BE FREE OF YOUR MIND AND YOU ARE HOME

Being conscious means freeing yourself of your mind. What then remains is pure consciousness which is your nature. If you are free of your mind you are liberated. Mind is bondage and no-mind is freedom. 

In every moment of your waking hours, (why waking hours only? because your individuality is limited to the waking hours only) you are one of the two things. You are either mind or you are no-mind. Mind means you – you as an individual; you as a doer which we know as ego. No-mind means Him- the existence or the divine. Mind is what we have picked up from outside and hence un-natural. No-mind is integral to us and hence our natural state. We need to remember that our natural state has not lost anywhere. We do not have to get or bring it from somewhere. Our natural state which is no-mind state is always there with us. Always there, as it is, and in its primal state. It’s we who have moved away from that state because we are always lost and busy in our mind. If you remove your mind or become free of your mind, you would be home. You would have arrived which is what we know as Self-realization or enlightenment. An enlightened being is one who is always in no-mind state which is the only existential state. 

We have tasted this no-mind state though very rarely. When you are not in your mind you are one with the existence. You become universal. Mind or thoughts make you limited. Mind is nothing but thoughts – multitude of thoughts. Mind appears with thoughts and disappears when there are no thoughts. Mind has no objective or independent existence. Mind is an illusion. It exists in thoughts. It thrives and survives in thoughts and cannot exist without thoughts. Mind is just thoughts and objects. 

To be in our natural state what is required is to start becoming aware of the ‘gaps’ – gaps between two thoughts. All spiritual practices or ‘sadhana’ aim at two things only i.e. first, to taste or become aware of these gaps and secondly, to sustain these gaps. An enlightened being is one who is able to sustain this gap, between two thoughts, all the time. He is never in mind or thoughts. This does not mean that he cannot think. There is a difference between a thought and thinking. Thoughts are compulsive; repetitive which is our current state now. But thinking is conscious and not compulsive. An enlightened being thinks but an ordinary person is in thoughts. 

The spiritual practice to become aware of these gaps and to sustain these gaps is what we know as meditation. Meditation means becoming aware of these gaps. As the practice strengthens these gaps become large. A time comes when this ‘gap’ or no-mind state becomes your nature which is what we know as ‘Samadhi’. ‘Samadhi’ is end of meditation is. Knowing your real nature is liberation. Living in Knowledge is freedom and living in ignorance is bondage.  

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