In The Past I Followed A Different Path, Was It A Waste Of My Time?

Listen to Ektaji's answers to different questions related to Advaita (non-duality). These teachings are aimed at experiential understanding of the Truth viz. the dissolution of the Subject and Object relationship.

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WARN illance Lyric Vibhany D Mas A Vibhang It's possible that the mind does create.

For some people,

It is possible that the mind tries to create such things.

But don't get into it.

It's okay.

What is,

Is.

Now I've graduated to a higher level knowledge.

Everything before this was mind,

Mind,

Mind.

We were training the mind.

We're telling the mind,

See,

This is Raga.

This is Dvesha.

We're educating the mind.

Now the mind has become like a suit boot me,

You know,

Kind of intelligent.

He's become decent from being jungly.

He was total animal like first and now he's become very decent.

So now that he's become decent,

Now he's calmer,

He's quieter,

Which means it gives us the gap,

The moments to take the step back and be knowingly the knower.

When he's too jungly,

We are so trapped in him that there is no time to,

You know,

Take this step back and see the mind.

Right?

So you must have noticed over the years of doing knowledge,

This guy has become tame.

He's become domestic.

He was totally wild first.

So this step is also very important.

But now from here,

I progress here.

The reason to tame the mind was so that I get a chance to be the knower and get a glimpse of who I really am.

Yeah.

So the longer the mind remains tame and quieter,

The longer I can stay here and just be and just be and just be.

And then I become very comfortable in that silence.

When I become comfortable in my new skin,

It's absolutely a new area.

Then I can allow even the mind to do its dance,

But I don't move from here now because I've become so comfortable and strong here that it cannot flutter me anymore.

It cannot like grab my attention anymore.

Yeah.

And then it starts losing the ego part of the mind,

Starts losing its power and you will see a natural humility,

A natural softness arise in you.

It will happen on its own.

Yeah.