The 3 Types of MIND

Riding The Dragon

In this lesson we will learn: The most amazing revelation about your Mind you have been made to think that everyone has only one type of Mind wait till you discover 2 more types of Mind and how to unleash their potential How the first type of Mind traps you in false and incomplete reality and what type of Mind can free you to experience the TRUTH What is the difference between Belief and Faith and how this simple knowledge of the 3 types of Minds can help you overcome dead beliefs and develop conscious faith The shocking truth about how the modern education system destroys our real potential which is why Einstein and many more successful wise men never were academic heroes of their schools How the subjective reasoning destroys your Intuition and makes your servant(the mind), your master. A simple practice for opening your Intuition And MORE!

Now, we know that we have not 1 but 3 Brains. The brains are the instruments of the Mind. The infinite forms of the mind, control the main centers of the 3 brains, and play with the human machine. The mind itself is an instrument of the Consciousness. And we should learn how to manage it. But it is absurd to assume that such an instrument could become efficient without even knowing the how and the why of its functions. So let us learn about the different types of Mind that we have. In fact we have three minds:

The first one we can and must call the Sensual Mind. The second is the Intermediate Mind. The third we shall call the Inner Mind.

Now we are going to study each of these three minds separately and judiciously:

The Sensual Mind or the Sensorial Mind or the External Mind

The Sensual Mind is that mind which we utilize commonly, it is the External Mind. A mind completely identified with the 5 senses. The Sensual Mind elaborates its concepts with the data brought by the five senses. And with these concepts it forms its reasoning. Because of this, the Sensual Mind is terribly crude and materialistic. It cannot accept anything which has not been physically demonstrated. Since the fundamental concepts of the Sensual Mind are based on external sensory data, undoubtedly, it can know nothing about that which is real, about the truth, about the mysteries of life and death, about the Soul and the Spirit, etc. As, where could it get that information, if the only source of nourishment it has, is the data brought by the senses? Obviously, it cannot know what comes from above. For the rogues of the intellect, totally trapped by their external senses and incarcerated within the basic concepts of the Sensual Mind, our Esoteric studies about the Mind, Meditation and Self Mastery are lunacy. In an insane world, they are right due to their conditioning by the external sensory world. How could the Sensual Mind accept what is not sensory? Thus, all the materialist and atheist doctrines are developed by the Sensual Mind. The humanity in the present times uses its Sensorial Mind to escape from itself. By watching T.V, movies, by gossiping, by keeping ourselves busy in day-to-day mundane activities, we try to escape from ourselves. The truth is, we are afraid of loneliness. The moment we are alone with ourselves, we get terrified and immediately run to the Sensorial Mind, so that it can help us escape from ourselves. Is that not so? Lets take a look at different types of Sensual Minds. Now, even the Sensual or Sensorial Mind is of 3 types :

(a) The Weather-Cock Mind or the Dispersed Mind:

This mind as the name suggests has no center of gravity. Its unstable, confused. This Mind has no constancy, cannot achieve any goal. It cannot concentrate on one thing for long. It is like a monkey which keeps on jumping from one thing to another, moving like a pendulum.Cannot take a decision. If a friend joins one course, we want to do it. Then we see some other friend doing some other course which he says is absolutely wonderful. And we take no time in leaving the earlier course to join this new course. E.g. The Mind of the character Hrithik Roshan played in the Indian movie Lakshya, till he learns to tame his Weather-Cock Mind.

If we are more based in this Mind, sometimes even to take simple decisions like what to eat in lunch, or which movie to watch, or what dress to wear becomes a big problem. In this process, much time and energy is wasted by the Weather-Cock Mind.

(b) The Programmed Mind:

We are programmed to live in a definite way. This Mind programs the future and when things do not happen as programmed, it makes us suffer terribly. It makes us think we can control the future, expecting something to happen. Life runs like a sergeant drill. Leaving no scope for the unexpected. And when something unexpected happens, we cannot cope with it. e.g. an earthquake or something happens to our house, car, job, business, etc., we are shaken. This mind leaves no scope for Intuition. Now, we are not saying that we should not plan. Planning is all right, but we should always be ready to adapt. If our society is projecting an image that to be successful you must be blonde, of a certain height, with a certain breast size. Or you should get A+, or pass this or that exam. And if we do not qualify any of these false benchmarks, we feel humiliated, we feel worthless... And many people commit suicide for these reasons. What a tragic situation! How many countless millions live day after day hypnotized by the programming of our culture, and die in loneliness, feeling ashamed, dissatisfied, lonely, or resentful... And yet, who sees the truth of it? The Programmed Mind has made us so calculative, cold and indifferent.

