Sarad Dancing on Arunachela

 

 The mind will subside only by means of the enquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'Who am I?', destroying all other thoughts will itself be finally destroyed like the stick used to stoke a fire..........When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all the thoughts the thought 'I' is the root. Therefore the mind is only the thought 'I'. From where does this 'I' arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. p88

 

The 'I' thought rises from the Heart, identifies itself with the body and creates the illusion of an individual self by identifying itself with all the body's thoughts and perceptions. If one can focus all of one's attention on the 'I' thought, that is, on the inner feeling of 'I' or 'I am', ignoring all other mental activities, then the 'I' thought will stop identifying with thoughts and perceptions and start to subside into its source, the Heart. When it has completely subsided into the Heart the illusion of the individual self vanishes. p87

 

The first thought to appear is the 'I' thought. It rises in the Heart and in a split second travels to the brain, identifies with the body and the senses, and then sees the world around it as a real world. Follow the quest 'Who am I?'. Follow the 'I' back to its source. When the 'I' goes back to its source and identifies with the Self instead of with the senses, there is eternal peace and bliss. To do this you have to get rid of all thoughts. The first of all thoughts is the 'I' thought. Give up all other thoughts and catch hold of the 'I' thought. The Self will then embrace that 'I' and devour it. p89

 (Extracts from  NO MIND, I AM THE SELF. Available from www.davidgodman.org)

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                                     THE INFINITE POWER OF THE SELF

Once you are established in the state of no-mind, no one can do anything to you unless you consciously let them do it. You can allow something to happen or not to happen. Whether it happens or not, you remain a witness - completely untouched and unperturbed, ever established in the state of supreme detachment

Suppose someone wants to harm you or even kill you. They cannot lift a finger against you if you do not permit it. As long as your sankalpa (resolve) is there, nothing they do can affect you. They will in some mysterious way always fail. Finally they might reach the conclusion that something, some divine power, is protecting you. But this power is the infinite power of the Self. It is not some power that comes from outside. The source of this power is within you. You become that infinite power.

When you are egoless you are everything. The entire universe is with an enlightened being. Even the animals, trees, mountains and rivers, and the sun and the moon and the stars are on the side of the Self-Realised soul - because in that state you are ego less. When you bow down before all existence, in utter humility, the universe (existence) bows down to you and serves you.

                                                                 Amma
  
     

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