"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

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Mysterious Power of the Mind

Mental and physical illness, as well as curses and "evil eye" do not touch the mind that is devoted to the Self, anymore than a lotus flower can split a rock into two by falling on it. Hence, one should endeavor with the mind to make the mind take to the pure path, with the self make the self tread the path of purity. Whatever the mind contemplates, that instantly materializes. By intense contemplation, it can bring about radical change within itself. To heal itself of its defective vision in which illusions were perceived as real. What the mind does, that it experiences as truth. It makes the man who is sitting in moonlight experience burning heat; and it makes one who is burning in sun experience cool comfort!

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad