Sri Bhagwan: There are not two minds, a good mind and a bad mind. THE MIND IS ONLY ONE. Tendencies alone are of two kinds, auspicious and inauspicious. When the mind is under the influence of auspicious tendencies it is called a good mind, and when it is under the influence of inauspicious tendencies, a bad mind.
Prose Version of ‘Who am I?’
Dear Devotees,
There is only one mind. There is no such thing really as ‘my mind’ and ‘your mind’. When we say that this is my mind and that is your mind, it is erroneous, pure ignorance and the cause of bondage. But we should know that the Pure Mind is only one. When through the Enquiry, impurities and tendencies vanish, Mind shines as It is, as the Power of the Supreme Self-consciousness. It follows therefore that the Pure Mind is indeed only one, existing ever the same, as It is, as the as the Power of the Consciousness that remains merged non-dually with the Supreme Self.
PURE MIND IS ONLY ONE. TRUE ‘I’ IS ONLY ONE. If there is only one True ‘I’, why are there so many ‘I’s in view? There appear many selves because It is viewed through the limitation ‘I am the body’. So, one true ‘I’, ever shining as the One Single Truth, appears as innumerable different ‘I’s.
Sri Muruganar: Know them all (the ‘I’s) to be collectively one, not different from each other, by viewing through the swarupa perspective that shines as the one deathless Self, pure being-consciousness.
Thus, dear devotees, the ego ‘I am the body’ is alone the one unique cause of all our suffering and miseries of life. This ‘I am the body’ ego is sorrow laden. Is it not?
Sri Muruganar: Learning, listening, nidhidhyasana, clinging to Grace, divine silence, supreme abode, unassailable peace, performing yaga, devotion, distributing gifts, tapas, dharma, and yoga—ALL OF THEM MEAN THE SAME THING, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ‘I AM THE BODY’ DELUSION.
Sri Bhagwan : Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is Jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.
Dear devotees, the purpose of all spiritual practices therefore amounts only to the destruction of the demeaning limitation ‘I am the body’ ego. However, we are, of late, discerning a very queer tendency in this Forum. Somebody reads somewhere ‘I am the Self’ and starts asserting and chanting ‘I am the Self’, ‘I am the Self’, while the ‘I am the body’ ego remains visibly intact, while the Chit-Jada Granti or the Knot between the Consciousness and the inert body has not been uprooted. Therefore, who is it that claims Enlightenment? Sri Bhagwan has taught that there remains no to claim in Enlightenment. Sri Bhagwan, in my knowledge, Himself never claimed. OBVIOUSLY, IT IS THE FLARED-UP EGO, GROWING STILL BIGGER AND BIGGER TO UNMANAGEABLE FORM.
But we know that the Authentic Peace, Sri Bhagwan speaks of, cannot spring forth except in a heart from which this obnoxious knot binding the Consciousness with the inert body is not uprooted through beneficial Vichara. SO, WE MUST ENQUIRE KEENLY, AND WITH THE SHARP, DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF JNANA-VICHARA CUTT OFF THE KNOT AND THE EGO, THAT MISERY GENERATING DELUSION AND BE FREE.
Thanks very much.
Pranam,
Anil