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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
natural. What is really surprising is that people do not try to understand these entities by means other than of the intellect. The intellectual powers of such people are really undeveloped and attempts to sharpen the intellect will have to be made. Attempts will also have to be made to sharpen memory. In such a situation the knowledge of those who command supersensual powers remained and still remains beyond the purview of the intellect and memory. We can know our body with the help of the sense-organs and the intellect. We can perceive it with the help of the intellect. The human body has been subjected to a searching analysis in the past as well as in the present. Descriptions of each and every part of the body are available today. Ancient descriptions of the body were based on perception and inference. Modern descriptions are based on scientific investigations and experiments. The human body is an unconscious entity and has a form. It is perceptible with the sense-organs and hence the description of its component parts is possible. Every cell of the body has by now been examined and its structure described. Our eyes do not give a complete picture of things. According to Dr. Hook if you see the cork stopper on the mouth of a bottle with the help of a microscope, you will find a number of nets in it which are not visible with the bare eye. Similarly you will see innumerable cells in a living body with the help of a microscope which will not be visible otherwise.
Let us now pass on to the subtle body. Material structures are of two kinds, gross and subtle. The subtle structures are called catusparśī (four sense contacts) pudgalas and the gross structures are called aștasparsi (eight sense contacts) pudgalas. Gross structures can be perceived with the eyes or instruments, but it is very difficult to perceive subtle structures.
Psychology has divided the mind into three parts, the conscious mind, the subconscious mind and the unconscious mind. The subtle body lies beyond these three parts. Investigations conducted in the cells have the gross body as their starting point. The subtle structure of the cell is a wonderful structure. It is a very complex one. There are eleven lac seventy thousand five hundred cells to one square inch in the
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