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Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.
A group which had come here from Gujarat, the members of which have been given for long to spiritual pursuit, they have been doing very good sadhana. They wanted me to explain a particular portion in the book, “Science of Inner Redemption”. It was referring to how mind becomes the sole source and terminus of even the world. When I say this, many of you may not even listen to it with attention. The world is very huge, our body is very small. It is a part of this world. Can you imagine how big is the earth and how small is the body that we have? Then compared to the entire world and universe, how insignificant our body is! And this mind is within the body.
How can you say the mind is the source and terminus of the entire world? In the first hearing itself, people will dismiss it. That is where we lose God; we lose the supreme gain in life. Whenever a truth is heard or a statement is made, it is up to the listeners to give attention to it and think about it. Thoughtfulness, thoughtfulness, thoughtfulness, introspection, introspection, introspection, this is the very core of human life. Can you imagine a boy or a girl having been born in this world and his or her body alone growing in size? When he becomes 18 or 21, if the mind and the intelligence have not grown, what do you think of it? We have so many autistic children. Their body grows but they are not able to connect to the body with a healthy mind. So don’t dismiss the statement. Our mind is not a physical part of the body. Our mind is associated with the body.
We are living in a huge house. The house is much bigger than our body but we are different from the house. The house will not move, it is inert and insentient, but we move from place to place within the house. We can demolish the house if we want. We can rebuild the house if we want. Though we are smaller than the house, our body, how are we able to demolish it when we want and rebuild it when we want? It is only because we have a mind and intelligence within the body which have the capacity to think, think, design, design and then execute.
Our body is totally inert but the mind associated with the body, intelligence associated with the body is not inert. This mind if you probe into, you will find, it is greater than the world. You think of the eyes, they are very small, the smallest organ in the whole of our body. Though the eyes are very small, how much of distance we see with the eyes and how much of variety we see! We see a huge expanse on the earth. We go to the shore of the sea and still see a greater expanse. We look into the sky, there the expanse is infinite. The same eyes which see the tip of a pin, it sees a huge tree, the huge landscape, the still wider sea and the more expansive sky. In a beautiful dark night when you look at the sky, can you imagine how many stars will you be seeing? You cannot count the number of stars with the same eyes.
So the power and the presence that have made the eyes, made the ears, made the hand, made the skull, made the brain, what do you think of its potential and greatness? When we refer to the mind, refer to the intelligence, we are actually referring to this inner presence and it’s potential.
I was explaining yesterday as I do, many times I have done, you never see the world outside. It is the mind that imprints the world in itself which means the mind takes a mental imprint of the world and that imprint is what you experience and know. Whether you see an elephant or a goat or a mountain or the sun and the moon and stars, all of them are imprinted in your mind. It is the mind causing their imprint, that imprint is what we experience. So in the experience of the world, is the world crucial, significant, or the mind that sees? All our experiences are in the mind and mind alone. Mind is within the body, it is not a part of the body, it is associated with the body because the body doesn’t have the capacity which the mind has. It is very rigid, solid, inert and very much small in size. But we are experiencing far greater things with the mind within it.
So the mind is bigger than whatever it sees. The mind is greater than whatever it experiences. If you are experiencing the sea, you must be greater than that. That is why you are able to look at the sky and experience a higher dimension. This mind produces a number of thoughts, emotions, so many responses and reactions, memory, knowledge, doubt, many, many things. But all of them are mental products, products which the mind creates. When we make products with the earth, they will be earthy, earthy. When we pour water into different vessels, all the different forms and shapes of water are still watery. In the same manner, whatever the mind produces; let it be a thought, let it be an emotion, let it be a memory, a doubt, an enquiry, a finding, a knowledge, all these are products of the mind. All these products are mental and mental alone. As the ocean is not in any way affected by the waves, bubbles, lather and foam it produces, all these things produced by the mind do not the least affect the mind. Once you understand this truth, my dear children, tell me very clearly where is the trouble for you and what is it that you are complaining?
We get only two experiences and reactions - pleasant and unpleasant, happiness and unhappiness. Both are equally mind’s products. Being so, they are assimilable to the mind, they cannot affect or dethrone the mind. If anyone starts thinking in this manner, you will find he becomes stable. He becomes poised. He starts feeling ‘I am full, I am full. I am full. I am full. Nothing in this world outside can give a plus to me. No event or episode in life can be a minus to me. My mind remains M-I-N-D. I may weep, I may sob, I may laugh, I may run, I may sit, I may sleep, I may dream, I may be wakeful. None of these things takes away from the mind its potential, its character and its possibility.’ It was this subject that I was talking yesterday. I was giving a summary of the statement.
I think all of you should start feeling, feeling the presence of the mind far more than the presence of the world outside. Think about the mind more, understand it more, probe into it more and know that it is all mind’s products, mind’s products, mind’s products. Thought is a product of the mind, response is a product of the mind, knowledge is a product of the mind, doubt is a product, enquiry, finding, similarly sleep is a product, dream is a product, wakefulness is a product and part of the wakefulness namely the world is also a product of the mind. You carry the entire world in you because of your mind. Not that the world carries you. Maybe the world carries your body but your mind carries the entire world including your body. Can you thus become spiritual and spiritual thinkers? Answer this question every day and reflect upon it.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.
