that enables us to see all the heads? No, the light that exists outside the eye is helping the eyes to see all this. It is the joining together of the light that is present in your eyes and the light that is present outside your eyes that enables you to see all the things. We may ask, just because there is some light, does that enable us to see all this matter? It is not so; even if there is light outside the eyes, if you close your eyes, then you will not be able to see the matter which lies outside your eyes. If we regard that the external light is important, by closing our eyes we cannot see the matter. If we regard that the light in our eyes is important, if we extinguish the external light, we cannot see the matter. It is only when both are present that we can see the form of man. In this manner, the inner vision and the outer vision are together responsible for our vision. This is the function of the . Truly, if we are perceiving all the creation with our eyes, this creation is being seen because of our eyes. There is no creation separate from our eyes. What we see in the world are all reflections of the forms that are formed inside by our own inner vision. If an artist is painting a picture, he is not painting the picture straightway on the canvas. He first forms this picture in his mind and then he puts it on the canvas with paint. If a director of a cinema directs various actors to do this and to do that, he takes the preliminary steps by which he thinks of this picture in his own mind and then brings the actors into the picture. Similarly, every writer thinks of the theme in his own mind before he writes and then begins to write out the play. So, these thoughts and ideas, which emanate within oneself, have been called .