Amma Anasuya Devi: August 6

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"Mind is supreme. It harbours the thinking process. But for the

thinking, mind hardly exists. In fact, mind is the core of all

existence. Without mind everything is nonexistent."

 

 

"But mind is intriguing. It is never understood completely. Reality

always appears to be beyond the perception of mind. Hence the mind

gets befuddled in several illusions."

 

 

"The causative factors for these illusions are ever so many. The

circumstances, the environs and the impulses constantly sway the

mind. Several imipressions are created on it and widely distorted

images are conjured up. The result, being the inevitable illusion.

Several deviations are at work. More often than not, the mind is

caught up in this mundane strife."

 

 

"Probing into the mind is obvious for realisation. To grasp the

truth, its basic impulses have to be diagnosed and the different

motives studied in isolation. Without such a discerning outlook, the

mind cannot proceed farther."

 

 

"Mind exists because of the body. When the body is limited and a

thinking process works within, it is called the mind. The same mind

when construed to transcend all borders and limitations, is

considered a soul or atman. The difference between the mind and the

atman being little, save that given by the physical limitations of

the human body.

 

 

"When confined to the limited human body, we term it the mind but

when the same is envisioned as the infinite transcending all over, we

call it the atman. Thus little difference exists between the mind

and the atman, but for that caused by the dimensions of space."

 

 

"Not all minds can rise to the level of the atman, the perception

rarely dawns in them. They get restricted to the human body racking

in the turmoil caused by the instincts and the impulses. They never

tend to over come. Simply the mind passes off with the human body and

is released into the infinite."

 

 

"Some minds are bewildered at the cosmic process. They begin to

wonder and think about reality. Once this thinking germinates,

gradually the mind falls into its course. Grace dictates this

course. It condescends to bestow the undertanding of truth on the

mind; when it does, overall unity is perceived. The realisation

occurs that what all exists is a manifestation of the cosmic process."

 

 

"With such realisation, the mind grasps the infinite. It perceives

the oneness underlying all creation. Diversity persists to the

physical vision. Duality is a tangible truth. Underlying unity is a

perception of the mind. Once the body is extinct, the mind merges

into the cosmic unity."

 

 

"Till then the interaction between the mind and its environs

persists. This reaction forms the core of all existence."

 

 

"In this exercise several methods are adapted, each to its liking,

for knowing the truth. These could be ranging from bhakti, gnana,

yoga and so on. Only some minds culminte in the ultimate truth

through the working of grace, irrespective of the exercise."

 

 

Amma Anasuya Devi

 

 

Blessings,

 

Kathy

 

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