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Think A Thought That Will Annihilate All Thoughts-

Why should we engage in self-enquiry?
-Behind everything that you do, isn’t it happiness that you seek? Every action
you perform is for this happiness. But that bliss is lost in the hurricane of
thoughts that cloud the radiance of the self. When you are in deep sleep, there
are no thoughts. There is only pure consciousness. To clear the cobwebs of
illusion, you have to go to the source of these thoughts. When you do rigorous
self-enquiry and see all the facets of the mind. And its colours, then the mind
weakens and finally disappears; it never truly existed. This mind is ego, the
false ‘I’. Enquiry is for the death of the mind. It is also called the “Contrast
mind”, which keeps coming between the seeker and the sought. The meaning of
God id Love and love can never be unhappy. What has observation or seeing
got to do with transformation.
- Lots with correct observation, the wrong automatically ends. You cannot get
angry, or Kill in awareness. You can only harm others when you lack
awareness. We can be selfish only when we are not aware; when we are unable
to feel the other person’s unhappiness’ If you start seeing yourself in every
situation, then soon you will be transformed. For the first time you will begin to
understand the mind.
How can the mind be thoughtless?
- Mind means thoughts. Being thoughtless means being in a no-mind state. To
quietan the mind, self-enquiry is the best method which is the means as well as
the end. When you ask, “Who am I?” This thought in the form of a question will
cut off other thoughts. After ending all other thoughts – this last thought of
“Who am I?” will also end. Then self-realizations take place. This will break the
concept of form, the concept of body. You are boundless and boundary- less.
Those who mediate generally do so by uttering a word, visualizing an image, or
repeating a mantra. But, these repetitions are not effective enough to enhance
your awareness about yourself. You cannot be in a hazy state when you ask the
question ‘who am I?’ This question pierces you like a sharp instrument and
drives you to your centre. With persistence you will gradually start recognizing
the deep silence, a stillness which your true self. Later the question itself
becames the answer. However advanced a meditator is, thoughts continue to
crowd the mind. We need a potent thought to annihilate these thoughts; a
thought that will annihilate all thoughts. You require steel to cut steel. An
antidote for poison is another poison. In the same way, let one thought
annihilate all other thoughts.
Why does the mind fall off on self-enquiry?
- Let us say that the mind is asking a question, “What will happen wheni die?”
At what moment, if you ask, “who is it that will die?” then the mind is forced to
go within. You find out for the first time that there is nothing that can be called
as the mind. Mind is just a bundle of thoughts. When thoughts sink into absolute
silence then the death of the mind happens.