Integrating Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life: Discriminating Mind
- The mind can contemplate both the seer and the seen. But it cannot see or contemplate on both at the same time. When it is contemplating on a seen it is with the help of the intellect, the memories and the ego. But it has a different purpose, self-realisation, Purusha.
- Due to intellect, memory and ego, the mind is affected by innumerable desires. In the purification of desires, the mind will leave the intellect, memories and ego and become established in the discriminate-mind. The discriminating mind will clear the cloud of desire and focus the contemplation on Purusha.
- With a Discriminated mind, a sense of self-identity will disappear, with that all doubt and questions regarding soul-self is destroyed as one has direct experience of soul-self, Purusha. They start living in total trust.
- In that trust one who starts practising and bringing the realisation in the behaviour they establish in the discriminate-mind. With this a deep trust in self inside arises, the whole view changes. Then you are at home and there is no conflict. Trust is your inner growth, your consciousness at its peak.
- One who wakes up from the sleep and realises that it was a dream, then the identity with the dream is lost. In the same way one becomes established in the discriminating mind, all his identification with the intellect, memories and ego vanishes. In this state one is able to see the Absolute Reality, Himself in His pure form, who He is.
- Now one is ready for Kaivalya Samdhi. It means he is now beyond bondage of Karma, destiny, ego, memories, etc. Now focus is only liberation from Self and merging into Purusha. At this point one can clearly see the seed of desire which is so deep and not even reflecting in the behaviour as it is invisible by others and oneself. This is a time when one needs to be very alert and self-aware so that with an absolute discriminate mind can focus on burning the seeds of desire which is the ultimate obstacle to liberation from the self.
- Now one will rediscover one’s aloneness, which is one’s divinity and one’s very nature. In this aloneness one will disappear as an ego and personality and will find oneself as life itself, deathless and eternal. Aloneness is a deep fulfilment, not going out, tremendously content, happy, celebrating. Aloneness is beautiful. It has an elegance around it, a grace, a climate of tremendous satisfaction.
- One will be able to overcome everything but will be defeated by the guise of the seed of desire which cannot be reflected even in behaviour. It has to be dealt with in the same technique as the five miseries.
