Chapter 26Mind in the Integral Yoga and in Other · Indian Systems

There is a discrimination [in the intuitive consciousness] that is not intellectual — a direct perception.

* No, the world of Knowledge is composed of several planes. It is from one of them that inspiration comes.

Intuition is above illumined Mind — which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.

* The substance of knowledge is the same [in the higher mind and the illumined mind], but the higher mind gives only the substance and form of knowledge in thought and word — in the illumined mind there begins to be a peculiar light and energy and ananda of knowledge which grows as one rises higher in the scale or else as the knowledge comes from a higher and higher source. This light etc. are still rather diluted and diffused in the illumined mind; it becomes more and more intense, clearly defined, dynamic and effective on the higher planes, so much so as to change always the character and power of the knowledge.

when something of its power comes down and is modified in the lower mind substance that it acts as part of the intellect.

* It depends on what is meant by the higher buddhi — whether you use the word to mean the higher part of the intellect or the higher Mind. The higher Mind in itself on its own level knows, but when it is involved in the ordinary human intelligence and works under limitations, it often does not know — or it has the