Instinct Intelligence Intuition
Let us see how our mind works, and how we work through our minds from three different levels of instinct, intelligence and intuition.
As long as all your decisions are conscious and you are aware why and how you are doing something, why you are thinking this way, you are in the intelligence level. If you are not aware and conscious of your thought process and feel guilty about your actions you are at instinct level. If you are doing or not, and yet you are continuously at blissful level you are at intuition level.
How do we process information? When we see something, we perceive the object through the energy controlling our eyes, called chaksu, which is a digital signal processor. The digital file goes to our memory, called chitta, and from there to our mind, manas. The file then takes a leap into our ego, ahankara.
Chitta, our memory*, decides what the information is not, to arrive at what it is. For instance, what I see is not a plant, not an animal etc, na iti, na iti*, to decide what it is. Manas, our mind later comes into the picture and says this is a man who is conducting a class; it identifies the object as a man. Then the digital file, already processed my memory and mind, leaps into the ego, which based on past experiences decides whether to sit in the class or to go out.
Ego decides and you express and act on that decision. This zone of ego is not under your control. Ego is a collection of impressions, past memories, or samskaras. These samskaras force you to take illogical, unconscious decisions. You decide to smoke knowing logically fully well that it is bad for health. You still go ahead. You have no control. Samskaras come up and confuse you, depress you, disturb you, stress you; they can change the whole course of your life. They can create conflicts and suffering. Samskaras are the sub conscious layer of our mind.
Let us say that the time taken for the digital file to travel from our eye energy to mind, through memory, is Tp. Till this point the process is logical and clear. Time taken for unconscious process, mind to ego, through samskaras, which distort your file and twist your decisions is Tq. As long as Tp is more than Tq you will be more aware of your unconscious. If not, you are unaware and act on instinct. You are restless. You decide without knowing what you are doing. When the samskaras are more, and they move faster without your knowledge, you are in trouble. If time taken for conscious process is more than the time taken for the unconscious, if Tq is greater than Tp, you act instinctively. If Tp equals Tq, you are in Intelligence level. You will live your life without guilt. When Tp is greater than Tq, you are in super conscious level; your unconscious is infused with silence and intuition.
In Patanjali's Yoga system, the fifth limb Pratyahara works on taking your mind from all outward objects. Ahara is food and pratyahara is moving away from that food. This ahara, the food, is taken in not only from your mouth but also from all 5 senses energizing your memory. Pratyahara is moving away from ahara. If you stop this intake of sensory food, memory is given a rest.
Dharana, the sixth limb of Patanjali Yoga*, is about focusing on one subject only. Then mind rests. Dharana* is flow, mind's flow towards one object. The seventh limb of Patanjali Yoga, Dhyana (being witness) is about infusing consciousness, spirit into your unconscious zone; this is spirituality; then this unconscious zone also rests. These three give rest to memory, mind and unconscious zone. All your samskaras disappear. They are burnt away. Your third eye opens when you start witnessing and your awareness happens, and you realize everything is a dream, and you are out of the dream. This is what the puranas talk about when they talk about Shiva burning Manmata with his third eye. He burnt all his samskaras.
When you infuse consciousness and silence into this unconscious zone you burn all your engrams, you become Shiva, and you reach super conscious level. When Tp is less than Tq you are an animal; if equal you are human; if Tp is greater you are divine.
J Krishnamurthy says: Only once if you can witness your emotions without moving your body, with out support or suppression, you will see very clearly that the emotion, the samskara, loses power over you. If you support it, it grows. If you suppress it, it leads to perversions.
Why should you follow spirituality? Why follow a Master? If you do not, you follow your samskaras. You become slaves to something far less uplifting.
Infusing silence, bringing thoughtless awareness to your unconscious zone is your ultimate liberation. You become videhi, one who is outside his body even when he is in his body. When you suddenly remember something that disturbs, you create an energy clot; there is less space in your Being. When you meditate on your inner space you expand. That is possible only when you do not have engrams, no energy clots within you, which disturb you.
From a young age you are taught your samskaras. You accumulate them. When you are attracted to something intensely or hate something intensely you collect files on them. One kind of logic: all men have one head, Socrates is a man; you can conclude Socrates is a man. Another: there are two doors; one door is open, what about the other? You can not say. The second logic is the logic of intelligence. You need to be aware for this logic. Why we collect more and more engrams is because we are not aware, we are not using this logic process.