THE MIND (Continued)- PART 2

Now lets use a very wide-angle camera lens and view the mind through the brain, heart and chakra’s! Let us explore it in physical human terms. Where is your mind? Which part of you contains the mind? What indeed comprises of what you call your mind?

Of course most of us would point to somewhere around or over our head and ‘feel’ our mind ‘up there’. But let us understand that what we instinctively point to is the brain- and the mind is not the brain! The brain is the physical apparatus, the interface or interacting point between the mind and the body. In analogy the electricity that comes into our homes is the mind; the bulbs are the body; and the electricity circuit or switchboard is the brain. We think of the brain as the mind because this is where our ‘circuit board’ is…where we feel the interaction taking place and so instinctively we think of our mind as only ‘up there’…!

Thus it is important to know that the mind is not physical at all! The mind (as we have seen in the introduction) is indeed energy vibrating at different frequencies… an energy field …and ‘your’ mind thus is ‘your’ energy field vibrating at the different frequencies of your many thoughts, your feelings, your beliefs… past present and future! It is significant to know that our feelings and thoughts are what science refers to as our “brainwaves”; and our beliefs as our ‘brain patterns’!

These different frequencies at which our different thoughts, feelings and beliefs vibrate (our various energy signatures) are the so-called different ‘parts’ of the mind! They are but a range of vibrations or levels of awareness. Simply put: the deeper or wider the awareness, the faster the vibration, and higher or purer the mind! We all have thoughts of different frequencies: some are what we call (without judgment) of ‘lower’ density and some of a ‘higher’ frequency… and together they make up what we call our lower and higher mind.

And if you can view this pictorially as you read… if you can actually view the mind as an energy field-not synonymous with the brain- it facilitates the understanding that, while the mind is not physical, it is contained in, or operates through the entire body. Our mind is in our toes…in our head… in every organ, every cell, every atom, and every particulate! And if you take this visual to it natural extension…you will view how the mind has no partitions, it’s not compartmentalized within us...nor is it delineated from the rest of energy! You will view how your mind is not restricted to your physical body and thus not separate from the Energy that pervades ….all that is…!

Most of us already know everything we see or don’t is energy! What we ‘see’: a chair, a table, a mike … a rock, a plant, a bird or a human… indeed everything… is a thought form of this same energy; and everything that you can’t see, what we call empty space, is this same energy but yet molded by thought and thus pure. Thus by viewing our mind as this same ‘energy’, it is clearer for us to understand how our mind- our energy field - extends infinitely …‘horizontally’ and ‘vertically’… towards our environment and world and its people and things and events. And towards what we call our higher mind, soul, universal consciousness to the pure consciousness of the One Mind…God…! Our mind when viewed in energy terms is literally connected to All That Is! (The soul is your energy vibrating at a higher frequency. It’s not a gold packet up there)

And this understanding is very significant because it helps us to truly understand what this much touted mind expansion is all about! What we are gaining through gyan/knowledge…be it through classes, satsangs, channelings, books, emails, teachers or Guru’s! I emphasize this aspect because many of us wonder where does all this information, knowledge, understanding…gyan take us? How does it help? What does it do? Where does it end? And having received this understanding of the mind, I for the first time understood what mind expansion really is! Why ‘growth’ or ‘improved lives’ (call it what you may) “happens”…“automatically” through it! I finally saw how we are literally extending and stretching our current awareness (mind/self) to mingle with universal awareness (universal mind/Selves)! Thus do our vibrations (energy signatures) “automatically” becoming ‘finer’, ‘purer’, and ‘godlike! This works both ways- the higher frequencies disempower and resist the lower, plus they attract more and more of the higher, finer, and purer… Thus do we find our thoughts and feelings “automatically” improving… (This happens at two levels: as core & universal concepts expand so do our day-to-day thoughts and feelings) and thus do our lives ‘automatically’ reflect this expanded mindset! Also please note: Auto means: Self! Through self-awareness, do selves’ actions reflect accordingly! Action is the subconscious response of the conscious mind.

