From Mind to Mindlessness

From Mind to Mindlessness

Meditation is all about traveling from your material “self” at one end to your spiritual “self” at the other, which really has no end.

The mind creates the material self, and mind means knowing.

This self is illusory because it is based on knowledge obtained via our senses from the outside world; it is very superficial.

This makes you live a limited life, all based on knowing objects, people, and situations, that’s all, and none of that without effort.

You depend on them to maintain your material self (and we don’t even realize it).

As you go deep within and begin receding from the mind, you lose your material self.

This receding takes courage, but it has to be done on a spiritual path.

In exchange, you get to realize your spiritual self.

That’s when you realize that the material self was effortful like a donkey walking with a heavy load.

The spiritual self is not based on knowing, but on being.

The spiritual self is a direct perception; no senses are required; it is complete in itself.

The spiritual self is effortless.

Soon, you start realizing that the material self, identification, was a load, and the spiritual self is the freedom from the old identity.

This brings you to a new state that you were never familiar with.

It is a pluripotent state, a state full of infinite hidden potentialities.

(By losing one identity, you get infinite potential identities.)

Compare it with an uncarved wooden log.

From the same uncarved log, one can carve a statue of Raam, Raavan, or Sita, as they all were hidden in it, as potentialities.

The spiritual self is like that wooden log, with infinite possibilities.

You can be anything you want to be; wanting not in the sense of desire, but rather an inclination.

You incline to be “blue”, you be “blue”.

You incline to be a butterfly, so you be a butterfly.

You incline to spread unconditional love, so you do.

And all that in joy.

You have freedom.

These are the joys of spiritual self, the real wealth of life worth pursuing.

रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययो: |
प्रणव: सर्ववेदेषु शब्द: खे पौरुषं नृषु || 8||

raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śhaśhi-sūryayoḥ
praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu śhabdaḥ khe pauruṣhaṁ nṛiṣhu

BG 7.8: I am the taste in water, O son of Kunti, and the radiance of the sun and the moon. I am the sacred syllable Om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether, and the ability in humans.

He is the essence of everything and everyone around us, including us.

All are manifestations of His potentialities, which are infinite (and that’s why the Sansar is infinite).

The whole universe of forms came about from Him (the pluripotent shunya state), and He is in all of them, as their energy source.

“Everything is in Me, and I in everything.”

– Krishna.