BREAK THIS ALLIANCE OF BODY N MIND TO GO BEYOND THIS BODILY EXISTENCE

Do you know that body and mind, always, exist together? They can’t exist or remain apart, from each other, for too long. This is for the simple reason that mind is nothing but tendencies, in essence. Tendencies or habits which we commonly know, as vasanas can’t remain without physical expression. Tendencies want physical expression and physical expression is not possible without a medium like this body. That’s why this physical body. Mind too is physical but subtler than the gross body. 

Body and mind are like hardware and software. Both, hardware and software, exist together and can’t exist without each other, for too long. The software though subtle but can find expression through a gross form i.e. hardware only. Similarly, if you see a hardware then know, for sure, that there is certain software, which is functioning in that hardware. So, whatever the physical forms or bodies which you see around, are nothing but some kind of hardware or gross structure, through which some specific software or mind is finding expression. 

Thus, your physical body is just a temporary covering which, your mind has taken upon itself, so that this mind can find expression through this physical body. Though, you may think or assume, so many things, about yourself but in reality, your mind or your tendencies are actually living in this body. In reality, you are nothing but just an expression of your mind only. It’s your mind which is actually driving this body. Body is just a tool, in the hands of your mind. 

Your individuality is limited to your waking and if you pay little attention, you will observe that, in your waking, you are an expression of your mind only. You are just an expression of your tendencies or vasanas or simply the information only. That’s why, everyday though, you wake up to a new day but your today is no different than yesterday. Similarly, your tomorrow, too, is nothing but just a repetition of yesterday only because the same old mind is finding expression. 

Mind body or subtle body is not lost even after death, like it’s not lost after sleep. Though, in your sleep, your mind disappears temporarily but is not lost. After sleep, the same mind wakes up and begins to work, in the same body. Similarly, after death the same mind wakes up, though in a new physical body and begins to function again. Thus, what we know as birth n death are nothing but change of hardware or bodies only but the fundamental software or essence of tendencies, remains the same. 

Now, until and unless, efforts are made to break this alliance of mind and body, this journey will not stop. Only the bodies will change. Body is just a consequence of the mind or subtle body. So long, the mind is alive, this alliance or physical existence will continue as ever, because mind will find a suitable body. 

Hence, the only way out of this continued bodily existence is to break this alliance i.e. kill this mind, for once and all. Now killing the mind does not mean physical killing but dissolving or washing this mind or energy, off its tendencies, which this energy has taken upon itself. Mind or subtle body, too, is the same energy but since this energy has taken impressions, from outside, upon itself and hence this energy has lost its purity. Because of these impurities, this energy has separated from its Source and has, now, manifested in a physical form. Now, as we all know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can only be transformed. Hence, washing this energy, off its impurities means transformation of this energy back into its original form. Upon transformation, this energy doesn’t retain anything of its past and regains originality.

Once the energy is transformed, off its impurities, the transformed or pure energy never seeks a physical form again because now it has nothing, in itself, which needs expression. Pure energy just merges with the Source, where it had originally separated from. Thus, breaking this alliance of mind energy with the physical body is the only way out of this bodily existence. Merger of energy with its Source, is traditionally known as mukti or moksha i.e. liberation of energy from physical form. Meditation is a technology which helps transform this mind energy back into pure energy.