Mind versus consciousness

Mind is the unreal you.
Consciousness is the Real You.

Mind lives in past and future.
Consciousness lives in present.

Mind thinks, chatters constantly.
Consciousness watches, feels, lives.

The source of mind is knowledge and memory.
The seed of consciousness is silence and existence.

Mind is in the absence of consciousness.
Consciousness is in the absence of mind.
You are when consciousness is.
You are not when mind is.

You are temporarily dead, when mind is.
You live when consciousness is.

Mind creates doubts, questions, worries and stress.
Consciousness clears all these.
And rejoices at truth.

Mind wanders through what you know.
Within those borders.
Consciousness transcends all.
Lives in infinite space.

You, with everlasting consciousness
Is the awakened one.
You, with chattering mind
Is the Dead One.

How to do Deathless Meditation?

Meditation 2
Name : Deathless Meditation
Duration: 10 minutes

(Request: please don’t pass any comments, don’t come to any conclusions, don’t ask any questions or doubts without trying the following personally)

Preparation: 
1. Choose a lonely peaceful place.
2. Switch off your mobile or set to silent mode. Keep away from disturbance.
3. Sit on a chair and close your hands and eyes. Feel relaxed. Keep the eyes closed until the end of the meditation.

Stage 1 (2 minutes)
Watch your body with closed eyes, first from top to toe, then totally the whole body. Don’t go away with the thoughts that may interrupt.  Silently and totally just watch your body without any expectations or thoughts about past and future.

Stage 2 (3 minutes)
Now imagine you come before the chair you are sitting.  Watch your body that is sitting on the chair.  As a third person, now, you are watching your body, first from top to toe, then totally the whole body.

Who are you now? Are you the person who is watching the body on the chair? Are you the body sitting on the chair? The question is -who are you? Are you the watcher? Or the watched? The watcher is called consciousness.  You are both the watcher and the watched (body).

Stage -3 (5 minutes)
Now imagine that the body on the chair disappeared. You are watching an empty chair on which your body was earlier.  Watch the empty chair for 5 minutes totally without any thoughts, fear, or confusion.

You are watching, so you are the watcher.  The thing watched is chair.  Your body disappeared.  Now who are you? Are you the watcher? Are you the chair that is watched? You are both.  The watcher (consciousness) is the same, though the things or persons watched may be thousands.  The watcher, the consciousness has no form that is you.  The watcher (you) never dies, though all that is watched in life may die or disappear one day.  You are Deathless.

Benefits of this meditation:
1. All your worries and stress disappear.
2. Your ego and illusion will be washed out.
3. Your consciousness will grow and unnecessary thoughts will diminish.
4. Arising self realisation and silence will result in flowering of yourself and you will enjoy the fragrance of your flower each moment.

Find Yourself

Man is identified in thousand and one ways which prevent him from understanding his real self.
I am Mani – identified by name
I am Hindu – identified by religion
I am man – identified by gender
I am Indian – identified by nationality
I am tamilian – identified by state and language
I am post graduate – identified by education
I am lecturer – identified by profession
I am father, husband, brother, son to someone – identified by relationship
I am old, lean, of average height, fair – identified by physical aspects
I am rich or poor – identified by money
I am good, or bad, short tempered or foolish – identified by character
I am buried among these identities
People see only these masks that I have worn, not my real face.
I am hidden by all these labels pasted on me.
My id card, ration card, passport, aaddhaar card, pass book, etc carry these identities.
Society gives these identities to everyone and makes them compulsory,
Though these identities are not really me.
Put aside these identities
Walk freely, live freely, feel freely,
Fly like a bird which wears no ID card.
Swim like a fish that belongs to no religion.
Grow like a tree by your own nature.
Search for identity, you miss yourself.
Be no body.  You will find yourself.

Evolution of Ignorance

Evolution stage 1:
Man divides something into right or wrong, based on his religion, nationality, culture, knowledge, experience, etc.  Going to a temple to worship a statue of God is right to a Hindu, but wrong to a Muslim.  Bride wearing white dress at marriage is right in England, but wrong in India.  Playing with toys is right to a child, but wrong to a young or a middle aged one. Eating non-veg is right to someone’s knowledge and wrong to someone’s.

Evolution stage 2:
Whatever is right becomes good.  Whatever is wrong becomes bad.  Thus all things are divided into good things and bad things, all people into good people and bad people.  All behaviors, words, thoughts, deeds, into good and bad.  According to one’s own fulfillment of desires, needs, expectations or the benefits they get, all are classified into good and bad. The mind game goes on.

Evolution stage 3:
Dos and donts are framed from what is good and what is bad.  These are named as morals.  Following this is called discipline.

Evolution stage 4:
Good is divided into three -low, medium and high.  They are termed as good, better and best, by comparison.  The best are rewarded, liked, appreciated, honoured because they secured first place, in the race towards “high" level.  Bad is divided similarly as bad, worse and worst.  The worst are criticised, disliked, neglected, punished, insulted, because they reached “high" level in  “bad”.  Governments and religions joined together, laws were framed to do “justice”.

There are no good people and bad people – there are only people.  There are no good things and bad things – there are only things. There are no men and women – only human beings. Which is good to someone in someplace in some age in some religion is a bad one to someone else in others.

 Secondly, recognising good and punishing bad, the very effort to eradicate the negatives is ignorant. Without bad people, good people cannot exist.  If all are good on earth, the very word, good is meaningless.  Without ugliness, beauty cannot exist.  If all are beautiful, whom will you admire as beautiful.  If all are intelligent, whom will you honour as intelligent?  Ignorance is in the very desire to be good or best, beautiful or the most beautiful, intelligence or the most intelligent.

The mind game goes on.  People are good players.

Difference between a Master and a Mystic

Both are enlightened. Both have realized themselves.  Both are always conscious and are one with the universal self.  The difference is that the mystic has zero desire whereas the master has one desire that he wants to remain in the world and with people for certain time so as to show them the way for their enlightenment.
A mystic is great because he is an enlightened person but he is of no use to others.  The master is greater than a mystic because he is not only enlightened but also has concern for the society which rendered him food, education and shelter.
If ever you are enlightened, be a master rather than a mystic.