5. Camp Five : Types of Mind

As such, the mind is only one, but it is experienced in two ways. One is conscious mind which is also called outer mind or extrovert mind, and the other is unconscious mind which is called inner mind or introvert mind too. Very small portion of our consciousness is manifested in our conscious mind. It is full of various types of desires. When controversy arises in these desires, our mind becomes disturbed and as a result, we experience fatigue in our body.

Through meditation, concentration is achieved first and then comes deep concentration. In concentrated state, the opposition of thoughts is demolished, hence a wastage of lots of energy is saved. Thus concentration protects lots of energy, whereas in complete concentration, energy gets up stored. That is why the energy is fully stored up in Samadhi.

The mind spread out in each and every cells of our physical body is our subconscious mind. It remains active all the while, reconstructs and protects our body. In stones, vegetation, insects, birds and human beings, the unconscious mind is equally pervaded and active. In animals, birds and vegetation, conscious mind is dormant, so unconscious mind gets full freedom, and that is why stone's age and structure remains as it is for a long time. In vegetation, as the proportion of conscious mind being less, its reconstruction and preservation process becomes very powerful. As a result, the banyan trees, Peepal tree and other trees exist for decades. Among birds and animals, insects and small creatures, diseases are much less compared to human beings. The cause thereof is that their unconscious mind is stronger than the conscious mind, hence the reconstruction and preservation process of their body structure is natural and obvious.

World-renowned psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud says : 'In our day-to-day life. many incidents are happening and it apparently seems that we are forgetting them, but in fact, nothing can be forgotten. Everything is being stored in our subconscious mind. This suppressed memory itself leads us. We call it intuition. When we live against our intuition or self-motivation, deformity occurs in our mind. This absurd condition is expressed in the form of rage/anger or criticism. But when such things happen again and again and that deformity can not show its ugly face, it damages our unconscious mind. Consequently, a sort of imbalance occurs in the unconscious mind which by passing of time takes the form of bodily deseases.

Dr. Sigmund Freud classified mind into three categories: ID, EGO and Super EGO. In ID, primitive type of instincts of our forefathers are stored. Whatever instinctive urges and activities were concentrated around food, sleep, fear and sexuality as life lived by primitive men are preserved in lD. On the innate urge of EGO, our entire attitude depends, whereas Super EGO is firmly founded by our Sanskaras and beliefs. On account of beliefs, quarrels and wars have been fought through centuries in this world between nations, communities, religions, castes and even among persons too.

A man is prepared to give up everything but he is not ready to leave his own beliefs because they are deep rooted in his super ego.

When awakened, these instincts remain unexpressed due to the bondage of Sankaras, but in sleep, they try to be expressed by dreams. As all the instincts would like to be expressed at a time, they come out in deformed manner. Moreover ID, EGO and Super EGO are expressed together, so dreams are not co-ordinated. lf we try to narrate our dreams seen during whole night, hardly five to six lines could be written. The reason is most of our dreams are futile and complicated.

Smaller or bigger diseases affecting our bodies are not casual, but they are causal. Frequent obstruction in the function of our subconscious mind is the root-cause of illness. There was a saintly gentleman named Sri Sri Thakure Anukulchandra in Bengal.

One early morning, a devotee named Durganath approached him and said : 'O Thakure, I have been suffering from severe dysentery for months together. In spite of taking regular doses of medicines, it is not cured at all. So please have mercy and do some favor to me. 'Sri Thakure replied: 'Oh, is that so? O.K. Now you will be absolutely alright within no time without any medicines by grace of God. Please take mid-day meals over here and then and only then you can go to your home.'

Sri Thakure got new coarse rice and dal of val(beans) cooked for him. Durganath was caught in two minds at lunch time. Sri Thakure at once made out his mental sentiments, so he told : 'My dear brother, don't be afraid of anything. So please, start eating and do eat untill you are satisfied. Durganath immediately started eating his favorite meal. When he was fully saturated, Thakure advised him to go to bed and take rest. After a long nap, when Durganath awoke, he was quite fine. When he could not find any symptoms of dysentery, he asked Sri Thakure : 'O Lord, how has this disease been cured in spite of taking adverse food-stuff? Sir, the cause-effect relationship cannot be found at all in this case.'

Sri Thakure explained him : 'When you approached me, I had read your subconscious mind and came to know that before sometime you had an intense desire to eat your favorite dish of coarse rice and val, but due to some unavoidable circumstances, you could not fulfill your craving. As that strong desire was suppressed in your subconscious mind, there was a deformity in the muscles of your intestine.This pain had been emerged from that mental reason, so however this food seems to be irrelevant, your disease and pain could be cured only by the fulfillment of your desire.'

Thus there is a great impact of our mind set on our health. That is the reason why the psychologists do not rely on medicines but resort to sympathy, warmth and compassion. They bring out the suppressed instinctive urges and cure the diseases.

Dr. Freud has opined for the method of catharsis. lf a person suffers from pain, stress, anxiety etc, bring them out. At a solitary place, sit in a pleasant atmosphere. Note down thoughts springing up in your mind on the piece of paper and write the complaints against things that you dislike the most. Read that paper again and again and make addition to the list. One-day, after reading them frequently tear the paper. Doing this act repeatedly, mind will be fresh. As an alternative to this catharsis method of Dr.Freud, the best remedies are prayers and recitation. Negative sentiments are uprooted during prayers and mind is cleansed on account of reciting the name of God.

By means of continuous recitation of God's name the instincts of faith towards God start playing in the subconscious as well as conscious mind. As a result of which, the instincts of attachment are repressed and gradually fed up. Of course, faith plays a vital role in it. lf recitation is practiced for a longer with utmost faith and patience, mind is certainly transformed into its natural pious form. The goal which is targeted by recitation can also be achieved through meditation. Mind becomes thoughtless in meditation and thoughtless mind gradually cleans off lock, stock and barrel the internal whirling waves of instincts. Being clean and pure, mind becomes calm and cool. When mind is quiet,we can witness and visualize what our true form is ?