Parts and Planes of the Being and Their Extensions

June 10, 2001 

• Body, vital, mind, Spirit and Supermind are the parts of our being.
• The Spirit which is called spiritual mind range is described in the ascending order of Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind.
• Each of these parts extends into subtle and causal planes.
• Mind as it extends in the spiritual mental range, descends below in inner mind, subliminal mind and subconscious mind.
• By Mind we mean the physical mind on the surface.
• These terms do extend into the surface being, inner being, subliminal being and subconscious being.
• They similarly apply to the vital and physical.
• The spiritual mind range is the superconscient culminating in what we call Supracosmic, Superconscient, which is the opposite of the Inconscient where it forgets itself.
• The subliminal is born where the Superconscient and the subconscient meet.
• The subconscient is the repository of the race memory in us.
• Neither the subtle nor the inner is spiritual.
• The subliminal extends or is capable of extending all over the universe.
• The Manomaya Purusha - witness soul - is in the inner mind.
• The psychic is buried in a cave in the subliminal.
• By Being we mean the embodied being, the body and mind assumed by the conscious soul for its earthly life.
• All the terms above - Sat, Chit, Ananda, Supermind - are found in all the terms below, but involved in various degrees.
• Thought: It is gross when verbalised in the mind. It is subtle before it is put into words and it is in existence in impulse. The thought can become causal when it is a Supramental thought capable of intuition. Thoughts float in the atmosphere, enter us through our body, rise to the mind to find expression as speech.
• Thought, He says, can seek the Absolute.