How Do you Stop Mind?

Be Moved to Infinity Without the Benefit of Knowledge 

God is not the blue pearl, your wife's body nor any other experience. 

ADI DA SAMRAJ: The feeling self is the conscious self, the mental self, the thinking self. Our attention should be free through feeling. It should be simple attention. But our attention is wrapped up in thought, obsessive thinking. Our feeling is wrapped up in reactive feelings, mediocre and contracted emotional states. Our body is wrapped up in all kinds of kinks and knots, so that our actions are nonsense. They are limitations and dramatizations. 

If you are expressed as feeling without obstruction, mind becomes attention, but through feeling, not through obsessive thought. If you feel to Infinity, you do not think. The mind naturally comes to rest. But if you are obstructed in your feeling, and your try to stop thoughts like a yogi, it does not work very well. And if it did work, you would just become blank, dull, dead. 

The only reason for obsessive, continuous thinking is that the feeling core is collapsed, 

and thus all the parts race off in their functional independence. 

So we think and think and think and think and think and think. 

Our constant thinking never stops. 

Even if we lose consciousness for a while, as soon as we are conscious again we start thinking. We cannot stop it. After a while we become obsessed with stopping it. How do we stop it? The one who wants to stop it is the feelingless nature. If it understands its own dilemma and returns to feeling, then thought is forgotten, as in sleep, but the being is not unconscious, not dull. 

Through feeling, the being becomes sympathetic to the point of Radiance. It perceives the all-pervading Bliss as itself and gives itself up to Infinity. Even the body changes. All the functions are reintegrated, returned to one another, and the body, piece by piece, becomes light, literally. It becomes pure energy, even to the point of sudden disappearance. 

There have been a number of historical cases of individuals in a high state of emotional transcendence, who have suddenly disappeared on the spot, vanished, gone up in a flash of light. They are the evidence of our bodily Condition. But even before such an event as transfiguration, there are other sublime changes that occur in the body itself. It becomes radiant, blooming, pervaded by Bliss. It may appear to be surrounded by light. 

 

The, ego cannot effect such a transformation, 

because the ego is the collapse of feeling-attention, 

the collapse of Radiance, the contraction of energy. 

Only when we are yielded to Infinity does this transfiguration begin. And it begins in a relatively ordinary way. Our relations improve, our functional life improves in the loving sense, and psychic dimensions of the body-being begin to open. Visions and other phenomena may arise, but they all vanish in the face of the Heart's comprehension, until there is nothing to hold onto. There is simply inclusion in Bliss. 

There is no archetype in the mind by which to know that Destiny. It is not a matter of knowledge. All knowledge is a figure, a contraction, a modification. We are moved to Infinity without the benefit of knowledge. We must pass beyond the demand of knowledge, which is simply another way of getting loved, getting attention from without, surrounding ourselves with consolations. We must pass beyond knowledge by presuming Ignorance to be our Condition, which is the same as love, as Radiance. 

The seventh or ultimate stage of life is the bloom of that Reality, in which even the body is sacrificed to Infinity and transfigured through Bliss. The ultimate Realization is simply a maturing of Love. The old saying "God is Love" is absolute Truth. God is not the blue pearl nor your wife's body nor any other experience. Only the devotee realizes the secret. 

The devotee is sacrificed upon the secret.