(b) The Infra-conscious Mind:

Infra-conscious mind is clearly from where all the negative motives arise, a mind which has awaken for the evil. Infra-conscious influences come from the very depths of the mind. We do not even perceive it. One way we can perceive this Mind is when we have nightmares. Nightmares are the realities of our own infra-conscious mind. When we have nightmares about monsters or demons or being in a very negative place, or being chased or raped... all of that is our own infra-consciousness. Those are aspects of our own Infraconscious mind. And then, this Mind makes us harm others, consciously hate people or become vengeful. We do all kind of negative karmas under the influence of this Mind. For example, terrorists, many of the modern politicians, a glaring example would be Hitler, marketing people using unethical influence tactics, those people who use Mind Control to control others, all of them are puppets of this Mind. But definitely most of the people governed by this Mind are too smart to show their negativity to the outside world.

The Intermediate Mind

If information from the senses serves as a secret means for all functions of the Sensual Mind, the data brought by religions have their place in the Intermediate Mind. The Intermediate Mind is different from the Sensual Mind. It has no direct knowledge of what is real either, it confines itself to beliefs and that is all. Found in the Intermediate Mind are religious beliefs, unbreakable dogmas, etc. It is related with blind dead faith or beliefs. Just follows what has been told, but does not intelligently evaluates. For example, ringing the bell in temples or churches, pouring milk over Shivling, or making a cross. It does all of this, because the parents or the priests told us to do it in this way. Even internally feels, everything will be fine one day, God will save us; when the reality is totally the opposite. They are those that go to their temples, schools, religions and sects, etc. so everybody can see them. They listen to the teachings, read their Bible, Gita or Koran but do not practice any of that teachings in themselves. They just attend to their rituals so everyone can see them, to make a good self image, but they never work on themselves, and that is really serious. They are happy with mere beliefs and do not feel interes for the inner transformation, so they lose their time miserably and fail! Moreover, the Sensual Mind and the Intermediate Mind are all the time comparing, always influenced by competition. Men compare one girlfriend with another. The ladies compare one man to another. The follower of one religion or sect compares his religion or sect with other to feel superior. The teacher compares a student with another, as if not all the students deserve the same esteem. In reality any comparison is awful. Whoever contemplates a beautiful sunset and compares it with another one, he really does not know how to comprehend the beauty he has before his eyes. Whoever observes a beautiful mountain and compares it with another one he saw yesterday, he is not really comprehending the beauty of the mountain he has before his eyes. When there is comparison, true Love doesnt exists. Parents who truly love their children, never should compare them with anybody else, they love them and that is it. A husband who really loves his wife, never should make the mistake of comparing her with anybody else, he loves her and that is it. A worshipper of God who truly loves God would never compare his religion with another one, or downcast other religions. You love your God, other people love their God and that is it.

The Sensual and Intermediate Minds divided by comparisons, the mind slave of dualism, destroys Love. The mind divided by the battling of opposites is not able to comprehend the new, it petrifies, it freezes. The mind has many profundities, regions, subconscious grounds, roundabout ways, but the best thing it has is the ESSENCE, the CONSCIOUSNESS, and it is in the center. When dualism is gone, when the mind turns integral, serene, quiet, profound, when it doesnt compare anymore, then the ESSENCE, the Consciousness awakens. Lets distinguish between what is objective and subjective; in whatever is objective there is awakened Consciousness. In what is Subjective there is sleeping Consciousness or sub Consciousness. Only the awakened Consciousness may enjoy the objective knowledge which is the domain of the Inner Mind.

