What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

Naming a bangle, as a bangle, starts a whole new way of dealing with it.

Its value, its appearance, a desire to own it, comparisons with other bangles, etc., start.

A whole new world of duality opens up, all as a result of the mind.

Mind creates such a world of names and forms, gets blinded by it, and then believes it fully, refusing everything else.

Without calling it a bangle, it would have been just gold.

And that is a bangle alone.

Same thing we have done with everything, including every individual.

Negating this world of forms may not be possible living in the Sansar, but realizing it within us is possible, and that is samadhi.

It leads us into the world of formlessness, which exists beyond the mind.

Without the mind, everything becomes consciousness.

The mind looks for utility in an object.

When there are no desires, there is no mind.

No mind sees Godliness in all forms.