(Dec 20,2013 ) Spiritual Message for the Day –Fourfold Nature Of The Psyche by Swami Chidananda

Fourfold Nature Of The Psyche

Divine Life Society Publication: The Eye Of The Hurricane by Swami Chidananda

The Reality within is the eternal part of the Universal Essence. The physical body part of the material world and the psyche within which makes one human (a unique creature of God) are part of phenomena, subject to change. It is this psyche that through millennia has acquired its fourfold characteristic.

Firstly, it is outgoing in its nature. It can only go out; it is not capable of going in. I am not talking about the introvert-extrovert classification of modern Western psychologists. I am talking about the essential nature of the mind-stuff, the cosmic mind-stuff, a part of which is in each one of us. The nature of the mind-stuff, mind-principle, is outgoing.

Secondly, even for a split-second it cannot function without objectifying itself upon something or the other. Its processes can function only in terms of color, shape and object. Objectless thoughts are an impossibility of the mind. If you try to make it objectless, immediately it will go into slumber. It has either to think of things or it will go to sleep. It will drowse and slumber.

The third inveterate tendency, even in its objectivity, is its state of vacillation. Thinking of one thing, it cannot retain thought of that one thing for any length of time. Within a few seconds it has to think of something else, then of something else, then of a third thing, etc. Always it flits, like a monkey jumping from branch to branch of a tree.

Fourthly, it always is prone to reaction. Either in a state of attraction or repulsion, like or dislike, love or hate, it either says “Yes” or “No”; it can never say, “Let everything be. I am what I am”. That absolute state of balance, of stability, of refusing to be disturbed from its nature of serenity and peace; is unknown to the mind. It has to react and it is this that keeps up our inner spiritual disease of darkness or non-awareness or unconsciousness. It is this nature of the mind that keeps this state confirmed, always there.

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Fourfold Nature Of The Psyche:  The Eye Of The Hurricane by Swami Chidananda
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