Our most important possession is a good mind.
We don’t need to get God. He is already within us. He is our supreme consciousness and the witness of our mind. It is the mind that keeps us from knowing God within, the true Self. The mind veils the inner Self and makes us feel that God is far away. That same mind that hides God is also the means to reveal God. The outwardly focused mind that separates us from the Self can be purified and turned within to reveal the Self.
A spiritual path isn’t finding God. It is purifying and stilling the mind. We let the mind run everywhere seeking pleasure and satisfaction is the world, hoping for happiness. We fill our mind with desires that are firmly attached to outcomes and live in the resistance we create. Our endless thinking and grasping agitates the mind and we live in the chaos, brooding over our disappointments. We become restless.
The mind is a pulsation of the true Self; an impulse of supreme creative intelligence. A thought is a contracted form of consciousness – the same consciousness that is the all-pervasive creative intelligence that manifested this world. The one creative consciousness that creates infinite objects in the universe is the same consciousness that contracts and fills our mind with infinite thoughts. Inside of us and outside in the universe, supreme consciousness is creating, maintaining and destroying worlds.
When we are covered with impurities, filled with samskaras, the impulses of creative intelligence become colored with the impurities. Then, what should be a pure impulse of creativity becomes a chaotic, grasping, negative thought. The endless thoughts cover over the source of thought, the true Self. With purity comes peace of mind, making stillness possible. When the mind become still, God within is revealed, illumined and recognized as the true Self.
We are not the turbulent mind. We are the witness of the mind; the true Self. Every step we take to purify and still the mind expands our realization of God within. As we become purer and gain peace of mind, the created, egoic self that is the image we live in and show to the world dissolves. What remains is the true, all-pervasive, divine Self. A good mind is a pure and still mind. That mind reveals its source as divine.
Blessings,
