Bharatham : Uthishtatha-Jagratha : (wef-05/11/2012. )

 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Tuesday, June 21. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-4. Post-4. ======================================================================= Metaphysics of Thought and Its Functions : Continued ... The mind, in the Vedanta philosophy, is conceived not as any independent entity opposed to matter, as is the case in several systems of Western philosophy, but is understood to be an aspect of the material principle itself appearing in a more rarefied form. The psychology of the Vedanta is a highly scientific methodology evolved out of the fundamental concept that the supreme reality is Absolute Consciousness and anything that may seem to be opposed to it can only be a phase of itself. The fivefold base of objective perception, viz., sound, touch, form, taste and smell, is found to be inseparable from and reciprocally related to

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Sunday, June 05. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-3 Post-3. ============================================================== Life a Process and Activity : Not only the body and the senses but even the self conceived as a limited individual centre of consciousness is a process of intense activity, moving, changing and evolving incessantly. The individual self is the basis of knowledge as well as action. Due to confinement to a spatial existence the individual self is dominated over and harassed by certain urges, felt within itself, pointing to certain external objects and states. The desire for food, clothing and shelter, for name, fame, power, sleep, and sex, often appears in the human individual as a violent force which cannot be easily subdued or even intelligently controlled. These deep-rooted urges are an immediate consequence of