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Mind Pictures

The Mind and How it Deludes

Realizations

Conceptions of the nature of consciousness as opposed to the Conscious for example - the difference between Chit\Consciousness-in-itself (Conscious consciousness beyond objective reality) and Chitta\Mind (Consciousness of objective reality). 

Chitta: Is termed as the mind-stuff or mental substance. This of course is what western cultures call consciousness but it is not The consciousness which is conscious as the  consciousness that is conscious of itself without its object. In Sanskrit that consciousness is referred to as Chit.

In the West however, Chit translates as what we call MIND this is not the same as what is referred to in Sanskrit as Chit; Mind is really only the closest word we have to what chit really is.

In the Sanskrit Chit is not the mind or MIND nor is it Pure Mind. It is awareness beyond the need for any objective reality. To be conscious as that is to be in what is called the Turiya state.

For example: In the west a man might say: "This is in my mind" referring to a visualization or thought construct. About that thing he might say "I am conscious of it"... He thinks it is his consciousness.

He splits his mind into two by referring to his mind as a thing that is distinct from the consciousness. Yet he thinks he owns his mind also. So that even when he removes the thought that he is what he perceives he is, and then his thoughts also, he still exists as an invisible thing he calls his Mind or Soul. This invisible being is what he calls himself regardless of consciousness because he says consciousness exists in MIND .. he says this is my mind This is my soul, this is my consciousness. This is the Jiva stripped of his clothing of reality.

Jiva is the mental being. It is The "I". - often called the subtle I'.

Chit does not mean that; Chit means, all this is actual consciousness, including this awareness which exists beyond what mind contains as well as Jiva. It could be called conscious but due to the fact of there being no differentiation in it it cannot be called by a name such as consciousness... because the "ness" suffix to the word consciousness implies to the mind that consciousness is an attribute of something or someone... for example a piece of steel has hardness, it is not hardness - water has wetness but it is not wetness and so on.

The one who is conscious is not consciousness he is conscious, so the western mind can avoid the realization by saying i am not consciousness, I am Mind which is conscious as Me.

Mind is thought to appear as the Chitta or mind-stuff in the Jiva or Soul by the western man but this is incorrect.

While the mind-stuff is in fact Chitta and does appear, the idea that it appears in Jiva (IN ME) is erroneous because Jiva, too is a conception or thought; it is a definition, a division in the absolute. The mind-stuff or thought of Chitta, or I-ness whether of the Soul or Jiva, who might have mind or consciousness as a possession is the bane of we in the west. So then with the appearance of Jiva/soul, Mind or Chitta exists.

On the other hand Chit-Consciousness-in-itself is something that is not defined as an object, it is defined as that out of which all things are made and in which all things including Jiva and souls, appear. The correct translation of Chitta therefore, is not mind-stuff (which implies minds or a MIND no matter how vast), but the substance of the consciousness of the entire consciousness itself.

All these beings and things being made of consciousness, are mere creations made of that or alternate self-definitions; which means they are products of the ego seeking to exist as an alternate Self. For example:
all beings whether real or imagined are simply examples of the multiplicity of the consciousness's knowledge or manifestation of knowledge about itself.
A further example is they are imaginary beings which have imaginary attributes of varying degrees of moral integrity - or degrees of good and evil - hate and love etc.

The existence - the very being of these individual ones who may be heard by one who is clairaudient is merely a creation of mind. Each is created as a focal point or repository or archetype/owner of the attribute each represents - they come into being as a result of refusing to involve/include these/them as attributes of God/consciousness.

We create them ourselves by rejecting the negative side of being, when previously they were non-separate from and therefore non-existent or evident part of gods nature of omnipresent consciousness-knowledge.

By rejecting them we empower them, we give them a place of residence. This splits the mind, so that it comes to believe it is hearing other creatures/beings which are created by the decision to reject attributes of god, such as those emotions and concepts which bring about death, destruction, discord and darkness, evil and hate and so forth.

