HARE KRISHNA ALL,
i m doing krishna consciousness . i m doing 24 rounds of hare krishna mantra daily and folowing 4 regulative principals
how mind and intellIigence interact together ?
how mind and consciousness are different and how they interact.?
whts subconscious mind and subconsciousness. ?( how many types ) ( pls tell with an example )
is our real consciousness a soul ?? ( as srilaprabhupada used to say we are not this body but a soul ).rest all is ilusion of mind ??? ( i read somewhere that we have an inward looking mind and outward looking mind ).
from where does consciousness come from ? mind or soul?? if consciouness is symptom of soul then whats concept of mind here pls?
what is spirit. is it also in our body? how it different from soul ?
finally where does soul resides in our body ???
PLEASE ADVANCE DEVOTEES REPLY.THANKS
HARE KRISHNA
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Hare Krishna..
Here is the order.
There are the sense objects(eyes, nose,ear,tongue etc) and above sense objects are the senses which control them.Above senses, it is the mind which controls the senses. And above mind, it is the intelligence which directs the mind.
Consiousness is part of your intelligence. If you have good consiousness(like GOD consiousness), you will have good intelligence and since the intelligence controls the mind, it will always act according to what GOD had said. If you have bad consciousness, obviously your mind will be controlled by that bad consciousness and you will do bad deeds.
Coming to the soul and spirit, these are not two things. Within every being, there is ONE Spirit Soul which is called the Atma and there is ONE Super soul which is called Paramatma. Both these reside in the heart, side by side. When your spirit soul(which represents you) turns towards the Supersoul(part of Supreme God), then you will act in GOD consciousness. It is told in our scriptures that the size of our spirit soul is one ten-thousandth of the tip of a single strand of our hair. So it is literally invisible, inconceivable and nothing can harm it. It doesnt have death and is eternal. That is the energy which is driving our bodies. And the source of that energy is our Lord Krishna. And once that spirit soul leaves the material body, it transmigrates into another material body as per the Karmas which it did in its previous life. If we remember the supreme Lord at the time of death, then we would reach the Supreme Lord and never come back into the material existence. This is called liberation from the cycle of life and death.
Hope this answers your questions.
The function of an intelligence is memory, discrimination, analyze, decisions...
The function of a mind is to think, to accept and reject...
One who lives on mental platform says: "I will do things which I like to do".
But the platform of an intelligence is: "I will do things as per authorities, I will live according to higher authority not as like I want and do not want."
In our present situation we cannot realize ourselves - souls as souls. So what to speak of Krishna - Supreme Soul.
So He comes to this world in His Deity form. So that we can see Him with our material eyes, touch Him, feed Him, dress Him...
So Deity is Krishna. Deity is completely spiritual.
So by simple cooking, offering bhoga to the Deity, by making dresses to the Deity, by cleaning His Altar...we are acting on the platform of a soul - spirit. It is a spiritual activity not material.
So it is very simple. And also when we chant the Holy Names we will feel happiness, bliss within our heart - in the area of our chest - it is a place where Lord sits and we sit near to Him.
So if by chanting we please Krishna in our heart automatically we will feel that taste of bliss, happiness.
Bliss like honey, sweet - Holy Names are so sweet.
Also Srimad Bhagavatam is amal Puranam.
When we read it very attentively we will get realizations - real realizations of our spiritual body,Krishna...
Because reading Srimad Bhagavatam, that knowledge purifies our heart where the soul is then we will see Krishna.
Your servant,
hare krishna mata ji,
thanks for kind reply.whts difference between mind and consciousness then?
and what about spirit please? is it diffrent from matter? or made of matter or just our body is spirit or jiva atma. n soul is inside our body???? pls clarify, when we leave this body ( at death ) what happens to both? pls reply.
urs servant,
bhakat of krishna
In the reality i also do not know exact difference of mind and consciousness.
In the reality in spiritual world also we will have mind - ability to think...
Consciousness is the state where we are conscious of our existence.
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When with our mind we think of Krishna then it is spiritual mind.
Soul is in the heart and its function is that we are conscious of our existence. It is like a Sun planet:
Sun planet itself - as like our soul
Sun's rays- as like consciousness coming out from the soul
Your servant,