C o s m i c M i n d f r o m Y o g a M a g a z i n e

____________________________________________________________________ The mind of an individual is a part of the cosmic universal mind. You must understand that your individual mind is part of the universal mind. The space in this room is an individual space, but it is also a part of a greater space. Because you have four walls around it, you call it your room space. Similarly, the individual mind is a concept and not a reality. Actually there is only universal mind. Individual mind should not be brought into consideration at all. 'Your mind' is a concept and in evolution you have to blow it up. What happens when you break the walls, where is the individual space? It becomes part of the total space. So the whole crux of the matter is the individualisation of the mind which is actually a process of self-hypnotism. The universal mind is symbolised by a cosmic egg. The shell of this egg is composed of proto-matter. At one end of this egg is Space, at the other end, Time. Space is plus energy and Time is minus energy. Space is the positive pole and Time is the negative pole. The centre of the universal mind is bindu, a point. That is the nucleus of the universal mind and it contains a form which we call matter. When you sit for meditation and start concentrating on one point, Time and Space both proceed towards the centre. When they unite at the bindu point, a great explosion of energy forces takes place. This is what happens in the universal mind when you are practising meditation. Where is this universal mind? Universal mind is in you, in me and in everyone, because when the explosion takes place, the universal mind breaks into thousands of parts and millions of fragments. These fragments of universal mind are absolute in nature. When you divide the absolute into millions, it remains an absolute. The absoluteness of the absolute can never be altered. There is a beautiful quote in the Upanishads about it. They say that absolute is absolute and this manifestation is also absolute. From that unmanifest absolute, this manifest absolute has been derived. If absolute is divided into thousands and millions of fragments, what remains is absolute. The equation goes like this: Infinity plus infinity is infinity Infinity minus infinity is infinity Infinity multiplied or divided by infinity is infinity. Taking 'one' as the symbol of absolute, there can be nothing greater or lesser than 'one'. The shortest equation is thus one plus one equals one; one minus one is equal to one; one multiplied by one or divided by one is only one. That is the concept of the universal mind. The universal mind is divided into millions and trillions of fragments and each fragment is absolutely universal in nature and structure. Therefore, every particle in this universe is part

of the universal mind. When you practise meditation you are dealing with the universal mind, and when you are trying to concentrate on a point, you are bringing time and space into one polarity.
Fission and fusion

The whole universal mind is encircled by an energy aura. When time and space unite with each other, a great phenomena takes place as the point or nucleus of the universal mind undergoes an explosion. If ever you have studied physics and nuclear energy, you may be able to understand this better. Break the matter and the nucleus of the matter is energy. Break the mind and the nucleus of the mind is spiritual energy. During the whole process of meditation, the universal mind is undergoing the same process, the same transformation as matter during the process of fission and fusion. Matter and mind should be properly understood. For most people, matter is inert and mind is active. But matter is a state of mind and mind is a state of matter. You must clearly understand that matter and mind are two different states of one reality. The central core of the mind and the central core of the matter in each case is shakti, energy. That is why, in the process of dhyana, emphasis is placed on one-pointed concentration, on consistent and un-fluctuating awareness of one bindu, one symbol. The symbol on which you meditate is only a support. When you achieve meditation the symbol is destroyed. When you want to disintegrate the matter and derive nuclear energy from it, you take a particular form of matter. When you want to explode the mind, then you should give it a form. So some people meditate on a point or a star, and others have their own symbol. At a particular stage of meditation the symbol explodes and then the state of samadhi comes. So those of you who are interested in evolution have to give it more thought and make sure you understand the whole process fully.