Page 321 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

The mind has its own world of phantasy and play of ideations, projections due to desire and wishes .No wonder many psychologists undertake to demonstrate that the mind's sphere of activity within itself is just dream- making. But one may well wonder how it actually works, expect with the material that nature provide. If mind itself is nature, then why is it that the world of objects are not amendable to the mind as such? And why has the mind to secure a freedom from objects when it dreams and lives its own life-a life of self-imposed phantasy that might, when accentuated, lead to grave consequences in life?
Thus there is lot of confused thinking about the cosmic consciousness. It is said to be amoral, mystical and transcending the world, both perceptually and conceptually.
The cosmic consciousness in Sri Ramchandra's Raja Yoga is really cosmic in the sense that it is the awareness of the brahmanda - the universe. One feels that one is a member of that universe, and part and parcel there of. Instead of feeling that he is a particular individual with his own particular separate life to live, he finds himself to be a member of a universe. In this sense what happens is that his own physico-psychical body is infused with vibrations of force far exceeding its personal vibration with which it was endowed. The life that one lives is no longer circumscribed to the individual organism. He finds that a vaster world is open to him. Of course this is not in a sense identical with the experience of the world around us in the physical sense or geographical or planetary sense. Far from it .one feels drawn into a vaster experience -a freer world to live in. A sense of growing freedom is available
This may even be called the astral world-a subtle world of which our world and our bodies are manifestations or grosser forms. Things, which happen in this universe, are causally prior to the events in this perceived world. Men, who have visions of these events in the astral world are those who here, become soothsayers and prophets of the world here. This world seems to be determined by that world. Cosmic consciousness is the concrete experience of that cosmos, which is hidden to the perceptive consciousness, in the sense that it is the future of the present seen, rather than its past. But this is undoubtedly a gain from the worldly point of views, through it is not