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THE FOUR PARTS
OF THE MIND
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n the yogic understanding,
there are 16 dimensions
to the human mind. These
16 dimensions fall into
four categories. These four
categories are known as buddhi,
manas, ahankara, and chitta.
Buddhi is the intellect – the
logical dimension of thought.
Unfortunately, the modern education
systems and modern sciences have largely
limited themselves to buddhi. That is a
buddhu (foolish) way of existence.
The Limitation of the Intellect
Buddhi or the intellect cannot function
without a certain bank of memory or
data. Depending on the data you have, the
intellect plays around. Suppose in your
memory system, there are 10 gigabytes of
memory. Depending on how sharp your
buddhi is, one person can produce, let’s say,
a trillion thoughts with these 10 gigabytes.
Someone else can produce 10 trillion
thoughts with the same 10 gigabytes of
memory.
If you can think a little better
than someone else, it is considered as
intelligence today. If someone says one
thing and you can say ten things to that,
you may be socially smart, but you are
not any more intelligent. Unfortunately,
in today’s systems of education and
academics, everything is determined by
this. If you can make more things out
of it, you are considered intelligent,
which is not true – you only have a sharper
buddhi. The buddhi will not take you
beyond limits in any way, because it can
only function based on the data that is
already there. It is not capable of accessing
anything beyond that.
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The Memory of Your
Forefathers
The next dimension is called
manas. Manas is a complex
amalgam of memory and has
many layers to it. Manas is not
just the brain – it is right across
the body. Every cell in the body
has a phenomenal memory – not
just of this life but of millions
of years. Your body clearly
remembers how your forefathers
were a million years ago. Top to
bottom, there is manas – this is
called manomaya kosha.
What you call as your body
and your mind are a certain
accumulation of memory. It is
because of memory – or you can
call it information – that your
body has taken the particular
shape that it has. For example,
if a man eats a piece of
bread, the bread becomes
a man. If a woman eats
it, it becomes a woman.
If a dog eats the same
bread, it becomes a dog.
That’s a smart piece of
bread! No, it is not
the bread but the
kind of memory that one’s
system carries that transforms bread into a
man, woman or dog.
Your very existence is an accumulation
of memory. If we take away all the
memory, you will cease to exist. This is
what people mean when they talk about
karma nashana – if you destroy all memory,
the very being ceases to exist. That is
a state of mukti because you are free
from existence – you don’t have to exist
anymore because
your very existence
is memory.
There is
memory and
intelligence in
every cell in
the body, but no
intellect. Intellect
is only in the brain.
In English language,
everything comes under
one banner called “mind.”
The idea that intelligence
is only in the brain has
produced human beings
whose consciousness is
seriously constipated. What
is in the brain is intellect, not
intelligence. Intelligence and
memory are right across
your body. But people have
never been trained how
to use this intelligence.
Instead, they use their
intellect for everything.
No wonder they are
stressed out whatever
job you give them. The
whole weight is on
only one dimension
of the mind out of
sixteen. It is like loading
a sixteen-wheeler truck and trying to drive
on only one wheel – you can imagine the
stress! That is what today’s world is going
through.
People may be using other dimensions
of the mind marginally, unconsciously,
but they are not trained to use them. They
have only been trained to use their buddhi,
or their intellect. They are very smart.
They know everything about everything,