Page 150 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 7
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“Some are deluded by their own thinking and some are illumined by Divine Grace”
of mind and sense is an error for it cannot be who we are if we abide without that activity.
Identification with thought, form, and sense is the ego, and that is the source of unhappiness. We do not need years of practice to come to this conclusion. We are never distant from our true nature and we do not need a microscope to inquire into silence. We need to simply do nothing and observe what remains in a moment of no thought.
The experiment of diving deep into meditation, into no-mind, removes the obstacles to the realisation of our true nature. This may be likened to the way of the scientists who get closer to understanding by ruling out possible causes. In a laboratory, this may be a long and fruitless process, but in a moment of no-mind, all that is false disappears for it is the mind only that creates what is false. What is unreal can only be a construct of thought for it has no other existence.
This is neither religion nor philosophy but pure and simple Imperience or spirituality. If we dive
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