The area we are analysing is very complicated and mostly understood only by experiential knowledge. So the need to slice it into smaller portions becomes essential for understanding. Let us see the ‘mind, consciousness and memory’ with the example of group meditation, to get a better picture.
When we meditate as a group, and go deep into meditation, we first come in contact with our individual unconscious mind. Then some of us scream, cry and some others dance, whirl and sing. All these activities arise from our individual consciousness. And by the end of the first stsge of meditation, we cease to be individuals; we all become a collectivity, collective whole. This is the moment when we go deep in meditation and touch those levels of the mind which are part of the collective mind. Then we don’t feel that we are dancing- it feels that dance is happening and we are just part of it, the cosmic dance. Then we don’t feel that we are, it feels that only existence is and everything in existence is dancing; stars are dancing, mountains are dancing, birds are dancing and every particle under the sun are dancing. Then our dance becomes a small but integral part of universal dance. This experience is coming from our contact with the collective unconsciousness.
Just below the collective unconsciousness lies the world of cosmic unconsciousness. We arrive there via the collective unconsciousness; and once we are connected with the cosmic unconsciousness our awareness undergoes a complete change. Then we cease to feel that we are part of the whole, rather we know that we and the whole are one- we are not part of the total, rather we know we are totality itself. And then we suddenly remember who we are; this remembrance shoots up like an arrow from the depths of cosmic unconsciousness and fills our conscious mind. Then we also know, and know simultaneously, that this awareness that we are the ‘Brahman’, the ultimate, the supreme is nothing new- it has always been with us, buried deep in our cosmic unconscious.
Dr Dwarakanath (MItran Foundation)
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