On the other hand, if we do not discard those attributes they will not take on an existence or life of their own. for example God/love or the Consciousness etc. has all the attributes and knowledge that exist both good and evil. Hate is love because its result shows what love is not.. Someone who hates lives a love-hater existence his very existence shows him the result of hating love because his existence is miserable so he cannot escape from love. Evil is good for the same reason. Darkness shows what light is and visa-vie in all cases of opposites though they appear to be diametrically opposed or paradoxical.

Of course this leads to the point where God, by existing exists (by existing he creates existence) or because of the existence of Cosmos it exists in Void. but the miracle is that once the Cosmos is removed by resolution of it into sameness with the void, the absolute is or rather comes to know that even though it-itself is formless it-itself is conscious beyond Time, and because of that physical space or void also. It comes to know that it-itself is conscious as that infinity into which the space that previously contained the eternal cosmos or dharma has dissolved.

The fact that beings who exist or the voices which seem to issue from those beings have attributes of space between the atoms out of which they are made, and also spaces existing as silences in the words and sentences which they might speak shows that both their actual existence as well as what they may or may not say is dependant upon the space existing also. This simply means that space is universal.

Now then each of us can notice that thoughts which are reactions to stimuli or events arise in an emptiness which we think of as the mind or we can use the Will to stimulate that emptiness by imagining a pink elephant for example.

There being no parallel in reality to a pink elephant we must compose it out of 2 components which are unrelated and the pink elephant appears out of no where in the inner space as if by magic. This means the Will is potent in-itself to effect the consciousness. It means that that which we think of as mind is not mind at all, it is a division in space - which is ridiculous because space itself cannot be divided by anything except if someone places objects in it.

Yet even if objects are put in it, we in our modern world know that the matter out of which all existent things are made, is born in the advent of the photon of light - which of course is the consciousness.

Yet the Will can effect the consciousness by imaging such things as a herd of pink elephants. or covering a physical light with something. But no matter what we do we cannot completely hide the light because some rays pass right thru the object beyond the perception of the human eye.

Light is effected but unstoppable. Thus it shines in the void as consciousness, but Will is superior to it because The Will is its source

So that place into which the Will projects the Pink elephant is not mind at all.  The mind comes into being as the space in which the thing exists (or the pink elephant exists). But in the absence of thingness the mind does not exist at all.

Now then these voices or beings - real or imagined in fact all beings - along with the entire cosmos itself have the same quality existing as light in space; they are thus the consciousness only - but that in which these exist, spaces as opposed to "SPACE ITSELF" are not separate from absolute space due to the fact of the spaces in atoms, thus spaces though they appear to exist do not; and are included in absolute space because light or consciousness sees no barriers.

Now then then if a voice, perception, being or object or even the cosmos appears, it appears in space. Its existence requires the pre-condition or pre-existence of somewhere in which it can manifest such that the awareness or the witness of thought does not arise because of the thoughts or objects having appeared, but is inherent in Will; else a Pink elephant could not be imagined, nor could a hen with teeth, not to mention the simile of a child of a barren woman and other anecdotes.

So then that which you imagine are voices of other beings, regardless if it is or is not imagination or illusion or maya etc. is merely another aspect of the consciousness that you are rejecting in order to remain separate. They are in effect your Ego or Mind/Jiva/Soul they are the people you have been in previous lives, you must forgive them and move on by showing them what love is, you can only do this by accepting who they are. Reveal to the previous you what you have discovered so far. Teach them.

However if we were to remove the ascription of personality from those supposed beings you would notice they are aspects  of Kali or Darkness, or death of the negative aspect of the positive... you would notice that all the voices issue from the black god ... this is the super-being of which Sri-Aurobindo speaks. 

It is Yama or the black void in which the cosmos exists. if however you merge the inner space with the outer space (remember all is nothing at all but space and light) then you will get light shining in void/space. Siva/Shakti, Bhairava/Bhairavi good/evil light/dark Gu/Ru.

Now then in this understanding you will notice all is space - all is one space... Ask there who am i from this awareness, as is also described in the Trika texts and the realization of Turiya will result. You will become Bhairava because of the transcendence of duality .. Om.

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