Guest guest Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Dear Friends, Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: What is the difference between mind and I? Please post on club, or if your prefer email srini_sadhu. We will be compiling your responses and posting it on the following page: http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 Love srini Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Namaste: " I " am infinite and eternal, I am Shiva. The mind is the computer which lives inside the body. It process data: good, bad, and indifferent. It is like a computer. It becomes infected by a virus, the ego. The Chandi is the virus protection. Chant it and the ego is erased. Once the ego- virus-is gone, the mind - computer- can function as designed. Pure impulses of love, devotion, compassion, knowledge and wisdom, can move through the system and " I " can be Myself again. Jai Ma Jai Swami vishweshwar , " srini_sadhu " <srini_sadhu wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: > > What is the difference between mind and I? > > Please post on club, or if your prefer email srini_sadhu > > We will be compiling your responses and posting it on the following page: > > http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 > > Love > srini > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Dear Srini and All, The scriptures say that " I " is a thought, the root thought or the first thought; the thought to which all other thoughts are connected as the trunk and branches of a tree are connected to the root. Mind is often compared to an ocean or a lake of pure water, and the thoughts to waves, or vrittis (whirlpools), disturbing the surface of the water. Sri Ramakrishna often said that " pure mind and pure Brahman are the same " . One might think of mind as a lake of crystal clear water, across which the breeze of desire gently blows forming thought-waves, first the " I am " , and from that, endless others, endlessly replicating themselves. In the Ashtavakra Sanghita, Janaka speaks to his Guru Ashtavakra of the realization of Brahman with which he has just been graced: " Oh, how wonderful! In me the boundless ocean, the waves of this universe arise, play for a while, and then subside, impelled by the wind of their own inherent nature. I am unaffected and tranquil; I neither increase nor decrease thereby. Oh how wonderful " . With love, Kumari , " srini_sadhu " <srini_sadhu wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: > > What is the difference between mind and I? > > Please post on club, or if your prefer email srini_sadhu > > We will be compiling your responses and posting it on the following page: > > http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 > > Love > srini > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Namaste' Swamiji In regarding this question it seems to me that " I " is the disquise that the Great Ego is wearing. Whereas " mind " is the ways in which the Ego and other asuras attempt to manipulate and mainfest in the world. Another way I'm thinking of this is that " I " am the container, and the " mind " is all of the stuff that is filling it. Once I can allow the container to empty and let it be filled by Maa then the Ego and asuras have no place to go. JAI MAA OM Shanti Morningsong , " srini_sadhu " <srini_sadhu wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: > > What is the difference between mind and I? > > Please post on club, or if your prefer email srini_sadhu > > We will be compiling your responses and posting it on the following page: > > http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 > > Love > srini > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 The little 'i' is the ego. The big 'I' is God. " When the 'i' will die, then " I " will know who I am. " The mind is something that we appear to think with and that we or i/'one' owns. The mind seems to bring about separation from God, duality, and forgetfulness of God. Maybe when separation ceases, the mind ceases, and God continues as pure Consiousness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 Namaste, Srini, Thank you for allowing me to humbly offer my thoughts to Beloved Swamiji on this matter. What is the difference between the mind and I? There is no difference. They are one and the same. I am the Mind, and the Mind is I. I am the compilation of my thoughts and my thoughts make up me. If one is lucky enough rise above them, one realizes there is only love. And so the veil dissolves... peace, sal. , " srini_sadhu " <srini_sadhu wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: What is the difference between mind and I? Please post on club, or if your prefer email srini_sadhu We will be compiling your responses and posting it on the following page: > > http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 > > Love > srini > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Namaste Sal, Thank you! I will add it to the blog. Love srini , " sal. " <salpaulsen wrote: > > Namaste, Srini, > > Thank you for allowing me to humbly offer my thoughts to Beloved > Swamiji on this matter. > > What is the difference between the mind and I? > > There is no difference. They are one and the same. I am the Mind, > and the Mind is I. I am the compilation of my thoughts and my > thoughts make up me. > > If one is lucky enough rise above them, one realizes there is only > love. And so the veil dissolves... > > peace, > sal. > > > , " srini_sadhu " <srini_sadhu@> > wrote: > > > > Dear Friends, > > > > Swamiji would like to read your response to the following question: > What is the difference between mind and I? Please post on club, or if > your prefer email srini_sadhu@ We will be compiling your responses > and posting it on the following page: > > > > http://www.shreemaa.org/drupal/taxonomy_menu/55/123 > > > > Love > > srini > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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