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<p class="paracenter">THE CONSCIOUS BEING
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<p class="para"> The conscious being in us is 
truly the psychic being. But it is behind at present and out of the picture. 
What is normally conscious then is the mind, a part of it which has got the 
light is illumined. We are conscious through this portion, and even we identify 
ourselves with it, know and feel it as our self, as &quot;I&quot;.
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<p class="para"> The mind, however, has a central 
consciousness which may be called the Witness Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It 
stands apart and observes whatever is happening in the mind and in other parts 
as well; it is in fact the observer of the whole <i>adhar. </i>The other parts 
are the vital and the physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, 
its witness Purusha, which observes all the vital movements and also through its 
own angle the other parts. Likewise the physical has a Purusha and it too 
observes through its own consciousness. The mental Purusha says, &quot;I see I am 
thinking, reasoning etc.&quot;; the vital Purusha says, &quot;I see I am angry, violent or 
enjoying, energising etc.&quot;; the physical Purusha says, &quot;I see I am acting, 
walking, running etc.&quot; Now each of these three Purushas, in an ordinary person, 
stands separately, each is conscious
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<p class="para">in its own way; they are not clearly conscious of each other; 
they intermix, but not happily, they are more often than not at cross purposes. 
Very rarely are they unified and harmonised or bound together as a team for 
serving a common purpose, a single aim. That union and harmonisation can be done 
only through the supreme Purusha, the Divine Witness who is the true conscious 
Being, the one Purusha behind or above all the others, whose light first of all 
centralises in the psychic being and then through it is canalised into its 
delegates or emanations on the lower levels, the mind, the vital and the 
physical.
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<p class="para"> What is consciousness? It is the 
inverse of Inconscience. It is the creative essence of the universe: without 
consciousness there is no creation. Inconscience means non-existence. The 
supreme Non-manifest becomes conscious of itself, that is, objectifies itself, 
sees itself created or reflected in multiple centres: that is the origin of all 
creation. By consciousness all is, by unconsciousness nothing is. Consciousness 
is light, consciousness is life.
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<p class="para"> The original consciousness is one 
and indivisible and at its highest potential. But when it gets devolved and 
divided, i.e., individualised, it gets at the same time diffracted and minimised, 
like the reflections in a rough mirror. What we normally understand by 
consciousness is this diminished degree of it in the
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<p class="para">individual. But although diminished and diffracted in many forms 
and modes, the basic consciousness is still the divine consciousness which is 
there behind and at the origin of all the partial formulations. It is through 
this core of Divine Presence—which is nothing else than the psychic—that the 
individual maintains and develops its contact with the Divine, grows into the 
fullness of the divine consciousness even as an individual and earthly 
embodiment.
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