The Inner Mind

So, there exists the Inner Mind. The Inner Mind by itself and in itself works exclusively with the data brought by the 2 Superior Centers The Superior Emotional Center and the Superior Intellectual Center. These 2 Centers are directly connected with Awakened Consciousness. The Inner Mind is fundamental for the direct experience of the truth. To manifest itself however, Consciousness needs a mediator, an instrument of action, and this in itself is the Inner Mind. To open the Inner Mind would be the appropriate thing to do in order to remove ourselves from the world of doubt and Ignorance. This means that only by opening the Inner Mind will genuine Faith be born within us. Faith is the direct perception of what is real, it is fundamental wisdom; it is the experience of that which is beyond the body, the senses, the affections and the mind. We must distinguish between faith and belief. Beliefs are found stored in the Intermediate Mind. Faith is a characteristic of the Inner Mind. Unfortunately, there is always a general tendency to confuse belief with faith. Although it seems paradoxical, we emphasize the following: Those who have true faith do not need to believe. Authentic faith is living wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries, faith has been confused with belief, and now it takes a lot of work to

help people comprehend that faith is true wisdom and never vain beliefs. The sapient function of the Inner Mind has as its Intimate resource all that formidable data from the wisdom embodied in Consciousness. One who has opened the Inner Mind recalls ones previous existences, knows the mysteries of life and death; not because of what one has or has not read, not because of what someone has or has not said, not because of what one has or has not believed, but because of terribly real and vivid direct experience.

Of course, the Sensual Mind does not like what we are saying here.
The Sensual Mind cannot accept this because it is out of its grasp, has nothing whatever to do with external sensory perceptions. This is alien to its own basic concepts, to that which was taught at school or what was learned from various books, etc. What we are saying here is not accepted by the Intermediate Mind either, as it is contrary to its own beliefs. This spoils what its religious teachers made it learn by heart. But the question is how to open our Inner Mind. How can we open it? When one Self Observes and Psychoanalyzes intimately the mechanism of ones mind, when one knows the how and why of the multiple thoughts, and knows where they come from, one maythen change his way of thinking, converting the mind in a useful instrument. In this way, by knowing how to think psychologically, one can open the Inner Mind.Unquestionably, when someone starts to observe himself, it is a sign that he is beginning to think psychologically. Beyond the intellect there exists another faculty of cognition, the Imagination. Because of this faculty, the computer, the Ipod, the mobile phone, the car, etc., exist. The great scientist Albert Einstein said, Imagination is more important than knowledge. The wise man that wants to create an invention first has to imagine it and then project that image onto paper. The architect that wants to build a house has to imagine it first and later project it into a plan. Therefore, the imagination is what allows the creation of an invention. But, there are two kinds of imagination? We could call the first one "Mechanical Imagination", and this kind of imagination is fantasy itself, which is formed by the scraps of the memory and it is even prejudicial. However, in truth there exists another type of imagination: it is the Intentional Imagination, that is to say, Conscious Imagination.

For example, Einstein imagined what would happen if he is sitting on a ray traveling at the speed of light and he received the answer. Einstein had a question that what would happen if we go beyond the speed of light. So he could have thought, thought, thought and thought......but no he didn't do that. He just sat or might have lied down and he closed his eyes and he let his imagination loose that he is sitting on a ray that is traveling at a speed of light and then inspiration came and then intuition came and thus, he got the right answer. Nature itself possesses imagination, and that is obvious. If there were no imagination, all the creatures of nature would be blind. The creative imagination of nature has originated the many existing forms. It is possible to develop the imagination, and this can take us far beyond the Sensual Mind. This can lead us to Psychological Thought. Only Psychological Thought can open the doors of the Inner Mind. If one develops the imagination, one can learn to think psychologically. Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition are the three mandatory paths of Initiation, but if we remain bottled up within the sensory functions of the intellect, it is impossible to ascend the staircase of the Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition. Only when fantasy stops, the gates of Intuition opens. How are we going to define Intuition? It is a direct perception of the truth without the depressing process of options. We are very imaginative. We use our imagination constantly, yet we use our imagination through delusion most of the time. We fantasize ad nauseam. We worry about our son or our daughter, and we imagine terrible things happening to them - "Oh what if they get in a car accident; what if somebody takes advantage of them; or if they are out of money and they are homeless or sick..." We produce a lot of imagery in those worries; and that is fantasy --unconscious imagination. There is no consciousness there - there is only delusion anxiety, worry, fear, attachment. We worry about our spouse: "What if he leaves me; what if he does not really love me; what if he is cheating on me; what if he gets sick and dies; what if she leaves me; what if she hurts me..." And then what to say about the sexual fantasies of young men and women, it is really a play of the Sensual Mind. All of these are related to images, and all of these images are negative imagination. In fact, they are actual entities that we create. We have to understand that all forms of energy have some material existence. A thought is a form of energy. Einstein proved energy is matter, and matter is energy, E=MC2. Thus, thought itself is also matter, but it is matter in the Fifth dimension, the Mental

