Vigneshwar: Hi Floyd, Great excitement and joy in coming across your website. Can\'t tell you how much I had wanted to ask someone about this question that\'s in mind. There are moments when the unreality of all that\'s around us, including the body and mind, is clearly seen and discarded. A wonderful state comes where not-even-the-I exist. This of course, is known only after coming out of that state. Now, the mind wants to repeat this again and stay put in that state. Its making all conscious efforts possible to get back to where it came from. Now, why is it very anxious? I sometimes, want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong. Afraid a bit that i might again forget to be THAT, like forgetting my TRUE SELF. What\'s the remedy for the aching mind? Vigneshwar
F.: Today, Vigneshwar and other site visitors, the response will be in regards to these words: “I sometimes, want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong. Afraid a bit that i might again forget to be THAT, like forgetting my TRUE SELF. What\'s the remedy for the aching mind?”
Understand that there is no such thing as “peace of mind,” only peace when freed of "mind." Understand that there is no “mind-treatment” that can relieve the “aching mind.” You cannot treat a mirage in the desert and make it feel better. You can only see that it is a mirage and be done with mistaking it for something that is real. Reflect again on Tuesday’s pointer:
The deer lives naturally and peacefully because it is functioning under the auspices of its brain.
You were born with a brain but not with a “mind,” so only functioning under the auspices of a brain is natural. Functioning under the influence of a “mind” will only result in unnatural or supernatural living, and the illusions and duality of living with a “mind” and the duality of living unnaturally or supernaturally will generate the relative existence “aching” that you reference. There can be “freedom from mind” if you question all that you have been told and cast aside illusory ideas and concepts and dogma and beliefs. You must be out of your mind for the “aching” to stop.
Some persons reach a point where they ask, “What is all this about…this insane, relative existence?” or “This whole world is insane. Why not just be free of it once and for all?” or “There’s too much ‘aching’ and pain and suffering to go on. Why not destroy the body and release the energy and be done with it?” They have not yet begun the “journey.”
Some who have begun the “journey” reach a point where they say, “I sometimes want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong.” That reveals a total misunderstanding of what the ‘journey” is about, what the relative existence can be like post-Realization, and how Realization results in being in touch with reality—that is, being restored to sanity and having the ability to live naturally for the remainder of the period that the consciousness is manifested.
F.: Today, Vigneshwar and other site visitors, the response will be in regards to these words: “I sometimes, want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong. Afraid a bit that i might again forget to be THAT, like forgetting my TRUE SELF. What\'s the remedy for the aching mind?”
Understand that there is no such thing as “peace of mind,” only peace when freed of "mind." Understand that there is no “mind-treatment” that can relieve the “aching mind.” You cannot treat a mirage in the desert and make it feel better. You can only see that it is a mirage and be done with mistaking it for something that is real. Reflect again on Tuesday’s pointer:
The deer lives naturally and peacefully because it is functioning under the auspices of its brain.
You were born with a brain but not with a “mind,” so only functioning under the auspices of a brain is natural. Functioning under the influence of a “mind” will only result in unnatural or supernatural living, and the illusions and duality of living with a “mind” and the duality of living unnaturally or supernaturally will generate the relative existence “aching” that you reference. There can be “freedom from mind” if you question all that you have been told and cast aside illusory ideas and concepts and dogma and beliefs. You must be out of your mind for the “aching” to stop.
Some persons reach a point where they ask, “What is all this about…this insane, relative existence?” or “This whole world is insane. Why not just be free of it once and for all?” or “There’s too much ‘aching’ and pain and suffering to go on. Why not destroy the body and release the energy and be done with it?” They have not yet begun the “journey.”
Some who have begun the “journey” reach a point where they say, “I sometimes want death also to occur at the moment when this realization is strong.” That reveals a total misunderstanding of what the ‘journey” is about, what the relative existence can be like post-Realization, and how Realization results in being in touch with reality—that is, being restored to sanity and having the ability to live naturally for the remainder of the period that the consciousness is manifested.
Tomorrow’s focus, therefore, will be on explaining how Full Realization provides the skill for living an AS IF existence that is free of “aching.” [In preparation for those who have not read all of the postings on this site and who do not understand fully what “AS IF living” refers to, please use the search engine at the top of this page, type in as and if in the space provided, and then click “search this blog.”] Then, focus on the turn your existence could take if you were no longer handicapped by the presence of that storehouse of man-made lies and damaged psyche and self-deceptions called “the mind.” Next, focus on this pointer: At the moment when Realization is strong, death is not feared but it is not wanted either. Realization results in the dissolution of all fear and all desire; therefore, you are mistaking an illusion for "realization." Please enter the silence of contemplation.
