The Mind

By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Oct 15, 2025

The Subconscious The programme of personal growth gets the greatest resistance from the subconscious (the Freudian Unconscious) and the Inconscience and dealing with them is an important part of the...

By Dr. Soumitra Basu — Jan 15, 2025

The embodied mind, which has a separative view of the universe, is actually an individualised formation of the universal mind which itself is a multi-layered plane of consciousness. The individual mind is not, as mistakenly considered, the brain but it needs the brain for its expression. There are however several gradations of consciousness beyond and above the level of the mind-brain interaction. Sri Aurobindo has explained that there is a subliminal or inner mind behind the separative mentality of the outer mind that extends to the universal mind or the cosmic consciousness. He has also described higher levels above the ordinary mind dealing with supra-cognitive (or meta-cognitive matrices).

By The Mother — Oct 15, 2024

6 — Late, I learned that when reason died then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

By The Mother — Apr 24, 2024

How can we find out the reason for things? If we try to do it with the mind, will it not be yet another illusion screening the Truth?