Most of us are aware that what is within us is what reflects outside us! The physical, which we take to be ‘real’, is the reflection; and the mind –our feelings & thoughts that we considered intangible is the real consciousness! Naturally as it expands, the outer enhances! Imagine operating from universal mind! Beyond duality… where unconditional love is a state of being, not something to be achieved! Where forgiveness, non-judgment, acceptance and all those qualities (or mind set) that we yearn for are but natural! Imagine its physical reflection: truly heaven on earth! And yes gyan, mind expansion helps us get ‘there’…literally!

And as to where does all this ‘end’? Universal Consciousness…God… is a state of Being… ever expanding and fulfilling Itself… there is no ‘end’! Thus there is infinite scope for mind to expand and its experiences to reflect likewise! For us to create better and better realities… ad infinitum… ‘outside’ us! And not only on our physical realm but when we expand our energy fields and become beings of higher dimensions…we will then create better and better universes indeed! What a canvas- truly can mind expansion be called an Arabian nights journey- an infinitely and eternally deepening of fulfillment…!

I hope you have got a deeper sense of what mind expansion is, and you don’t brush it off as some abstract endeavor, disconnected from the realities of life! Yet this is only one view of mind and thus what its expansion implies…we are going to look at it in deeper ways!


Now let us become aware that if the mind operates through out the body, and the brain, as a physical apparatus is just a physical counterpart of where the mind meets the body, so is the heart! The physical heart pumps blood and does its physical activities… but the heart center, what we call the heart chakra, is where pure consciousness meets our personal energy fields…and thus is vital part of the mind! Indeed it is the heart that has been called the seat of the subconscious mind!

And why is the heart-center the subconscious mind? All of us are aware of our feelings…but under every palpable feeling, there are a multitude of thoughts and beliefs and ideas, which actually give rise to the feelings! The feelings are only the surface; the more conspicuous energy vibrations based on the numerous thoughts and beliefs underneath, which we are not aware of-which are unobserved- and thus are part of what we call the sub-conscious mind. (There is no feeling without an underlying chain of thoughts/beliefs. You might say, “no I just feel that”- but if you really sit down and introspect, you will find a host of un-observed thoughts underlying any feeling. When enough of these thoughts gain ‘mass’, they rise to your conscious mind as easily observable feelings–in the heart! )

Thus what this implies -and perhaps you are already feeling the ‘eureka’- is that as we are expanding our ‘mind’… we are expanding our heart too! This is important to understand from two points of view: and I first share what was very significant to me! We always think of the heart as separate from the mind, and it used to really trouble me! I would feel “I am on this ‘mind expansion’ and ‘knowledge’ path…but what about all the emotions of the heart…? What about compassion and acceptance and ‘love’ and bhakti?” But through this understanding-which was a big personal eureka-I realized that through mind expansion, is automatic heart expansion… towards pure consciousness! And with pure consciousness increasingly a part of my energy field…its higher expressions is but natural! For the first time I understood why through gyan- knowledge of Self, Universe and God- do we ‘become’ more loving! Why acceptance, non-judgment and indeed all such ‘purer’ feelings happen to become a part of self- effortlessly and without ‘attempting’ or ‘practicing’ these qualities!

Secondly-as the seat of the subconscious mind- we are naturally expanding that too-and from the earlier understanding of the sub conscious mind we already have a glimpse of how significant this must be. Briefly: by expanding the subconscious mind and raising its frequencies to the ‘higher, finer, and purer’…we are altering our minute-to-minute energy signature and thus there are less hurdles for what we consciously choose! Plus…as the subconscious merges with pure consciousness, learning translates to wisdom…or what is called gnosis (pure knowing beyond thinking and feeling) and of course as the merger deepens - we are moving towards super consciousness!(subconscious becoming conscious)


This brings us to another vital area of understanding the mind- that which is known as the chakric system! Chakra is a term often used in esoteric or self-growth parlance, and we may now comprehend better what these spiritual vortices really are.

