No-Mind, Only Consciousness

Sage Vasishtha

UDDALAKA continued to reflect thus:

This universe has surely come into being without any valid cause for its creation: how can one accept the truth of a creation which had no cause or purpose? From time immemorial, all these bodies have been inherent in the cosmic being, even as pots are forever inherent in clay, Even as ocean exists in the past, present and future as ocean ans the same water temporarily assumes the form of a wave, all this is forever the cosmic being at all times. It is only a fool that entertains a feeling'this I am' in relation to that temporary appearance known as the body etc. In the same way, the mind was consciousness in the beginning and it will be consciousness again in the end, why is it then called differently in the middle (now)?

All these phenomena seem to have a transient reality, like dream-experiences visions in a state of delirium, hallucinations of a drunkard, optical illusions, psychosomatic illness, emotional disturbances and psychotic states. But, O mind, you have conferred a permanent reality upon them, even as a lover suffers from the very imagination of his beloved's separation. But, of course, this is not your fault; it is my fault that I cling to the notion that you, my mind, is a real entity. When I realize that all these phenomena are illusory appearances, then you will become non-mind and all the memories of sense-experiences etc., will come to an end. When consciousnesses realizes itself and abandons its self-limiting mental conditioning, the mind is freed from its coloring and rests in its essential nature, which is consciousness. When the mind, gathering to itself all its limbs, offers itself into the fire of pure consciousness it is purified and attains to immortality.