The Power of the Subconscious Mind
Read the article "The power of the subconscious mind". What the religions say: Every religion says that ‘your faith will save you’, ‘Let your faith protect you’, ‘Ninte Viswasam nine Rakshikatte’ ‘Yadbhaavam thadhbhavathi’. As you think so you are. Within our subconscious mind lie the ultimate wisdom, power, and all that is necessary. If we recognize these possibilities of our deeper mind, we will realise all these.
The power of the subconscious mind
The Obstacles in the way of realizations:
Why are we finding it difficult to achieve what we want? It is because, we are not very sure of what we want, our mind energy is frittered away on previous unpleasant incidents/happenings or future happenings and over indulgence in sexual and other sensual related issues, negative emotions. In English there is a say to the effect that "Yesterday is a canceled cheque, tomorrow is a promissory note and today is the reality – live today'. It means that if we avoid brooding over the past and what is going to happen in future we can have a peaceful existence. Peaceful condition is the fertility condition of mind. To help us to achieve this condition, there are several avenues like the meditation, hypnotism, pranayama, yoga etc. To the extent we control these factors, our power increases proportionately and we can realise what we want to that extent. It is Possible. Let us see the examples:
Hanuman – There is a passage in Ramayana which deals with the Hanuman crossing the ocean to go to Lanka. Hanuman was a devotee of Srirama and always his mind dwells on Srirama only. The Vanara sena reached the south end at the shore of ocean.They discussed as to who can reach Lanka by crossing the ocean. They knew the strength of Hanuman and was knowing that if Hanuman was made aware of his powers, Hanuman can cross. They reminded Hanuman and he could go to Lanka meet Seetha give Rama's message. He met Ravana as Rama's ambassador and come back leaving his imprint.
Buddha (Siddhartha) – As per history he was born as a prince of Kapilavasthu. He was married and was leading the life of a normal person. But he was observing that people are not happy and are sad and suffering. He wanted to find out the reason and eradicate the cause. He discussed with the learned but could not get answer. Finally he left his home and went to Bodh Gaya and started meditating under a peepal tree to find out the cause of misery. The rest is history and present in front of us through his followers. He established the Buddhism as a major religion with a large followings today in India and other nearby countries.
Adi Sankara - Kerala's own great son – Born in AD 788 at Kaladi, Kerala. He lived only for 32 years. When he was 7 years his father died. His mother taught him of religious literature and later he went to study under a guru nearby. He wanted to learn more and wanted to be a Sanyasi. Under pressure his mother had to agree and he went to study under his great Guru Govindapada. When he was 16 years he was well versed with the Hindu philosophy. He traveled throughout the length and breadth of India (from Kashmir to Knyakumari and Guwahathi to Dwaraka) by foot twice during his short life covering all places of learning and engaging the scholars of the place in discussion,convincing them of his theory of 'Advaitham' and converting most of them. He visited innumerable ancient temples and revised the schedule of poojas there and established several new temples like the Badrinath, Mookambika and others at various places. Even in this age where jet facilities exist, we find it difficult to travel long distances. He established 4 Mutts at 4 end of the country to spread the advaitha Sidhantha and rejuvenate Hindu Philosophy. During this short period of life he had written several articles on Hindu Philosophy, translated several Sanskrit literatures. He brought together the disintegrated Hinduism to its glory. During his mother's illness he came to her during the travel and attended her till her end and was cremated her body with the rites.
Swamy Vivekananda - Narendranath Dutta was Born on January 12, 1863 in Kalkatha. He learned Hindu philosophy from his Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He became Swamy Vivekananda. He was the first Indian to spread the Hindu philosophy in America and Europe and got the status of 'major Religion' to Hinduism.
Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar a coastal town of Gujarat. He completed the law graduation and was a practicing advocate. While at South Africa he had to experience the apartheid and took up the fight there against the discrimination between man and man. Later he came to India and fought with the mightiest of the mighty British Empire with mass hunger strikes and non-cooperation movements and won the freedom of the country in 1947.
Jesus Christ – Born as a Jew in 7 –2 B C lived for about 38 years. During this short period he founded the Christian Religion even against the greatest odds and harassment. Now it is one of the major religions in the world.
Muhammad Nabi – Another great spiritual leader born during the year 570 A D in Arabia and lived for about 60 years. He founded the Islam religion and spread it to make it one of the major religions of the world.
We may be able to quote other smaller personalities. But the article has limitations and many of the other personalities may involve controversies.
The thing common to all of them was the determination to serve the humanity with single minded devotion above the selfish interests. How do we realise?
We can realise the goals by training ourselves to contact and release the power of subconscious mind, it is possible to bring power, wealth, health, success and happiness or whatever we like to achieve. The power is within us. We have to understand it and learn to use it. For that first we have to bring peace and tranquility of mind by the methods mentioned in the previous paragraph. Then we have to make the sub conscious mind to accept things which we want to realise.
For this we have to use the conscious mind. We should go on repeating in our conscious mind, the things which we want to achieve. Some of the most common desire is mentioned below. We go on repeating the relevant one/s in our mind and think about them constantly so that the sub conscious mind picks it up and help us to realise over a period of time.
For overall Improvement: Whenever we are not engaged in any activity, we should repeat to ourselves in mind that 'I am progressing, getting healthier, successful, confident and happier by every moment. We should keep a picture in the mind of a confident, successful, cheerful and healthy self.
For Wealth: Constantly think and visualize in mind as we like and enjoy money. Enjoy using it wisely, constructively in mind. Imagine of the money circulating through plentiful and continuously.
For self Improvement: Imagine that subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory and intelligence. It retains everything I read and heard from books and from others. Whenever I want to know about anything it automatically comes to my mind
For Peace: Feel that the body and mind are completely and totally relaxed, serene and calm. Feel that you are forgiving everybody who tries to disturb you and sincerely wish them harmony, health, peace and all the blessings of life.
For other things imagine appropriately.
Conclusions:
Mind is only one, but it possesses two separate characteristics. Each is having separate powers and attributes. The labels used to distinguish the two functions are: objective mind and subjective mind, conscious and subconscious mind, the wakeful and sleeping mind. The 2nd category or aspect is like the soil where if we fertilise and plant good seeds and water it appropriately, the plant comes out and grows beautifully. It is for us to utilize the facility implanted in us by the almighty.
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