Birthday Puja: Mind is a Myth New Delhi (India)
Puja of the 73rd Birthday, “Mind is a myth”. Delhi (India), 21 March 1996. Translation from Hindi You are celebrating My birthday with so much love, reverence and respect. Seeing this I think what have I done that you are showing so much love. Today I am going to tell you a very unusual fact, that this notion within us which we call as mind, is a myth. The myth being, that when we are born, there is no such thing as mind within us. As we gradually start performing actions, the outward reactions are of two kinds. Either something becomes an impression or experience; or a consciousness of being the doer (ego) gets awakened within us. Then from those come the tendencies which accumulate inside us like bubbles of thoughts, which create an artificial or bogus institution, which is so limited that they cannot comprehend the beauty, glory and expanse of reality. All these things are created by us, and then we become slaves of it. For example we created the watch, and now we have become complete slaves of it. In Sahaja Yoga you become Kaal-ateet, means you go beyond time. Times moves along with you. You do not run after time. Now people have started making computers, and they have become enslaved by it. And in that enslavement, they have become so obsessed with it, that they are not able to realise that they are completely in its clutches. Which is controlling them. They are completely dependent Read More …