Simply put: like the brain and heart are an interface between our larger mind (consciousness and energy) and our body the chakra’s are an etheric interface! They are indeed vital doorways connecting us to unbounded energy fields –horizontally to our environment, our world and our planet or vertically to soul, universe and Godself! Thus chakras are vital mind centers… or what we refer to as ‘part’ of our mind! We have already explored how the mind is actually present in, or operating from, each and every cell –indeed the entire body. So if you were to really think of it and observe and ask yourself: "Where is my mind?" “Where am I thinking from?”-Your answer will differ every time- and often you would observe an area that is called a chakra- with different chakras covering different (range of) thoughts.

Each chakra is related to certain frequencies… to a certain range of thoughts… a certain segment of what you call the mind! For example when you think thoughts of love, you will feel it at the heart chakra; when you think thoughts of joy, abundance, security they will be from the root chakra; when you fear it is often from the sacral…as is when you feel beautiful…when its about power you are operating from the solar plexus (each chakra covers a very wide range, somewhat overlapping, so these are only basic examples and the detailed range connected to each chakra is not within the scope of this article)

In a visual analogy we may view our chakras as entry points from where we contact consciousness... vibrations from all directions… the energy fields that surround us whether it is of our own higher mind (Buddhi/ intellect), or human consciousness, or universal consciousness. While there are innumerable chakra’s, each being a doorway to our mind, we may view the 7 main chakras as our 7 main doors-revolving doors would be a better picture- through which these energies ‘come in’ to our physical body and become the thoughts and feelings that we feel on a physical level (filtered by those you already hold) - and ‘exit outwards’ as our emanations impacting your worlds. This visual also helps us ‘view’ how a fine network- often called the grid- connects everyone and everything to all that is.

And another eureka for the more esoteric minded readers, who work with their chakras: as we expand our ‘mind’…our thoughts connected to those chakras expand (or our vibrations connected to those chakra’s become finer and purer) and what we call chakra cleansing is taking place. This is what chakra cleansing is! Removing the limited beliefs, feelings, thoughts…or raising the denser energy frequencies based on separation and ignorance. We are indeed removing the veils, so you can call it cleansing …or expansion! Esoterically the veils are ‘knots’ in the chakra’s, which unravel as we become more aware of Self! Naturally this automatically leads to heightened intuition and even ‘psychic’ or healing skills…!

For those concerned with spiritual service…or their purpose to be…one more eureka! Through mind expansion you are literally vibrating at higher and finer and purer energies and like a radio transmitter you are emanating that 24/7! You can go to work…you can go on holiday…you can do whatever it is you are doing… and yet you are in spiritual service! Because as you expand your ‘mind’ (you are now aware how this is synonymous with raising your frequencies) beyond the critical mass of human consciousness you have the ‘power’ to affect human consciousness, rather than be affected by it. ‘Higher/finer’ frequencies are not affected by the ‘lower/denser’ and indeed the lower inherently move towards the higher- this is a universal law of how energy is! This is being a light worker! Spreading light= Your energy fields =vibrations =awareness and love!

And friends, it doesn’t end here either! Because any in-depth exploration of the mind must understand the so-called ego…The ego, like the chakra’s is an intangible part of the mind. It is the interface between our current mind and our outer reality, which indeed allows ‘me’ to interact with my physical world! Quote Seth: “ The ego is the apparatus by which your mind navigates its physical reality”

At this point I must say that we usually believe the ego is to be shunned, and removed; we view it as an obstacle on our spiritual path- but in truth, we cannot remove the ego! It is our very navigator for the physical experience! The eyes of the mind …so to say looking outwards… we would not be able to live without it! It is that part of the mind, which uses all of the above, input to create and experience our outer reality!

It is also our identity …indeed the Sanskrit word for it is Aham -I NESS- and thus I prefer the word ‘identity’, because the word ‘ego’ has many preconceived notions attached to it. This ‘I ness’ indeed keeps all our (for example divyaa, Mayank, Kavita, Anju’s) experiences separate from each other. Otherwise we will be one ‘cosmic soup’ and we didn’t become ‘many’ to be ‘one cosmic soup’. It is that part of the mind which delineates ‘my’ energy field of experiences- my mind- from another’s (as long as this ‘individuation’ experience is required).

