Q.-- I should like to ask, in continuation of Professor ----'s question, whether you know of any people who have made any study of the principles of self-hypnotism, which they undoubtedly practised to a great extent in ancient India, and what has been recently stated and practised in that thing.
Of course you do not have it so much in modern India.
A.-- What you call hypnotism in the West is only a part of the real thing. The Hindus call it self-hypnotisation.
They say you are hypnotised already, and that you should get out of it and de-hypnotise yourself.
"There the sun cannot illumine, nor the moon, nor the stars; the flash of lightning cannot illumine that; what to speak of this mortal fire! That shining, everything else shines" (Katha Upanishad, II.ii.15).
That is not hypnotisation, but de-hypnotisation.
We say that every other religion that preaches these things as real is practising a form of hypnotism. It is the Advaitist alone that does not care to be hypnotised. His is the only system that more or less understands that hypnotism comes with every form of dualism.
But the Advaitist says, throw away even the Vedas, throw away even the Personal God, throw away even the universe, throw away even your own body and mind, and let nothing remain, in order to get rid of hypnotism perfectly.
"From where the mind comes back with speech, being unable to reach, knowing the Bliss of Brahman, no more is fear."
That is de-hypnotisation.
"I have neither vice nor virtue, nor misery nor happiness; I care neither for the Vedas nor sacrifices nor ceremonies; I am neither food nor eating nor eater, for I am Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute; I am He, I am He."
We know all about hypnotism. We have a psychology which the West is just beginning to know, but not yet adequately, I am sorry to say.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
Of course you do not have it so much in modern India.
A.-- What you call hypnotism in the West is only a part of the real thing. The Hindus call it self-hypnotisation.
They say you are hypnotised already, and that you should get out of it and de-hypnotise yourself.
"There the sun cannot illumine, nor the moon, nor the stars; the flash of lightning cannot illumine that; what to speak of this mortal fire! That shining, everything else shines" (Katha Upanishad, II.ii.15).
That is not hypnotisation, but de-hypnotisation.
We say that every other religion that preaches these things as real is practising a form of hypnotism. It is the Advaitist alone that does not care to be hypnotised. His is the only system that more or less understands that hypnotism comes with every form of dualism.
But the Advaitist says, throw away even the Vedas, throw away even the Personal God, throw away even the universe, throw away even your own body and mind, and let nothing remain, in order to get rid of hypnotism perfectly.
"From where the mind comes back with speech, being unable to reach, knowing the Bliss of Brahman, no more is fear."
That is de-hypnotisation.
"I have neither vice nor virtue, nor misery nor happiness; I care neither for the Vedas nor sacrifices nor ceremonies; I am neither food nor eating nor eater, for I am Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute; I am He, I am He."
We know all about hypnotism. We have a psychology which the West is just beginning to know, but not yet adequately, I am sorry to say.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Q & A at Graduate Philosophical Society
of Harvard University on March 25, 1896
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