IS IT NOT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE MIND TO ATTAIN GOD?

Dear All,

We are now dealing with MIND and its functions in the blog posts.

When the blog was made open to all, it is clear that  the blog is for the world at large in the long run and  the need for the author to know who is accessing the blog is not there anymore, as the initial membership by invitation rule has been withdrawn.

However, Love flows incessantly for all of you and that is why this post.

Let us start with this Swami’s quote on Mind:

"Consider a cloth which has been made into a handkerchief. Its basis is cotton, which does not have any specific form. It may be considered as pure and unlimited. From this cotton, have come the threads. By joining the threads together a cloth has emerged. In the same way, from the pure and unlimited Atma the I-thought has emerged. From this, in turn, has come the mind. Therefore, your mind and the “I” have both originated from the pure, unlimited Divinity, the One Reality which is your true Self”. (Source -Peter trucker’s compilation of Swami’s sayings on mind and SELF - WWW.ATMAPRESS.COM).

So, Swami says Mind and SELF (our divinity) have originated from the same infinite/absolute divinity which you may call as God or Pure consciousness.

But, lo and behold, our mind does not seem to be all that divine as of now.

IS IT NOT THEN NECESSARY TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS MIND WHICH SWAMI SAYS, HAS ORIGINATED FROM GOD, BUT HAS GOT A LITTLE IMPURE AS WE PASSED THROUGH THE CYCLE OF BIRTH-DEATH-RE BIRTH??

Dear Ones, 

The present theme MANAS BUDDHI CHITA AHAMKARA is all about knowing this mind, which has to be ultimately exercised to reach God and merge with God.

Around 12 posts in this theme is already through and many more to follow.

We do not need to be scared about the above Sanskrit terms and instead, we just need to know the following initially, to get into the posts on the theme MIND.

·  We believe in the above Swami’s words that our MIND must have been initially pure and divine, as it has originated from divinity.

·  So, MIND by itself, left alone to itself, without influence of any other factor, has to be necessarily divine. Swami Says so and we believe each word off our SAI.

·  It follows then that there must be few other factors that influence our mind which then either sustains its divine nature or loses its divine nature.

·  The factors that influence our MIND, which are dealt in detail in the posts are:-

·   BUDDHI - Discriminative, Intellect.

·  AHAMKARA - the EGO which can be either pure ego (Aham, the pure I) or impure ego, (Ahamkara, the lower i). This Ahamkara again has 5 coloring which are dealt in detail.

·  CHITTA - mind Lake which stores various impressions of the past.

·  Now, these three factors can either singly influence our mind or they can join hands to influence our thoughts which go on to push our mind to act in a particular manner.

· With each action done, except for actions of realized masters or spiritual seekers at a very advanced stage, each actions of human beings result in fresh impressions getting stored in their mind lake which can also be easily referred to as MEMORY BANK.

So, the entire study of mind through the posts under the current theme in the blog is to understand the four functions of mind- MANAS, BUDDHI, CHITTA, AHAMKARA so that, with proper use of these 4 functions, with proper coordination of these 4 functions, with proper knowledge of DOs and Don’t DOs of these 4 functions of mind, we are able to restore, retrieve, re-trace the DIVINE NATURE OF OUR MIND and USE IT/ EXERCISE IT TO REACH OUR LORD, NEVER TO RETURN.

With Love, as Always,

Sathya