राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

CHAPTER II
THE POWERS OF THE MIND
The instrument of the Education-
ist is the mind or antahkarana, which
consists of four layers. The reservoir
of past mental impressions, the chitta
or storehouse of memory, which must
be distinguished from the specific act
of memory, is the foundation on which
all the other layers stand. All experi-
ence lies within us as passive or poten-
tial memory ; active memory selects
and takes what it requires from that
storehouse. But the active memory
is like a man searching among a
great mass of locked-up material;
sometime he cannot find what he
wants ; often in his rapid search he
stumbles across many things for which
he has no immediate need ; often too