Going Beyond the Mind

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The mind can be your worst enemy and the same mind can be your dearest friend. The mind can elevate you to the heights of spiritual bliss and the same mind can plunge you into the depths of worldly despair. The irony is that although we live with the mind, we live as the mind and yet, we don't know what the mind is!

The spider of this mind continues to spin its intricate web of endless thoughts, speculations, emotions, and fantasies. And the human is trapped more and more with every passing moment. Thus, people keep tossing up and down in the tumultuous wheel of samsara. But there is a way out. Our sages have illumined the path that takes us to total clarity. A pure, refined mind is the gateway to unadulterated bliss.

The awakened master, Anandmurti Gurumaa, helps us understand the nature of our own mind and how to transform this mind so that it becomes our best ally on the journey to complete fulfilment. Understanding the mind is going beyond the mind and transcending the mind is the attainment of eternal bliss.

Mind is a very complex phenomenon. Neurophysicians and neuroscientists recognise the brain to be the master controller of the body. However, when we talk about the mind, we are not referring to the brain. The mind is a much, much bigger entity than the brain. Western Scientists are still researching the mind, trying to understand its recondite nature. However, the East recognised this entity a long time ago.

Our rishis understood the mind in totality and discovered various ways of going beyond it. They concluded that understanding the mind is more of an inward journey than an outward investigation. An entity can be transcended once it is known. If you know that by swimming, using a boat, or walking over a bridge, one can cross a river, what do you do? You simply use any of the above methods to cross it. Similarly, knowing the mind is the way of going beyond it.

Remember, this book will not provide you with any theoretical knowledge. Your mind has had enough of that already! In fact, your mind is burdened by it. This live- discourse-based book will offer you an entirely different perspective. It will allow you to know rather than a mere gathering of word-based knowledge. This series of talks is not based on passively acquired knowledge. It is the direct experience of the being who has gone beyond all boundaries of the mind. It is the vision of an enlightened master who has transcended all dualities.

Our mind lives in duality. It perpetually lives in conflict of either this or that, always in some kind of a dilemma. This book offers you the sutras of a master whose vision stands undivided. The duality of mind has ceased to exist, and the vision has become so transparent that its pristine clarity will guide you towards the ultimate freedom. Deep inside, we all want to understand the phenomenon called the mind. Some of you may have tried ways to know it and, in the process, have exhausted yourselves. The one who has known the mind in its totality, he or she alone can show us the way to go beyond it.

This book, a compilation of a series of discourses delivered at a meditation retreat, gives you the perfect opportunity to understand the entity called the mind.

Anandmurti Gurumaa's deep insight and sagacity will open new avenues for you. It will tap your dormant potential and uncover your capability of understanding, of 'knowing'. You may have read many books, but these sutras will not add to your academic learning. Instead, they will allow you to see beyond the confines of the mind. They will reveal an entirely new world-a world of no chaos, a world of no-duality, a world of no conflict.