FROM A SITE VISITOR: I finally understand your pointer that even if arms and legs and organs are ‘lost’ I Am still Me. But now, how to be free of my racing mind, once and for all?
F.: Next, it should be clarified that even the term “multiple minds” is a distortion, just a thorn used along the way to remove another thorn. To try to aim a pointer at the multiplicity of those various storehouses of ideas and concepts would be like trying to fire a rifle at numerous mirages in the desert in order to eliminate those mirages.
Fire away for decades, but nothing will result except a lot of noise and a disturbance of the peace. The only sane approach is to see that the multiple mirages are all…mirages. One cannot "eliminate" illusions. One can only see them for what they are.
You are also invited to understand that when Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj advised visitors to “…go back, reverse, to the source,” the “source” to which he pointed is not characterized by a “purified mind” or “re-purified mind.” The source was, is, and shall forever be…mindless. It is, in fact, Awareness with no awareness of awareness.
Persons can spend a lifetime “working on the mind,” but their labors in that regard will avail them nothing. What could it possibly avail persons traveling across a desert if they were to undertake the task of trying to eliminate all of the mirages that seem to appear along their path? Why not see illusions as illusions and be done with it all in one fell swoop?
But most will never understand that simple solution; instead, they will put forth all their efforts to purify the “mind(s).” Believing they have accomplished that, they will thereafter begin to talk of their “higher mind” or their “spiritual mind” or their "working mind, as opposed to their former thinking mind."
When their talk reaches that stage, there can be a limited period when the re-purified consciousness of a sadguru can speak of spiritual things and can speak of developing the spiritual mind.
That talk can take place as protégés move beyond body identification, beyond mind identification, and beyond non-religious or non-spiritual persona identifications as they move to the stage of adopting religious and spiritual personas.
Yet that talk will only guide the seeker to the midpoint of the entire “journey” to Full Realization, and if the “mind” was transcended at the second of seven steps on the “path,” then obviously the “mind” cannot be the tool that is available for use during the remainder of the “journey.”
At some point, the sadguru must function in the natural way that a mother bear functions with her cubs. She can show them the way only for a limited period, and after all of the outer lessons have been modeled and taught, she must leave them to continue their "journey" through employment of their own inner devices.
Then, spontaneously—with no further guidance or teaching—they will hunt during the day and seek shelter at night; spontaneously—with no further guidance or teaching—they will know all required to prepare for and enter into hibernation; spontaneously—with no further guidance or teaching—they will socialize and procreate.
And spontaneously, at some point, the elements of their elemental bodies shall move apart and merge with the universal pool of elements; the breath will leave the space and merge with the universal pool of air; and the consciousness shall unmanifest and merge into the universal pool of energy...merely moving from one limited space to an unlimited space.
Before that happening, what unfolds automatically for the remainder of the manifestation of the consciousness via those cubs/bears will happen mindlessly. The elemental brain and the conscious-energy will function in tandem, and all that the bears will “need to know” will be known…instinctively, intuitively, naturally, unthinkingly, unaffectedly, and unpretentiously (that is, in a nisarga fashion).
That is the invitation here: to Realize fully and thereafter witness all as it happens nisarga-ly, functioning naturally without a mind—or multiple minds—that generate either
(1) a non-stop whirlwind that churns up an unending cyclone of thoughts that eliminate any opportunity for stillness to manifest, or
(2) subconscious motives that drive persons without their having the slightest awareness that they are being driven rather than making conscious decisions. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (Tomorrow: The Conclusion)
