Re: Mind - Everything?
Friends,
Due to Maya, when the sthula, sukshma, karana [gross, subtle and causal] bodies are taken for Self, the product is jiva.
Jiva is in the identification with the "seen" ... in waking state i see a waking body and carve out a jiva who is that waking body with its thoughts etc. This is the waking jiva!
In dream we see a dream body and carve out a jiva with the dream body and dream world. This is the dream jiva.
In deep sleep we see nothing and so we carve out an ignorant "one" - the jiva.
Ignorance is identification with this jiva. One who sees jiva jagat ishvara as mithya is liberated. He sees and yet does not identify. One need not "Raise" above mind .... one just has to recognize that one is not the mind and this one has to recognize at the level of mind alone ! since body is jada and does not need liberation. Self or Awareness being ever free does not need liberation. Thus, only Mind needs a correction ... and once that is done one leads a liberated life.
One continues to see jiva, jagat and ishvara but knows all three as mithya. Even as one sees the earth as flat but is never confused ! One knows clearly that its only apparent, a mithya.
Love!
Silence
Come up, O Lions, and shake off the delusion that you are a sheep
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