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Meta Psychology of Sri Ramchandra's Rajayoga
The First movement or stir (ksobha) on the surface of the Tam is also called the First Mind (Manas) of God. It is also Nature. This First Mind, which is thrown up from the bosom of Tam, is a powerful jerk and following the analogy of Anar or Fire-flying on all sides, throws up infinite sparks each of which appears to the Vision as an eternal entity continuously shooting out. This has been described as Visphulinga in the Upanisads. Bergson also uses this example to explain the process of creative evolution. These sparks behave as rays (amsas) as well as atoms (anus). Each of these forms a world that is supporting systems of other atoms and amsas. The more peripheral appear to condense and become gross, solid and heavy, whereas the less peripheral are subtler and lighter. The central force however continues to be supporting all these infinite rays and is exceedingly subtle, though tremendous in its energy which is Consciousness of the superfinest order.
In one sense All process is of this First Mind (manas). As it manifests, its spiritual subtle condition is the inner layer and its gross or material condition is the outer. The inner is the psychic, and the outer the material physical form. There is both parallelity and interaction between the two. Normally parallel, at points of twist or crisis or change there is interaction that brings about the change in both. There also happens in deeper crisis the complete volte face, the psychic becomes awakened and the physical gets subordinated. This condition is the process known as conversion. The individual reveals nearness to the centre, and there is similarity with the Ultimate or identity in some measure. The First Mind thus provides the manifestation of the potential grossness in all subtle being, even as it reveals the subtle, underlying or hidden by the gross. This principle is a general or universal principle - the Mind is the cause of bondage as well as of freedom. The Samkhya darsana stated this in the form that Nature is the cause of man's bondage as well as of his freedom.
The uniformity of the processes of Nature reveals also that what is true of the atom or amsa is equally true of the vast and the whole - as is the minutest so is the largest. The finite repeats the Infinite. The microcosm is