Page 259 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
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Mind can be known by Mind & Divinity can be known by Divinity
normative correlations, influenced by the environment, influenced by the majority view and is very fallible. It more often ends up on the wrong side of reality. It is fond of imagining, constructing, deducing, inducting, speculating, dreaming all of which need not be in tune with reality. It is subject to the powerful influence of the ego, a shadowy and illusive structure which keeps the sense of separation alive. Whereas feeling if allowed to develop tends to swell or enlarge or grow and starts transcending the narrow confines.
All of us have the lucky privilege of feeling the silent void during our PAM sessions where we are not aware of the time or the body. That is the Sun which is always there in the heart but whose radiation is prevented by the over cloudiness of the mind and its impurities. Unless the entire thought content is purged out we can never feel the full luster of the Sun. Sir in one of his articles has mentioned that he has wasted 10 years of his sadhana in trying to know intellectually. It is a lesson which is painfully long. Why not we with wisdom simply follow what Master says rather than trying to reinvent the wheel (about the usefulness of intellect in spiritual science) which finally proves to be useless after all.
I will quote another passage from path to perfection which shows how much our mind serves as an obstacle to our spiritual growth. “People have entirely wrong notions about courage. People consider and call the incitement of mind ‘courage.’ If the mind is eliminated to such an extent that one begins to feel depression in oneself and then this prayer or courage is endowed with the function of a command or order. You would have noticed that somebody suffers great harm at the hands of somebody else, and having no courage or heart to take revenge, feels perfectly poor and helpless and sits quietly in the state of helplessness. With such condition of
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