By Sadhguru
The more people think, the less joyful they become. It should not be so.
Your mind is society’s garbage bin. Anybody who walks by stuffs something into your head. You really have no choice.
Whatever comes in touch with any of your sense organs, whether it is a vision or a sound or a sensation or a taste or a smell, gets stored in the mind. So what you call mind, the accumulative part of the mind, is exposed to social, religious and cultural situations.
We could explain the mind as three parts. The discriminatory dimension of the mind, which is called the intellect; the accumulative part that gathers information; and awareness, which is called ‘pragna’.
The way in which you think, feel and understand life is a result of the kind of garbage you have gathered in your head. Some of you have social garbage, religious garbage, spiritual garbage, it doesn’t matter. Everything has come from outside. It’s of survival significance only. It is not of any life significance. Your ability to recycle the garbage is your intellect. Your survival on this planet is possible only because you are able to discriminate.
The more intellectual you become the more you start splitting everything around you and it doesn’t know where to stop. It doesn’t allow you to be with anything totally. So intellect is a wonderful instrument for survival. At the same time, when it comes to experiencing the oneness of life, intellect is a terrible barrier. Your life will be beautiful only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go.
All impressions that have entered your mind have entered through the five sense organs and sense organs can perceive anything only in comparison. If you had not seen darkness you wouldn’t know what is light.
Sense perception does not give an impression of reality; it is always gives a distorted impression of reality because sense organs experience everything only in comparison. And where there is comparison there is always duality. You can only perceive in parts. So your perception is all in bits and pieces and these will never make a whole.
Now if you wipe it with awareness this intellect can cut through what is true and what is not true. When your intellect becomes razor sharp, so that nothing sticks to it, it doesn’t get attached to anything, it is not identified with anything, it makes you see everything the way it is. It is not influenced by your accumulation, by your identifications, by your emotions.
The whole process of yoga and meditation is just this, if you sit here your mind is here, you are here. Once you have a clear space between you and your mind it is a completely different dimension of existence.
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