Plane, the World of the Mind. Every thought that we produce is related to an actual formation of matter; it has form and it exists in the World of the Mind. So knowing this, lets stop fantasizing and start developing conscious Imagination.Only then real Intuition will develop. Only then we can open our Inner Mind. Moreover, the Inner Mind guides us but we ignore it and get identified with the external or intermediate mind.

How the present education system destroys the possibilities of the Inner Mind
A child is born, and as a fact he receives a physical body as a complementary gift from Divinity and his parents. Of course, this physical body is marvelous. It has about 15,000 million neurons that are in the service of the child, and it cost him nothing, nada, zilch. As the child grows, he starts collecting data around his environment through the 5 senses, which is then processed by what we call the Sensual Mind. While the child is growing his Sensual Mind opens little by little. This sensual mind in itself and by itself gives the child information through external sensorial perceptions. And then the sensual mind elaborates on this information which is based on the data it collects from the 5 senses. Because our senses have serious limitations, the sensual mind can never know anything about reality. Its Reasoning processes are subjective, they move within a vicious circle, the circle of external sensorial perceptions. The truth is that the senses of external perception can only reach a fraction of what is perceivable. Now a complete differentiation between subjective reasoning and objective reasoning must be done. It is obvious that the child has to go through all the educational processes; kindergarten, elementary, high school, and university. The subjective reasoning is nourished with all the data that these distinct scholastic institutions grant unto it. But truly no educational institute can give to a child, youth, or teenager data or information that is already not there. That is why the greatest scientists and inventors of this world never got A grades in school. The greatest scientist of the last century Albert Einstein is one example. No university can give information about that which is not of time, about the reality of our existence, about the secrets of this Universe, about that which is reality. The speculations of subjective reasoning(of the sensual mind) can maximum take one to intellectualism, or, towards simple opinions of a subjective type. But never to the experience of the truth, never to experience that which is not from time. On the other hand, objective reasoning, that disgracefully does not receive any instruction because there is no school that teaches it, remains abandoned. Undoubtedly, objective

reasoning processes obviously conduct us towards exact and perfect postulates(in simple words The Truth). The child is always subjectively educated from place to place; for him no form of superior instruction exists. All data, all scholastic matters, all family matters, etc. that the senses grant to the subjective mind of the teenager are merely empirical and subjective and this is pitiful. Towards the beginning, the child has still not lost the capacity of astonishment.Obviously the child looks in wonder on any phenomena. A beautiful toy awakens in him this astonishment, and with this toy the child plays. This capacity of wonder disappears as the child grows, as his sensual mind receives data from school and college. And till the time the child becomes a youth, the young boy has already completely lost this capacity of astonishment. Unfortunately, the data that one receives in colleges, schools and educational centers only serve to nourish the sensual mind, and nothing else. In this way, actually with these educational systems, from schools, academies, and universities the only thing that we can really achieve there is to make for ourselves an artificial Personality. To give an account of this, in reality, the knowledge that is studied in schools and universities will never serve to form the Equilibrated Human Being, the fourth type of person. Therefore, this type of knowledge serve only to: 1. 2. 3. 4. Falsify the knowledge of the Five Centers of the human machine. To take the capacity of astonishment away from us. To develop the sensual mind. To form a false personality within us.

Therefore, it should be clearly understood that the sensual mind cannot produce any radical transformation in any way within ourselves.

Nonetheless, there is a struggle within us because, the sensual mind is the clear enemy of the Inner mind.
The sensual mind is identified with any circumstance, for example, if suddenly we find ourselves at a sumptuous banquet and we identify ourselves a great deal with the food we will convert ourselves into gluttons or if we get identified with the wine, we end up drunk. If we see a person of the opposite sex in front of us who is fascinating and interesting, we will become very identified with that person and end up fornicating or simply, we are changed into adulterers. To create the Equilibrated Man in these circumstances, in this way, is not possible. If in some way we have to start the work of creating the Equilibrated Man, this will come from real, true work on ourselves, without ever getting identified with any circumstance, while observing ourselves from instant to instant, from moment to moment.

