Mental Activity Hides Your Real Nature
If we can consciously overcome
the activity of the mind and control it, master it and totally subdue it then
we can rest in a permanent state where all experiences are overcome. They are negated,
and in that state of a conscious cessation of mental processes, you can attain
to a state of perfect peace, perfect rest, perfect silence. Thus when the state
of absolute silence of the mind is attained, whatever is beyond the mind
becomes manifest. It now prevails in a field of your experience.
Consciousness becomes characterized
not by the experience of mental state, but consciousness becomes characterized
by the experience of the Self, your true Self. For, there is nothing to
obstruct. There is nothing to bar it or prevent it. When consciousness is characterized
by mental activity, this mental activity becomes, as it were, like a cloud in
front of the sun. Even though the Sun is there, when the cloud comes in front
of it, it cannot be seen.
You can see the pebbles at the
bottom of an absolutely placid lake very clearly. But, if the surface is
agitated, if it is made into ripples, then you cannot perceive clearly the bed
of the lake. In the same way, the inner basis of your being is your Self. That
is the Reality. That is of the nature of peace and joy. But, if it is covered
or if it is in a state of constant agitation, activity, the substratum cannot
be seen clearly. It appears to be agitated also, because of its association
with the covering medium, the mind.
Mind is the agitator of the
surface of the lake of human consciousness and
this consciousness is a part of the Divine Consciousness and it is of the nature
of Bliss.
Excerpts from:
Mental Activity Hides Your Real Nature – Lectures on Raja Yoga by Swami Chidananda
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