What is mind or 'I' ?
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Mind is an experience.
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Mind is duality.
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Mind is in the form of feeling
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Mind is form
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Mind is matter.
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Mind is time
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Mind space
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Mind is ignorance.
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Mind is illusion
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Mind is waking
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Mind is dream.
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Mind is myth.
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Mind is mirage.
Throughout
all ages aspirant in pursuit of truth have struggled during their life time,
understanding the untold hardships in their effort to extricate themselves from
the maze of actions and to realize the eternal existence by overcoming the mind
or duality.
They
fail in attempt because more they struggle with their physical self[ego] , the
firmer the ego becomes gripped by duality through actions intensified with
austerities and penance by speculation ,pilgrimages, meditation contemplation,
ascetic utterances, silent contemplation, by intense activity and inactivity,
by silence and verbosity, by japa and taps and all type yoga and physical based
practices.
Emancipation
from the grip of intoxication of duality and freedom from labyrinths of actions
is made possible for all attained by a few, through perfect understanding. Only
through proper understanding the aspirant is able to shed his clock of duality
and realize the fact that the self is mere witness of the experience of duality
which is mere mirage. The self is formless nondual eternal existence.
Aspirant
has to become aware of the fact that only through inquiry, analysis and
reasoning one will be able to have deeper understanding and realize the reality
of the existence. Deeper understanding makes the aspirant to have a firm
conviction that the self [consciousness or Atman or spirit] is the only reality all else is
illusion. The whole experience of diversity, which is present ads ‘I’ is a
dream witnessed by the self that is sprit.