When we expound the limitations of the sensual mind, we fully recognize the usefulness of the sensual mind and that we need to live in perfect Equilibrium whilst knowing how to drive the Inner mind and knowing how to drive the sensual mind. Because if one does not know how to drive the sensual mind then one forgets that there is a need to pay the rent, one forgets that their exists a need to eat in order to exist, one forgets their is a need to get dressed and not wander on the streets completely negligent, not accomplishing his duties in life. Therefore, the sensual mind is necessary, but there is a need to know how to intelligently drive it with equilibrium, meaning: the Inner mind and the sensual mind must be equilibrated in life. Some people only preoccupy themselves with the inner mind. For example, certain hermits that live in the caverns of the Himalayas forget that they have a sensual mind. To simply disregard this mind just like that is absurd. There is a need for the sensual mind to function in a equilibrated form in order for one to accomplish his duties of life. The struggle between the Inner mind and the sensual mind is frightful. Let us remember the Christ when he was fasting in the wilderness. A demon was presented in front of him and told him All of the kingdoms of the world will be granted unto thee, if thou kneel and worship before me. In other words it is the sensual mind tempting him, and the superior mind answers him saying, Satan, Satan, it is written you must obey and worship the Lord your God. Jesus never let the sensual mind dominate him, but it does not mean that the sensual mind is useless. Its just that there is a need to have it under control. It must march in perfect equilibrium with the superior mind. Reasoning is one thing and intuition is another. Reasoning only nourishes itself with external sensorial perceptions (by means of the senses it perceives or receives impressions and then produces sensations). Thus, reasoning ends up being negative and limited. The reasoning person believes that he can attain the truth through the struggle of antithesis, but this struggle only divides the mind and incapacitates its ability to comprehend the truth. The intuitive person knows how to listen only to the voice of the silence. Thus, within his serene mind, the eternal truths of life are reflected with splendid beauty. The mind is of a feminine nature, which is made to be RECEPTIVE, to be useful as a PASSIVE INSTRUMENT rather than an ACTIVE INSTRUMENT. Nonetheless, the painful struggle of reasoning, the useless struggles among the yes and no, between the pleasant and unpleasant, between the acceptance and rejection, between belief and skepticism, between spiritualism and materialism, etc.,. All of these adulterate the normal functioning of the mind, they put the mind to work as an ACTIVE MASCULINE INSTRUMENT, and subtracts the pliability from it. And hinders it from opening itself for the new, from receiving the voice of the silence. The reasoning person converts his mind into a battlefield filled with prejudices, fears, anxieties, fanaticism, and theories. Yet, such a turbulent lake can never reflect the Sun of truth.

The mind of the intuitive one passively, serenely and silently flows in the service of Consciousness or Essence. The Sensorial Mind only works with the stimulus received from the 5 senses and reacts in an impulsive way without any guidance from above. So, the result is mistakes, pain, disease, stress, anxieties, worries and problems. Whereas, the Mind of the intuitive one is a marvelous vehicle of the Innermost. The mind of such an intuitive one only acts under the direction of the Innermost. Hence, from this action emerges right effort, right thinking, and right feeling. What we call the Intuitive action.

The human being who only moves himself under the direction of his Innermost in the world is a happy human being because he is far away from many types of complications and conflicts. But for that we have to make the Mind receptive and in this way develop the Intuition, so that the Mind becomes a useful passive instrument in the service of the Innermost(Soul).

Practical Exercise:
The mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" which esoterically is pronounced as "Om Masi Padme Yom" develops intuition when it is daily vocalized for ten minutes. This is the mantra of intuition. This mantra is vocalized as follows: Ooooommmm Mmmmaaaa Ssssssssiiiiiiiii Paaaadmmmeeeee Yoooommmmmm. You have to prolong the vowels. mmm sound as in hmmmm. Please sit comfortably, close your eyes, relax and vocalize the mantra with the video below (If initially, it's difficult for you to vocalize the mantra along with the video, just close your eyes and listen to this video, it will help you awaken your Inner Mind ):