Oh, To Be Liberated....= obstacle to overcome

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some words from Mother: (Awaken Children p 146-149)

 

"The mind is an outsider. He is a stranger in your real abode - the

Self. The mind, being a foreign element, creates an irritation which

itches. The itching is the desires of the mind. It is just like the

sensation you sometimes get to scratch an itching wound. As you

scratch the area, you find it soothing, and so you scratch it

repeatedly until the wound and the surrounding area become red and

infected. And with that, the pain of the wound increases.

 

The mind creates such an itch when it is full of desires and

emotions. So you keep on scratching, until finally, your whole life

becomes a big pus infected wound. All that pus needs to be squeezed

out of your wound; only then will the wound be healed. It is Amma's

duty to treat the wound and squeeze out the pus. That is how Amma

shows Her compassion towards you, but when She does, you call it

strange. But Amma isn't bothered by your reaction, for it is only

due to your lack of understanding. You would call Amma normal if She

just kept on soothing the wound and allowed you to continue to

scratch it. The choice is yours. If you want the wound only to be

soothed and not healed, it is all right with Mother, but you will

suffer later. "

 

.... Question: "Amma, You compared the mind to a foreign element. Why

is it foreign? Could You please elaborate on this point?"

 

"Mother: "Whenever a foreign element enters into our lives we

ruthlessly try to reject it. For example, if there is a dust

particle in our eye we want to remove it. Why? Because it is not

part of the eye. It doesn't belong to us. What about an illness?

Even if it is a headache or stomach ache we will want to get rid of

it, because it is foreign to us. The body wants to reject it, for it

is not part of our nature. Similarly, the mind is a foreign element,

a complete stranger, that we need to get rid of.

 

Everybody wants to be happy and peaceful. There are no arguments

about that. But, to attain real peace and happiness one has to go

beyond the mind and its desires. It is the mind that causes the

sorrow and the itching.

The mind is like a wound. Every time a desire crops up you feel

an 'itching' sensation of the wound of the mind. Fulfilling the

desire is like scratching the wound, and your itch is relieved for

the moment.

But you are completely unaware of the truth that by yielding to your

desires, you are making the wound of the mind deeper. It becomes

more and more infected. But the mind will constantly continue to

demand and desire, and you will continue to fulfill those desires.

It is like a continuous scratching of the wound of the mind, which

only makes the wound increasingly larger.

 

If you vigorously keep rubbing the dust in your eyes instead of

removing it, your pain and irritation will only increase. Remove the

dust and you will be all right. Similarly, the mind is like dust in

the eye, a foreign element. Learn to get rid of the mind. Only then

will you achieve perfection and happiness.

 

To be happy and peaceful is the goal of all human beings. But they

choose the wrong ways to attain it. Almost everyone knows that they

are not experiencing real peace and happiness. They are lacking

something in their lives and they try to fill that gap by acquiring

and possessing. But the real problem exists within your mind.

 

The mind is a stranger that needs to be eliminated. But who can do

this? Only a complete stranger to your mind can eliminate it. The

Master is that Stranger. The Mahatma, the Perfect Master, is perhaps

incomprehensible to your mind, but he knows your strange mind and

its strange ways perfectly well. He is the Master of all minds, but

to your mind he is a very strange phenomenon indeed.

 

As long as your mind exists, you will judge the Mahatma's ways as

strange, but when you slowly start to control the mind and thoughts,

you will realize that there was nothing strange at all about the

Mahatma, it was only your mind that was strange. "

 

~ Awaken Children p 146-149

 

Ammachi, sanatani urban <sanatani wrote:

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> Liberation is but one giant step on the Soul's eternal path of

Divine Love.

> Earthly vasanas have been slayed, and Ego sheds it's grand

facade.

> Mind's churnings have come to rest, laying on the Mother's

Breast.

> Both the Great Death, and the Divine Birth; poised in the

stillness between breaths.

> A seed, having awoken to the awareness of it's True Nature,

dropped on fertile soil in early spring.

> A ripe, lucious mango dropping from the tree at the Lotus feet

of the Master, offering itself in pure joy to the master's lips; all

remnants of resistance gone, knowing Consumption is it's Divine

Destiny.

> A Delicate, Luminous Place, reached only by devotion, where Mind

and Heart merge into the Sweetly Humming Union from which the cosmos

emerged; where Lover and Beloved are Complete.

> A Royal Path of Endless Bliss where maya's shroud falls to the

ground, and the multitude are but a Brilliant Efflugence of The One.

> Jai Ma!

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