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And of course it happens! <ref>The Mother. cwm/09/27-august-1958</ref>
<div style=References"color:#000000;">Imagination</div> =What is Imagination? = <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Imagination is the capacity to project oneself outside realized things and towards things realizable.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span> <div style="color:#000000;">The Imagination is really the power of mental formation. When this power is put at the service of divine, it is not only formative but also creative.</div> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Our surface imagination is a selection from a vaster more creative and effective subliminal image-building power of consciousness..</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a substitute for a truer consciousness faculty of intuition of possibility.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination is one of the ways of capturing the unknown possibilities of the infinite.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span> = Imagination Represents Possibilities = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind constructs figures which are not true to the outer experience. They are the appearance of it. Our mind is an observer of actualities and recipient of truths not yet known or actualized, a dealer of possibilities that mediate between the truth and actuality. It doesn’t have the capacity to know everything of an infinite consciousness; </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Mind has limited knowledge and it has to supplement its restricted knowledge by imagination and discovery.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. It does not, like the infinite Consciousness, manifest the known, it has to discover the unknown. </span> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">All imagination represents some form of possibilities.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perhaps a very different form of actuality. Most of them are unrealized because they do not enter the scheme of present reality or do not come within the permitted potential of the individual or do not accord with collective principle or are alien to the nature of the current world.</span> = Nature of Imagination = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">I</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">magination which persist in the human mind, end often by self-fulfillment; individual thought formation can actualize themselves. If there is sufficient strength in the formation or in the mind that forms, it. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Imagination can create its own potentiality. In fact all imagination represents possibilities.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All human imaginations indeed correspond to some reality or real possibilities, though they may be quite inaccurate representation and therefore inapt to express the truth of supraphysical realities.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span> = Types of Imagination = == Mental Imagination == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The one which comes from the mind. It includes ideas, images, scenarios etc. This imagination is more of delusional in nature. This imagination has a common tendency to want to materialize. This is something that every human beings possess. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Ordinarily, our mental imagination is an instrument of Ignorance.</span> == Truth Imagination == <div style="color:#000000;">The one which comes from a higher state or truth consciousness. Inspiration and Intuitions are powers of this truth consciousness.</div> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">As the mind opens to the higher regions, a higher force passes through all mental layer. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It reveals itself as new truths, a new philosophical system, a new spiritual teachings. This imagination prepare a new age. All the saints and great beings possess this capacity of truth imagination.</span> = Sources of Imagination = <div style="color:#000000;">'''The Mental and Truth imaginations have different sources.'''</div> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''Mental Imagination'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">is sometimes coming from a variation of a memory and/or combination of actualities. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a substitute for true conciseness faculty of intuition of possibilities.</span> <div style="color:#000000;">The sources from which mental imagination comes has nothing to do with the reason and does not care for any rational objections. They come from the vital mind, which picks up random suggestions anywhere and present it to the mind just to see whether it will be accepted. If one watches he can see that a lot of irrational thoughts pass through mind.</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">vital mind, i.e. the mental faculty under the influence of ‘desires, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after life-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ which builds the plans and imagines.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ordinarily, the vital mind’s imagination is governed by an unbalanced vital, a weak nervous system and unruled impulses without any true mental will or strong vital to steady it.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mind is not an original and primary creative power of consciousness; it isa derivative, an instrument, an intermediary creator. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Our mind stands between superconscience and </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">Inconscience</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">(</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#009966;">subconscience</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">) and receives from both the these opposite powers.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A higher Imagination or </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Truth Imagination'''</span> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">As mind ascends towards truth consciousness, the mental power becomes a truth imagination. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The mind then is able to receive inspirations and seeing power of the mind develops. It is no longer constructing, imagining, fantasising, creating scenarios, but is a channel, a receptor of the higher knowledge, the truth consciousness. </span> = How to Control Imagination = <div style="color:#000000;">One can turn the imagination upwards or downwards. Up above lies all inspiration of artistic and literary things. This comes from another domain, not the mental-vital repository. The finer beauty and creativity can manifest through receiving light from above. </div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can be aware of all the thoughts happening in the mind and choose to put them in their place, keep some thoughts, destroy some and focus all formative power on creating the images that confirms with one’s highest aspiration</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">. Imagination is a faculty which can be disciplined, can be used at will, directed and oriented. It is one of the faculty one can develop in oneself and be used for definite purpose.</span> = Use of Imagination = <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Imagination can be used to create one’s inner and outer life</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. It is an elementary way to creating and of forming things in the world. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Our imagination goes ahead of our life. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One can imagine what one wants to be and open paths for realizations. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">By using the power of imagination one can project oneself into the future </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and this helps the person in moving forward to actualizing that potential.</span> <div style="color:#000000;">Imagination is useful in science. Without imagination humans will not discover anything.</div> <div style="color:#000000;">The more optimistic one’s imagination is the greater the chances of realizing one's aim.</div> = Imagination and Yoga = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The power of imagination is very useful in yoga. This power of making form is a stays as a creative potential form in oneself. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">When the mind is put in communion with the divine will, the Truth begins to descend through the layers between the mind and the highest Light.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This often takes the form of vision, and its communion with the creative energy helps translate the seed ideas and imagination into manifested realities. </span> = Mis-use of Imagination = <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">If Imagination is used in unconscious and excessive way without discipline, it brings negative consequences on the person</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span> <div style="color:#000000;">Most of the people give form to one's fears and anticipates accidents and miss fortunes. This undermines one’s own future. Stop imagining the wrong things and the misery will stop at the same time.</div> = Practices = <div style="color:#000000;">Imagining in detail about how one wants one’s spiritual and material life is a good practice to gain clarity and inspiration towards life ahead.</div> <div style="color:#000000;">Being mindful of one’s Imagination is helpful to understand oneself better.</div> <div style="color:#000000;">Dream journaling is also a good exercise to understand the content of one's deep unconscious mind.</div>