And thus what we really need to ‘do’ is expand the ego to merge with our higher consciousness…so that its ‘sight/navigation’ will work accordingly in our outer world! So that our I NESS expands to include higher selves, universal self, godself! We need to indeed make friends with our ego…not shun or suppress it…towards expanding with us!

And again the eureka: through mind expansion is ego expansion! Which is removing the limitations of the ego (ignorance and separation) and not the ego itself! This is what is really implied when spiritualists tell us to eliminate the ego! Through mind expansion the ego merges with higher finer purer vibrations…its identity blends with vaster aspects of self and consciousness and thereby it’s denser limiting and separating vibrations recede! Thus is automatic removal of the egos limitations, or expansion of the ego call it what you may! Expansion from i to I! Thereby creating enhanced realties for self and selves… our environment and our world!

Dearest readers, it must be becoming clearer how and why your mind is more accurately your personal energy field. And I hope you will also better understand mind expansion: why words, why knowledge, why awareness really helps…off the academic blackboard and indeed in our so-called real, physical and day-to-day lives!

Mind expansion can be done at many levels: a) expanding our awareness of universal concepts and truths- self, god, destiny, free will, good and bad and desire etc (gyan) b) on a more personal level, through self introspection and ‘knowing thyself’ c) meditation…which helps us go beyond words to purer aspects of consciousness d) last but not least, conscious living on a 24/7 basis! Each adds to mind expansion geometrically! To give you a visual, mind expansion can take place without any of the above, indeed through living life and learning through its experiences and up’s and downs; however when you add gyan, you hasten the speed, or widen the scope; like wise each above component adds in its own ways; yet each on its own will also lead you to the same point eventually!

So now become aware that each time you truly comprehend self, life, and universal truths… with every Eureka…you have just stretched the mind! This stretching leads to increasing your frequencies or vibrations! When critical mass (a series of such Eureka’s so to say) is reached …knowledge translates into wisdom…gnosis…who or what you are, rather than merely what you think

Some more Eureka’s for the more esoteric minded readers: This is what initiations also mean…your mind has stretched to new level of awareness- a higher frequency- reprogramming has taken place so to say! Indeed even the esoteric concept of raising your kundalini can be viewed through mind expansion and thereby extension of your energy fields- and operating from higher and higher chakra’s! Now you may also better understand why we feel good in the presence of Masters, physical or channeled: it is but natural as their ‘minds’ intermingle with us! Indeed a visual I receive is that in each such meeting they leave behind ‘bits’ of their mind (vibrations) in ours! You are perhaps aware that higher energy is not affected by the lower/denser…thus when their frequencies are present in our energy fields/minds, everything in us yearns, moves and rises towards it! That is why our ancient texts said our Masters Grace could take away our sins away or wash away our karma! Because their potent vibrations can indeed impact our energy fields and our lower vibrations- fears, limiting beliefs…karma- in powerful ways! You may also view The Mind as The Matrix…an interlacing field of energies connecting to each individual, and while we have briefly looked at chakras above, it is through our higher chakras that we indeed connect to human consciousnesses/matrix (chakra 8); chakra 9 connects us to the planetary matrix consciousnesses or mind! Chakra 10 to galactic -Chakra 11 to universal -chakra 12 to Source or Divine consciousnesses Itself…and as we expand mind we are indeed operating more and more through these chakra’s too! The term light bodies – etheric, astral, mental, buddhic, bliss body- also refers to our energy fields-another way of understanding the mind! Each being a different kind of frequency and thus color etc! With the physical body being its reflection much like the outer world is! Indeed if you really think of it…the mind doesn’t tire as we sometimes say! It is the physical cells that tire or age…the mind is pure energy!

Mind indeed is all-pervasive! It is what I (as Godself) create to experience THAT I AM. In human terms it is the apparatus to be in and explore existence.