Elevate base desires into Krishna consciousness through understanding the soul's natural role as servant of the supreme enjoyer.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śyāmasundara: So there is another psychologist, Carl Jung, he's also very important. A follower of Freud, he followed Freud.
Śyāmasundara: I mean chronologically. His, whereas Freud's, Freud's idea was that unconscious processes are invariably infantile, animal, or pathological. Jung said that some unconscious energies are sources of positive and creative activity. That the unconscious is important for the growth and development of the mature and well-adjusted personality. Freud investigated the unconscious and found that the negative side, that our unconscious life is always threatening us, that it is the cause of pathological...
Prabhupāda: What do you mean by unconscious life?
Śyāmasundara: Subconscious, that which we are not consciously aware of there is always...
Prabhupāda: That means I have got the consciousness but it is covered.
Śyāmasundara: Yes. He says that, "That unconscious part of our mind is dangerous, infantile, animalistic." But Jung says that, "The unconscious can also be positive and helpful to our growth of our personalities, that it can be an asset to understand this unconscious life."
Prabhupāda: Well, but I think that the subconscious status as it is covered by the present consciousness. Similarly, it can be covered by Ka consciousness, so that those subconscious states will be no more be able to react.