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the Mind to Face its Source
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When
your mind is not clinging to any object, to any person or idea, its
face is turned towards its Source.
This is very simple.
Millions of books about enlightenment and freedom have been written
and are available in the world, and what is the result? People have
been working for enlightenment, freedom, liberation, emancipation,
moksham, since thousands of years. What is the result? Everything
that you do, everything that you have been told to do, it is with
the mind. When you read a book you are reading with the mind. When
you are meditating you are meditating with the mind. When you are
doing anything you are always doing it with the mind. This is why
there is no result.
Distract the mind
immediately from any object, person, or idea. It is that simple. Then
the face of the mind is turned towards its source for the first time,
and a reflection from somewhere un-told, un-described will fall on
this mind which is not dwelling on the past. All objects, ideas, and
people belong to the past. Now for the first time the mind has been
directed towards its own native place, its own abode.
With the reflection
of beyond it loses its entity as the mind. It becomes no-mind now.
It is satyam - truth, shivam, and sundaram. Other
than this I am not aware of any other process by which you could be
free. If you have any ideas, any attachments to anything - including
your own body, your mind, your intellect or anything else - how could
you be free? Just by giving rise to one thought of the mind - the
‘I’ thought - and there is instantly past, present, future, manifestation,
suffering and a cycle of incarnations, never ending reincarnations.
If you so choose,
if you so desire, it can be put to an end right now. But you have
not taken that decision so far. You have been postponing this decision
and passing through millions of births, taking millions of years and
this decision still is waiting. I do not know what you are looking
for or why you are afraid to return to your own native place, to the
abode of all auspiciousness, happiness, love, and beauty. Why are
you shirking your responsibilities?
9 July, 1992
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