I and Mine (An Old and Rare Book)

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The relation entailed in the expression 'I and my mind' throws up many ideas. Can the 'I' or one's self (ego) be explained without taking the mind into consideration? Is it not true that the mind itself deeply involved with its own inventions is creating and explaining the 'I'. Is the intellect not a section of the mind? Is extrasensory knowledge real? There are plenty of such discussions and for thousands upon thousands of years they have been repeated in the same language. The knowledge of an average man occurs outside the limits of indirect experience. Therefore, the questions mentioned above have never been properly answered. The solution to these questions lies in steadying the mind. This very state is called self realization.

The experience made after the mind has been dissolved does not constitute knowledge acquired through the ear. It is the kind of knowledge which comes from the depth of consciousness out of reach for the mind. Knowledge acquired through the senses and the mind cannot exceed the limits of those instruments. But is knowledge limited to the scope of these instruments? Had it been so, scientific instruments would have been useless. Even the reach of the mind and that of the senses are different from each other. Had it not been so there would have been no ascending order in the stages of evolution. Whatever has become known to man in thousands of years is nothing more than a drop as compared to the ocean of the unknown. Without crossing that ocean, to aver that 'it is like this' (इदमित्थमेव) means denial of the unknown. How can any metaphysician agree to do so?

The three stages of consciousness-sensory, mental and intellectual-are tangible and perceptible, but the transcendental or trans-sensory stage is not tangible and perceptible. It is not so to that part of man which is made up of senses, mind and intellect. Therefore. even though being inseparable from consciousness, I am divided into outer consciousness and inner consciousness.