"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

Thursday, March 10, 2016

No Mind = Final Liberation


Sage Vasishtha

VASISHTHA continued:

On the other hand, if the mind perishes, everything perishes, and there is final liberation. The one who wails, 'I am dying, I perish', is foolishly clinging to a false concept. He goes on experiencing the world-illusion in some other place or time. The jiva that dwells in mental conditioning abandons one body and goes looking for nother, even as a monkey abandons one tree in a forest and jumps on to another. Thereafter, in a moment, it abandons that too, and seeks yet another, in another part of space and in another period of time. Just as a nanny takes the baby from one place to another in order to distract it, this mental conditioning (psychological habit or tendency) takes the jiva here and there. Thus tied to the rope of mental conditioning, the jiva goes through repeated birth in various species, enduing interminable suffering.

(As the sage Vasishtha said this, another day came to an end and the assembly dispersed for their evening prayers.)

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