Soumitra Basu
Doctor
Articles by Soumitra Basu (114)
Sri Aurobindo’s Prevision of a Greater Psychology
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2024
The Meeting of the Ways. Explorations in East/West Psychology
The Physical Mind
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2024
The physical mind is that part of the mind enmeshed in sensory schemata and is thus at the lowest end of the mind-range. It goes on ruminating habitual and trivial thoughts that are usually related to life’s ordinary preoccupations. Ordinarily, we are not always thinking of great intellectual stuff or creative things but dealing with everyday matter. We think whether we have locked the door properly or whether we have not forgotten to switch off the cooking gas cylinder connection or whether our daughter has returned from school safely. These are trivial, commonplace thoughts that go on revolving and ruminating at the lowest range of the mind — the physical mind. A great exaggeration of these ruminating stuff leads to the development of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Apropos Parapsychology
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2023
Consciousness-Based Psychology — Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Yoga, Health and Transpersonal Growth
Perfection — shifting nuances
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2022
MahasarasvatiMahalakshmiMahasarasvatiperfect perfection
Pain-Pleasure-Indifference
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2022
In the Indian tradition, Reality has been experientially perceived as a triune of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss or Sachchidānanda. Bliss or Ānanda is the value aspect of Reality but in its pure poise it is inaccessible to the ordinary human being. In fact, any premature attempt to access this aspect of Reality might be counter-productive unless one has the experience of identifying with the inmost essence of one’s consciousness — the ego-surpassing fourth-dimensional principle named by Sri Aurobindo as the psychic being.