Control of mind: Channels for sublimating mental energy – Love and devotion

Selfless service and meditation are both spontaneous when they are inspired by love.

Love is therefore rightly regarded as being the most important avenue […]

Control of mind: Channels for sublimating mental energy – Selfless service for humanity

While meditation on the personal and impersonal aspects of God requires withdrawal of consciousness into the sanctuary of one’s own heart, concentration on the […]

Control of mind: Channels for sublimating mental energy – Meditation

Meditation is deep and constant concentration upon an ideal object. In such concentration upon an ideal object, the person is conscious only of the […]

Control of mind: The process of sublimation

Spiritual progress is thus characterized by the dual aspect of renouncing the false values of sanskaras in favor of the true values of understanding.

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Creative control (Sublimation): Love

 

Selfless service and meditation are both spontaneous when they are inspired by love. Love is therefore rightly regarded as being the most important […]

Creative control (Sublimation): Selfless service

While meditation on the personal and impersonal aspects of God requires withdrawal of consciousness into the sanctuary of […]

Creative control (Sublimation): Β In Meditation no new sanskaras are formed and old ones are dispersed

 

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Meditation is deep and constant concentration upon an ideal object. In such concentration upon an ideal object, the person is […]

Creative control: Sublimation diverts the mental energy locked up in old sanskaras

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Spiritual progress is thus characterized by the dual aspect of renouncing the false values of […]

Creative control (sublimation): The process – Replacing lower values with higher is a process of readjustment

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The mind, becoming accustomed to certain habits of thought and response, does not find it easy to adjust itself to […]

Creative control (sublimation): The process – Replacing lower values with higher values

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However, if control is purely mechanical and aimless, it defeats its own purpose, which is to make possible the free and […]