This answer could go on forever but if I were to summarise the preoccupations of the Indians as per their spirituality it is this: They seem to think and know that the physical mind is limited and the physical thinking process is not good for purpose but for minor daily activity. They seem to think that there is another energy or force that is beyond their physical body that is a kind of “intelligence” of the Cosmos that can be tapped into and used for thinking, instead of the limited thinking power from the physical mind. They seem to think that one can shift the thinking process from the contained-in-the-brain-physical-mind and somehow through silence in the physical mind get in touch with the universal mind of the cosmos and use it like a massive “brain” for thinking. They seem to think that thinking with the universal mind brings no conflicts in thoughts but only the Truth of things.
You know I have heard of people wanting to go to Mars and they tell me some guy just sent a car to mars but really thinking with a universal brain is just out of this world when compared with all the other feats of the human being so far.
Now just to summaries and makes things a little bit clearer as to what is the universal mind, look at this diagram below.
You see prior to birth there was only the universal force or energy. Then there was the embryo and birth and the body taking on its own energy. Thinking is limited to the physical mind BUT the body is still connected to the universal mind.
It is omnipresent and all encompassing and totally integrated with everything. This is an invisible force in us but due to the “noise” of the mind and body we can’t seem to come to it or feel it or see it while we are alive. This is the only chance for us with the human body to get to see this energy or become it. This in itself, by the spiritualist seems to be the ultimate purpose in life, to see one’s latent power in us by getting in touch with this universal force while we are still alive and experience the full power of the human mindbodysoul and to think with this “new” mind rather than the limited physical mind.
The rhetoric might look a bit complicated as the mind tries to use vocabulary to describe the experience for another to see IT, a Truth or not, only you can decide when you come up to your new mind and think with it and experience the powers that come with it, but the spiritualist all seem to say the same thing. If the physical thinking mind does not stop while you are still alive to simulate prebirth and post death conditions – then you are never going to see ME (just kidding).
Try this to silent your mind: if you can see that thinking with the physical mind is just sub-vocal speech, that you have to silently speak what you are thinking to have to think at all, then you can use the movement of your vocal cords as a mantra to stop thinking anytime you want too. It is as if the brain needs to hear you for it to know what you are thinking. Thinking I believe is not different from speaking aloud – both same thing. There might be a more complicated process that comes after it but it is sound first. This can be easily seen if you read a passage from a book and see that you cannot read if you are not silently speaking at the same time but this phenomenon carries itself to the physical mind thinking process BUT the universal mind thinking is only through a silent mode of intuition or silent perception or a sense of knowing with no movement in vocal cords or any physical aspects of the mind and body needed to communicate using the universal mind. It becomes just a sense of being and you are connected to this massive force and all your decisions are made by being in this sense of being and silent with a sense of knowing about everything.
There is no conflict in mind with the universal mind.