What is mind?

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solitude, churn the butter of KNOWLEDGE and DEVOTION from the milk of the mind.

Then the butter can easily be kept in the water of the world. It will not get

mixed with the world. The mind will float detached on the water of the world.’

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------------Sri Ramakrishna Sivam (The all pervading Formless, spaceless,

timeless, Supreme Being - I), the Self-luminous, is distinct from the Gross

(physical) and Subtle [constituents eight; Five senses, Buddhi(Intellect),

Mana(mind) and Ahankara (Egoity)] bodies, just as fire which enters the fuel

assumes the attributes of the fuel, so also does the distinct

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anything, in an individualistic way, is neither the Sivam nor the physical

body. It is the mind that is the centre of individuality, that individualizes

and imprisons a ray of the Sivam in what is called the individual soul(Jiva).

The mind is a special, limited particularization of the Siva-Consciousness,

which is unlimited and never ceases to be all-pervading (Supreme-Consciousness/

Pure Consciousness/ SAT-CHIT-ANANDA). The mind is the form of the collective

totality of desires, and hence, it is inert and powerless. But it appears to be

conscious and powerful as the Inner Self (Sivam) is reflected through it, in the

form of a reflection, very much limited by its own constitution. Hence it will

be clear that the individuality of a person is as much real or unreal as a

reflection of a real object.This mind, as embodied in the subtle body, that

undergoes the pleasure of heaven or the pains of hell, or for that matter, any

experience through a gross or a subtle body. Karma of the individual determines

the form or shape of the

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is not really affected by any experience of the mind. The mind is mortal, while

the Sivam is immortal. It the highest condition

called Siva Mukti, there is no duality. No one can see anything. One merges

himself in Sivam or the Highest. If you wish to see, you will have to come to

the stage immediately below the Highest. Lord Siva (with Form)is inferior to

the real Sivam which is Formless. "Santam Sivam

Advaitam" Sivaya Namah

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