Significance of the Theory

 October 21, 2001

• Theory arises only when man is awake in his thinking mind, having crossed mental sensation, observation, relating one observation to another, imagining, judging, and discriminating.
• The first activity of the mind is mental sensation.
• Mental sensation enables the mind to be aware of the environment.
• Awareness of the environment is essential to protection and self-preservation.
• The vital relates to the environment enjoyably when it is sure of protection that preserves.
• Enjoyment of the vital is the enjoyment of energy.
• Mental enjoyment excels that of the energy in that the currents of energy undergo a further change into mental sensation.
• The mental sensation is the basis of thought formation though it does not compel mind to think.
• Mind's sensation is of five types which are initially unrelated.
• Coordination of these sensational experiences needs a centre. That centre is the vital ego in the mind.
• Thought takes shape in the mind when its components of observation, imagination, judgment, discretion, discrimination, analysis, synthesis, etc. are well formed.
• Initially when these are coordinated, the coordinating centre is the ego that becomes capable of responding to the outside.
• Response to the outside at best generates the capacity for analysis.
• Analysis, when it becomes objective, is capable of arriving at unity.
• Mind is capable of synthesis, which is essentially an inner process.
• Synthesis arrives at the inner unity in consciousness.
• When the outer analysis reflects inner synthesis, the whole man is born.
• A prior stage is Thought.
• For thought to deserve its appellation, it must be capable of some unity between the outer objectivity and the inner subjectivity.
• Theorising demands conceptual thought.
• Thought rises from below from the experience of the body and the exertion of the vital.
• They act and their role ends there.
• Neither the body nor the vital is capable of a self-awareness that leads them to discover what happened or how it happened.
• They act endlessly repeating their action and continuously learn whether their acts produced the intended results.
• When the result issues, they repeat for further results. When there is no result, they repeat in the hope of producing results. Neither the body nor the vital thinks, but the energy passing through them acts.
• It is the mind that records or observes their action.
• Thinking as we use the word is the act of coordination.
• It is the energy of this mental coordination that attracts the thought afloat outside and bothers the process of thinking.
• Concept formation is thought formation.
• Thought begins at the primary level of the first observation and proceeds until it can mature into will for action or thought that perceives the process of the act. Its final stage is its conception of the Absolute that moves.
• Our concern here is the concept formation that is capable of discerning the process of the act it takes note of so that a THEORY may be fashioned out of it.
• The process is the mind consciously looking for a process and a theory of that process.
• In nature, it happens unconsciously over centuries or long, long ages.
• That is a process of trial and error.
• Trial is there when you aim at a goal and you know a goal is there. Before that, every move is an act and it is neither trial nor error.
• The whole civilisation built up now is as a result of such efforts of Nature in us which, having stumbled upon some goals, went after them for repetition and consolidation. Nature acts and delights in acting. It learns in the process of acting which is incidental. It is not necessary for Nature to learn as it enjoys the very acting.
• Learning is a natural sequence which will rise at its own time, but Nature is not seeking for it or it does not know of such a goal.
• Man, who is a creature of Nature, acts, enjoys, survives and exists as Nature has infinity before her.
• Nature's process of learning, which is really not aimed at learning, is spread over millions of years, and when it consciously tries to reach a goal, its errors are as many.
• Man, the Nature in Man, takes over the effort when it becomes the unconscious effort of Man instead of the unconsciousness of Nature.
• At a certain stage, mind was born and it slowly developed the capacity to observe the outside at a distance, as the sky, and the outside inside.
• Astronomy and astrology were born thus.
• Mind in man acquiring the faculty of thinking, seeing the outside inside himself, has become capable of another type of observation different from what man knew of until then.
• This observation elevated man's existence. Copernicus' discovery is not out of the primitive sensational thinking, but out of the conceptual thinking that shaped in him.
• Man thus arrived at conceptualising his past experiences.
• Theory or theorising was born out of such concept formation.
• Such a theory eliminates millennia of trial and error and directly goes into action based on theoretical knowledge.
• When man, who had acted physically, moved to the mind after millions of years he became capable of thinking. Theory is the highest product of mind. Theorising is its highest faculty.
• By moving from trial and error of the body to the thinking and theorising of the mind, man moves millions of years in the process of civilising himself.
• In an act, there are three parts, one visible and the other two not visible.
• Result is a visible part and is considered most important.
• The process that brought about the result is occult to mind which when known enables endless results, while the result is a one time activity.
• Behind the process is the man who puts in the process. As there is the man behind the process, there is the Absolute behind all the processes and behind the man.
• To discover the man behind is to discover the spiritual Individual. To discover the Absolute behind is to acquire the capacity to monitor creation.
• Theory formation results by the discovery of the process of an act.
• The vast experience of humanity that civilised itself needs such a theory so that its future march can be conscious, error-free and swift.
• Now that documented results are there in all fields, the raw material for such a theory building is available.
• No theory issues out of the raw materials, but it does from the mind.
• Theory, whether it is arrived at from below from experience or from above from thinking, serves as theory equally well.
• To test the validity of such a theory is not difficult.
• The significance of the theory is different from the significant uses of it.

- That man has moved from the bodily functions to thinking is its primary significance.

- Theory is a pure mental activity that codifies the physical acts so as to extract the process by which they resulted.

- It abridges Time in a vast way.

- It eliminates errors in an enormous way.

- It brings the next millennium or the next century now.

- By theory building and acting on its basis, man ceases to be an active animal and starts being a thinking human entity.

- The physical tragedies and vital sufferings are changed into mental obstacles and confusions to be sorted out by thinking.