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CHAPTER 14. ACTION, INACTION AND NON-ACTION
Remembering the divine, or what we call self remembering goes even deeper than the unconscious.
It is not buried in the unconscious; it is beyond it. There is yet another part of the mind which is called
the collective unconscious.
Let us try to understand it in another way. As I said, the conscious is the superficial part of the mind
which is lighted, and below it lies the unconscious buried in the dark. Then below the unconscious
lies the collective unconscious, and at the bottom lies the cosmic unconscious – which is the mind
of the entire universe, which is the total mind, the universal mind. Remembrance of God or selfremembering
happens at the level of the cosmic mind, which is the ultimate in consciousness. God
or self is known when we become completely integrated – not only with our un conscious and
collective minds, but also with the cosmic consciousness, which is of the highest. To be in contact
with the cosmic mind is what we call the contact high.
I will explain it in yet another way. When you meditate here at the camp and go deep into meditation,
you first come in contact with your individual unconscious mind. Then some of you begin to scream
and cry and some others dance and whirl and sing. All these activities arise from your individual
unconscious. And by the end of the first stage of this meditation you cease to be individuals; you
all become a collectivity. Now you are not individual entities separate from each other, you are a
collective whole. This is the moment when you go deep in meditation and touch those levels of the
mind which are part of the collective mind. Then you don’t feel that you are dancing – it feels that
dance is going on and you are just a part of it. Then it does not seem that you are laughing; it seems
the cosmic laughter is happening and you are just a participant in it. Then you don’t feel that you are,
it feels that only existence is and everything in existence is dancing: stars are dancing, mountains
are dancing, birds are dancing, every particle under the sun is dancing. Then your dance becomes
a small but integral part of the universal dance. This experience is coming from your contact with
the collective unconscious.
Just below the collective unconscious lies the world of the cosmic unconscious. You arrive there
via the collective unconscious; and once you are connected with the cosmic unconscious your
awareness undergoes a complete mutation. Then you cease to feel that you are a part of the
whole, rather you know that you and the whole are one – you are not a part of the total but you
are totality itself. And then you suddenly remember who you are; this remembrance shoots up like
an arrow from the depths of the cosmic unconscious and fills your conscious mind. Then you also
know, and know simultaneously, that this awareness that you are the brahman, the ultimate, the
supreme is nothing new – it has always been with you, buried deep in your cosmic unconscious.
I divided the process of remembering into four parts just to make it easier for you to understand.
Krishna would never consent to this division, nor do I. In fact remembering, or consciousness, is
nowhere fragmented; it is an integrated whole. The conscious and the unconscious are extensions
of the same intelligence which is one and indivisible.
In our innermost depth we are aware that we are God, we are divine. We do not have to become
divine, we have only to discover our divinity. It is really a matter of recognition. The seer of the
Upanishad says in his prayer ”O Sun, please uncover the truth that is covered with gold.” It simply
means that truth is veiled and it has to be unveiled. Divinity is not to be achieved, but unveiled and
recognized. What is it that veils it?
It is our own forgetfulness, our unconsciousness which covers the truth.
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