Chapter Four: Shaking the Mind🔗

Beloved Master,

I have heard You mentioning to us about how easy it is to drop the mind and our egos. Yet I am not able to do so. I have not been able to drop the mind. So by telling us that it is easy to drop, are You installing some sort of hope within us so that it may happen to us?

First thing: understand that this very question has come from the root of your ego. The ego is fed with logic, with reason and questions. And you have thought, you have thought quite a bit over this question na?! As long as you continue to remain host to such questions, not only remain host, but going on reasoning over such questions, be very clear: you are very much in the mind.

Second thing: when I tell you about the easiness of dropping the mind I am telling you based on whatever has happened within me. It may appear like a very big thing now, but once you have overcome the mind, you will simply not be able to understand how you were clinging to it for so long.

And one more thing: this feeling like you are not able to overcome the mind is also being felt from the mind only. Just see the conspiracy with which you are living! The mind is only telling you that it will be difficult to drop and you are getting confused! The mind wants to cling to you, it wants to confuse you and you are falling as bate to it. So do not make this mistake!

When you are thinking that you are not able to drop the mind and all these things, simply turn within your self and see from where this doubt is coming. You will see it coming from the mind only. It is one of the ego's efforts to cling to you. So simply say to your mind, 'Keep Quiet!' And you will see the mind silencing itself. It all depends on the intensity with which you try to silence such doubts. If you put forth your whole inner strength, the mind itself will be shaken!

So I am not trying to install any such hope within you. You see: the very concept of hope is also from the ego. Hope is the derivation of a very beautiful thing- faith. Faith is beautiful. It is a branch of bhakti, devotion. And bhakti can only be achieved when the mind is no more.

Hope has been created by our egos. It has been created as a means to pacify our fate. It serves as a shield for the ego to face what may come. And I am not trying to shield you of what is. My purpose is to throw you into reality by the dropping of your ego. It would be completely contradictory to give you hope. If I were to give you hope it would serve as a cushion to make your ego feel comfortable with whatever may come. And by making the ego comfortable, it will tighten its grip on you.

This is more than enough.

The rest will be taken care.

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Beloved Master,