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bring out the higher reaches of the Mind. The higher reaches of the mind go beyond the three levels or steps of Visnu so to speak. The Mind cannot go to it, not just the individual or personal mind but even the higher mind. That is the Reality behind, or beneath, the mind of which the mind may be the first expression, but it is a superconscious mind.
Obviously the higher we go, or the deeper we fathom the psychic being, we arrive at that condition when the nature of the consciousness itself changes - that is to say, consciousness is transcended and one is one with existence. Since existence brings out consciousness, consciousness is inherent within it, and that is the reason for the former being spoken of as existence- consciousness. In a sense it is that condition when the function of consciousness, which is to reveal the object to its subject, is transcended, and one experience being by being; what this means in words is inexpressible. In any case we are caught up in language terminologies of our ordinary ways of knowing. The knowing by the heart is also transcended. The subtle experiences which are also flowing through the gross physical become experienced, and one becomes more aware of the superconsciousness all round, peaceful, leading, bright and luminous, and free from heaviness and obstruction from the external.
Once we reach the Mind-lake or Cit-lake we are in a different consciousness.
The heart region alone gives the cues about the psycho-physiological basis of human existence. Buddha's statement that the psycho-physiological aggregate (skandhas) is the human body, and that it is automatically governed by its own inner impetus of desire, is well known. This he held, however, to be adharma, not the right movement, because it is individual and binding and promoting only ignorance and activity of the chain of causation (dependent causation). The five skandhas are well known also. They can be described in terms of the basic elements of earth, water, fire or heat, air and ether or, physiologically, by bones, blood, nervous-impulses, air or breath and waves and vibrations. In any case they are dependent on desire or the will to live; by any means and by all means.
The purification of the heart region undoubtedly would involve the minimum regulations about conduct or dharma. The devotion to the five