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CHAPTER 5. THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS SELF KNOWLEDGE
THE SOUL IS MIND,
This sutra is very significant. Waves are seen in the ocean, but the wave also is the ocean. However
superficial, however agitated the wave is, it still contains the infinite ocean within itself. The most
contemptible, the most insignificant thing, also contains the absolute within itself. God is hidden in
each and every particle
No matter how mad you are, no matter how distressed your mind is, no matter how many
disturbances and diseases surround you – still you are God. It makes no difference that you are
asleep, unconscious. In your unconsciousness it is God who lies unconscious within you. It does
not matter that you have committed, or thought of committing, many sins. It is God who thinks within
you. It is through God that the sins are committed.
THE SOUL IS MIND means your mind is a form of your soul. It is important, very important, that you
understand this; otherwise, you will begin to fight with your mind, and whoever fights with his mind
ends up losing. The path of victory lies in the acceptance of the mind – that it too is God. Caught in
the state of struggle – useless struggle – and duality, know that the wave is also the ocean. Once
this is seen and accepted, the distortions and diseases of the mind begin to fade away.
The day you begin to understand that the absolute lies hidden even within the most insignificant,
you will no longer call it insignificant. It is you who has drawn its boundaries. The most minute grain
has no boundaries; it is part of the boundless. The boundaries are created by your eyes. The day
you begin to see the limitless in the limited, all limits and boundaries disappear.
The most profound experience in a person’s life happens when he begins to see God in his own
mind, when he begins to see Him in his own evil deeds, when he sees His footprints – and only His
footprints – in all his wanderings. Then his wandering stops. To wander shows that you consider
yourself separate and apart from God. In this separateness lies your disease; this separateness is
the root cause of everything that disturbs your natural harmony. That you consider yourself aloof
and separate – just that is your ego!
Strange as it may seem, as far as the ego is concerned, there is no difference between a good man
and a bad man. The sinner is as filled with ego as the so-called man of virtue. Their actions may be
different but the feeling is the same: both consider themselves apart from the rest. One considers
himself evil, the other good. You stand apart from the rest as long as you consider yourself to be
one or the other. You are not different from others. It is your own belief that has squeezed you into
this cramped position. Your own concepts bind you; you are imprisoned within the cage of your own
beliefs. Otherwise, there are no walls anywhere; all around you are open skies. No one is stopping
you. No one obstructs your way.
How can your ego melt? THE SOUL IS MIND means: you are not you! You are God! You are
part and parcel of the whole. You are not a small wave; you are the whole ocean. If you encounter
and experience this vastness – the whole – it will cause your ego to fall. And where there is no
ego, there cannot be. any evil! There is only one evil, only one sin: ”I am separate!” This feeling of
separateness is also found in those whom we care our sadhus.
It is said that once a yogi died. He reached heaven and knocked at the door, which was opened.
The guard said, ”Welcome! Please come in. The hatha yogi stopped there, shocked. He said,
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