Mind - 3

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Khanna: The jiva is said to be mind plus illumination.

What is it that desires Self-realization and what is

it that obstructs our path to Self-realization? It is

said that the mind obstructs and the illumination

helps.

 

Bhagavan: Although we describe the jiva as mind plus

the reflected light of the Self, in actual practice,

in life, you cannot separate the two, just as, in the

illustrations we used yesterday, you cannot separate

cloth and whiteness in a white cloth or fire and iron

in a red-hot rod. The mind can do nothing by itself.

It emerges only with the illumination and can do no

action, good or bad, except with the illumination. But

while the illumination is always there, enabling the

mind to act well or ill, the pleasures or pain

resulting from such action is not felt by the

illumination, just as when you hammer a red-hot rod it

is not the fire but the iron that gets the hammering.

 

 

 

 

 

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