Ideology and Personality

The Cosmic Consciousness acts as the witnessing entity with the help of His Mindpower.

• The wavelength of this Mindpower is infinite.
• So we say that it flows in a straight line.

The atman is the witnessing entity of the unit mind.

• When the mind takes the atman as its object, the mental waves will get straightened gradually.
  • This is done by complete surrender.
  • There is no other way because the mind is the object of the átman.
• In the end, that mind’s wavelength will become infinite.
  • Those waves will also flow in a straight line.
  • The mind will then get transformed into the átman.
  • This state is called samádhi.

Thus, the psychic waves attain a parallelism with the spiritual waves of the átman.

• This psycho-spiritual parallelism is known as “idea” or bháva.
• When this idea is conceived on the psychic level, it is “ideology”.

Ideology, therefore, is merely the conception of idea.

• “Ideology” involves in it a spiritual sense.
• It is an inspiration which has a parallelism with the Spiritual Entity.

Hence, it is wrong to call some materialistic or political principles of a person, party, nation or federation as an “ideology”.

Mental-physical Parallelism

Sound is in its initial stage a psychic wave.

We hear a sound, but the concept of the word uttered is not clear till the mental waves are brought in contact with the physical concept involved.

A child hears the word “cat”.

• He sees a cat and the mother says, “See, my son, that is a cat.”
• The boy associates the word “cat” with the actual cat.

That means he establishes a parallelism between:

• the mental waves created by the sound “cat” and
• the physical wave coming from the physical form of the cat.

Hence:

• a word or sound is a mental wave which represents a physical thing.
• a meaning is therefore a parallelism between mind and matter, as mental-physical parallelism
  • this parallelism can be either direct or indirect.

Indirect parallelism is when the physical object expressed in the mental word is not perceived directly.

• The physical parallelism cannot be made directly
• Instead, it is made with the help of:
  • some internal saḿskára already formed or
  • some description made by some other source.

Mental-physical parallelism always tends to make the mental waves cruder.

• If the mental wave gets cruder, human beings will be transformed into cruder beings*.
• They take the path of reverse subtilification.

But in daily life, we must establish mental-physical parallelism.

• But this does not mean that human destiny sealed forever.

We can impose the spiritual wave over the physical wave

• We do this by perceiving the physical wave as one of the manifestations of the spiritual infinite One.
• This is what we mean by Brahmacarya.
  • It is the assimilation of the unit mind’s mental wave into the eternal waves of the Macrocosm.

We give a practical method for this spiritual imposition to prevent the mental waves from becoming cruder.

• We have a practice of spiritual auto-suggestion (bháva sádhaná) at the time of action.
• This makes the mind tend towards Brahmacarya and thereby towards mental-spiritual parallelism, the only way to ultimate liberation.

To attain mental liberation, the mental waves must be made subtler. This is only possible by:

• entertaining only subtler mental waves or
• an inspiring spiritual force that makes the mental waves parallel with spiritual ones.

Personality

Complete development of the integrated personality is essential for perfect spiritual realization of the human being.

Personality is a collaborated composition of 3 bodies:

1. The physical body or jad́ádhára
2. The mental body or bhávádhára
3. The spiritual or supramental body, or cetanádhára.

Food and Struggle

The proper development of each body is essential. This is done by:

• proper food
  • This nourishes the body
• proper struggle
  • This purifies the body

Physical Food and Struggle

Spiritual aspirants must be careful about their food.

• Physical labour is the struggle in the physical field.

Mental or Metaphysical Food and Struggle

Mental food is sourced from ideas that represent mental-spiritual parallelism.

Faiths devoid of any rationality prevailed in ancient days and were supported by our forefathers.

• Mental struggle results from aggressive adoption of newer and progressive thoughts instead of blindly clinging to such faiths.

Spiritual Food and Struggle

The spiritual body is the higher mind.

• It is a subtler taste or higher taste.

When the microcosm keeps itself absorbed in the Macrocosm:

• the meaner and cruder thoughts wave away.
• the spiritual body gets strengthened by longing for the Great – an intense desire to be for Him.
  • This is the real bhakti or devotion.
  • This is the ultimate and only way to final liberation or final union.

Shrii Shrii Shankaracharya has declared bhakti as the best way to mokśa.