What is mind?

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Om Namah Sivaya ‘The mind is like milk. If you keep the mind in the world, which is like water, then the milk and water will get mixed. That is why people keep milk in a quiet place and let it set into curd, and then churn butter from it. Likewise, through spiritual discipline practised in 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.’ ------------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 Sivam assume the qualities of the body. The real experiencer of 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 (Brahman) 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 asubtle body. Karma of the individual determines the form or shape of the experience. The Sivam is the Absolute which 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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> Om Namah Sivaya     ‘The mind is like milk. If you keep the mind in the

world, which is like water, then the milk and water will get mixed. That is why

people keep milk in a quiet place and let it set into curd, and then churn

butter from it. Likewise, through spiritual discipline practised in 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 Sivam assume the qualities of the body.

> The real experiencer of 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 (Brahman) 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.

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> 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 asubtle body. Karma of the individual determines the form or shape of the

experience. The Sivam is the Absolute which 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.

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>              " Santam Sivam Advaitam "   Sivaya Namah

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