Every human being has a mind, and through this mind we operate, work and understand. Tantra has somehow realized that this mind can be developed. This mind, the powers, the capacities of this mind can be amplified. You can think through the mind, you can imagine, remember things, you can permute and combine. There seems to be a certain limit of the capacities of the mind which we utilize in our day-to-day life. The science of tantra visualized the mind to be more capable than you think. Here comes the concept of weak mind, strong mind and super mind.
The weak mind is a mind which cannot handle thoughts, emotions and situations. The weak mind cannot handle either happiness or unhappiness. The weak mind can be compared to a weak body. A weak person cannot work, carry a load or exert. The behaviour of the weak mind is the same. The weak mind is a manifestation of animal awareness. It has not got the capacity to see itself. This mind sees the external object, but does not see itself. In order to have a greater vision of life, it is necessary that the weakness of mind, the infirmity of the mind should be taken care of.
Tantra says that you must try to expand your mind. Now we come to one important point called expansion of mind and I have been talking about it well over thirty years. As a result of this, many people in the world have tried to understand the behaviours of the mind which cannot be logically understood.
First of all, you have to understand that you do not know the mind. You do not see your mind at all, what to talk about knowing it. Sometimes you are happy and unhappy, that is not the mind. Sometimes you love, sometimes you hate. That is not the mind. You see the light, it is not electricity, it is a manifestation, an account of electricity. A thought is not mind, emotion is not mind, memory is not mind. They are patterns or modifications of the mind. It is very hard for any average person to have a vision of the mind. It is said by a great thinker, Aldous Huxley, ‘Mind is like an iceberg, a little bit you can see of the top, and the rest of it is underneath.’
The homogeneity of the mind is beyond man’s vision, and once you have the vision of the mind you know it is a fantastic vision. It is a powerful experience. After that you are no more a homo sapiens, you may still have two legs, but you are not a human being, you are something more than that.
This mind is an element which has to be extracted, developed and used. Yoga has said very clearly that mind is seen by us through its modifications. In meditation you block those modifications. When you close your eyes you begin to remember things, you recapitulate, you see things. Stop them. You are not stopping the mind; you are only blocking the modifications. When you stop the process of mental modifications, you can see the mind.
The expansion of mind is a very important topic in tantra. After the expansion of mind, the mind is no longer a mind, it is a super mind. When the mind attains expansion, some sort of energy is released. These two events take place simultaneously – expansion of mind and liberation of energy.
This liberation of energy is a fantastic concept. It is nothing psychic, abstract or philosophical. This energy is inherent in matter. It is not an abstract thing. This matter is based at the root of the spine where there is matter. It is like an ordinary gland, just as you have in many parts of the body. When expansion of mind takes place, awakening takes place. When awakening takes place in matter which is situated at the base of the spine, that awakened energy moves towards the higher centre through the central canal in the spinal column. This energy ultimately invigorates, energizes and revitalises the brain centres.
All the minds are circuits, but energy is one. By different lights you do not say that energy is different. Mind is just one called universal mind. There is one homogeneity, one totality and unity of minds of which you are a part and I am another part. My mind and your mind are not two minds. Why don’t you connect your mind with me? But how to do it?
It is a wireless connection. There is no cable. It is not necessary, because we are part of one. This universal mind has two poles, called time and space. Time, space and object are categories of the universal mind. In physics we say time, space and object are the categories of the mind, but they are two opposite poles: time and space, positive and negative, plus and minus. So bring them together. In meditation and samadhi, time and space come closer and there is a moment when they join each other. At that time, there is an explosion, known as the awakening of kundalini.
April 1982, Casablanca, Morocco