Who am I, Paragraph 13

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It is only when the subtle mind is externalized through the activity

of the intellect and the sense-organs that the gross name and form

constituting the world appear. When, on the other hand, the mind

stays firmly in the Heart, they recede and disappear. Restraint of

the out-going mind and its absorption in the Heart is known as

introversion (antarmukda-drishti). The release of mind and its

emergence in the Heart is known as objectiveness (bahirmukda-

drihshi).

 

COMMENTS

 

My teachers say that your spiritual experience comes from where

you "stand," where you "put" your identity. Standing as the body, as

the ego-I, the mind "goes out" and there is the world (when standing

as a separate identity, then there is the world). Standing as the

Self, the mind stays in the Heart, and the separate world and its

names and forms is no longer the experience. Standing as the One,

there is no other. Thus Ramana's teaching to look to the `first'

(person), rather than the `second' and `third.'

 

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We are Not two,

Richard