The Subconscient

(Mother told a sadhak that his hatred of someone was due to a strong attraction for the person. When asked to explain, she wrote:)

I was referring to some evidently subconscient movement − but you need not worry about it nor fix your attention upon it − one day the understanding will come spontaneously.

These are the explanations, the excuses the mind always finds in such cases; but these mental explanations follow or at the most accompany the movements to be explained, they never precede them.

What starts the movement is an obscure impulse, instinctive, almost mechanical and unconscious in its origin, something that contradicts without knowing why. (It is this unconsciousness which repels X although it is not a legitimation for repulsion or shrinking − these being themselves movements of unconsciousness.)

April 1932

Has the subconscient accepted the Higher Consciousness?

If the subconscient were to accept the Consciousness, it would no longer be the subconscient, it would become consciousness. I think that you mean: has the subconscient submitted to the rule, to the law of the higher Consciousness? This is not done as a whole, for the subconscient is vast and complex; there is a mental subconscient, a vital subconscient, a physical subconscient, a bodily subconscient.

We have to wrest the subconscient fragment by fragment from its ignorant and inert resistance.

Subconscient remembrance must be purified of all that is useless.

Power of the truth in the subconscient: it can act only when sincerity is perfect.

As your aspiration is sincere, whatever was in the subconscient standing in the way of the Divine Realisation has come to the surface in order to be transformed; and you must rejoice at these occasions to make a progress.