"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Thoughts are the bondage

Sage Vasishtha

There is neither bondage nor liberation in truth. The infinite thinks 'I am the body' and this thought acts as bondage. When one realizes that all these are false, he shines as the infinite consciousness. When the mind has been purified by pure thoughts and actions, it takes on the nature of the infinite, even as a pure cloth takes on a color easily.

When in a pure mind there arise concepts and notions of a body, scriptural knowledge and dispassion etc, the world-appearance comes into being. When the mind gets involved in the external objective universe it moves away from the self. But, when the mind gives up the subject-object relationship it has with the world, it is instantly absorbed in the infinite.

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