Bhagavan, our mind has lead us throughout our lives. To awaken we must free ourselves from the mind. But how can we free ourselves from this mind which is in charge? Bhagavan: The first thing to realize is, it is not your mind or somebodys mind, it is the human mind. We think it is our mind, while it is not really so. Thats why we call it the one mind. All mind, whosoevers mind it is, tha...t one mind, has fear at its center. Fear is the core of the mind. Not only that, mind is nothing but a flow of thought from the past, through the present, into the future. This is what the mind does. And mind has got jealousy, anger, lust, desire, all these things are the qualities of the mind. No matter whos mind it is. They have the same qualities. So, the first thing to realize is that all mind is only one mind. Let us say you have tuberculosis, you can not say it is my tuberculosis or her tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is tuberculosis. So the mind is the mind. It is not your mind, or his mind or her mind. Theres just the one mind with those qualities. This we must first realize. Next we must realize that this mind is very, very ancient. Its as old as man is. It has not changed at all. The brain itself has changed very little and the human mind has virtually not changed. The ancient man had fear of the tiger or the lion or something and modern man has fear of the share market or losing his job or girlfriend, so its the same thing. The ancient man desired for a spear, you desire for a car or a house, or some such thing. So it is the very same mind, only the object of fear or the object of desire has changed. You must realize this is an ancient mind. Not only is it the one mind, it is also the ancient mind. Just like sugar has some qualities, like it tastes sweet, its specific gravity is something, its specific heat is something. If you take salt, it has its own taste and its specific gravity is something, its specific heat is something. Those are the qualities of salt, those are the qualities of sugar. Sugar, you cannot make into salt, nor salt into sugar. Similarly, these are the qualities of the mind, as designed by nature, as designed by your brain. Theres NOTHING you could do about it. When it strikes you, like a ton of bricks, that it is impossible to change the mind. It must really strike you, not intellectually, not even as an insight, but actually you must see that the mind can not be changed. It was, it is and will be the same. Maybe when the brain changes tomorrow, it could change. So what you must see is that it is the one mind, it is ancient and it is impossible to change it. If you really see it, you will become free of the mind. It will no more trouble you. It will be there, but it will be working on its own. It will no more infringe on your consciousness, it will no more take charge, it will no more trouble you. Its like a stranger living in your house, it will be there working on its own. It wont bother you. Now, the next part of your question is, who is there in charge? Your consciousness is in charge. Consciousness knows how to respond to different situations. Not the mind, but consciousness takes over. The mind generally reacts to situations. Consciousness responds. When the mind does something it will go back and think Did I do the right thing or the wrong thing? When consciousness responds, you do not go back and think whether it was the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. Whatever consciousness does, it is perfect. It would take over and there will be no problems at all when consciousness functions. When the mind functions, the mind being divisive, it creates problems
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:01:14 +0000