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Mind is like a bird cage with its many bars imprisoning the bird. The door of the cage is the heart, through which (when opened) the bird can fly to freedom so easily.
— Meher Baba
LETTERS FROM THE MANDALI, p. 34, ed Jim Mistry
1981 © AMBPPCT
MIND
- Creations Of The Limited Mind
- Mind divides a reality which is essentially indivisible.
- Mind Is Like A Bird Cage
- But even when the Keeper comes along and opens the door, the captive bird flutters about dashing against the cage.
- The Real Life
- "How to become footless and headless?" asked Baba.
- Mind Is Good If Controlled
- The horse is just like the mind; it is good if controlled, but dangerous if it becomes the master.
- True Forgetfulness
- When a man acquires the true forgetfulness, he enters the spiritual kingdom and passes through different degrees of forgetfulness until the Goal is reached.
- The Stopped State Of Mind
- If the mind tries to stop thinking, it goes into the sound sleep state, i.e. unconscious.
- On Keeping Mind Quiet, Steady and Firm
- Let Truth be your goal. This Truth — Paramatman — is nowhere to be searched for. For He is very near you, nay, He is with you, within you. Seek Him within you.
- Control
- Do not submit to desires, but try to control them.
- Speed-Breaker Story
- Stopping refers to the stopping of the mind. Baba said, "Mind working is man, mind working fast is mad, mind slowed down is mast and mind stopped is God."
- Real Samadhi For The Mind
- The fact is all is God, but you are misled by this shameless mind.
- Transcending The Mind
- Even when man is able to make direct use of the mind, he falls short of that ultimate experience of knowing himself as the infinite Godhead.
- Mind Is As Important As It Is Unimportant
- The mind eventually has to go, but we cannot try to force it out.
- Baba Stops My Mind
- You may describe it as consciousness without any thought, but that would also be a feeble description of the actual experience.
- Instinct, Reason And Inspiration
- Reason is the fulfillment of instinct, and inspiration is the fulfillment of reason.
- Master Of The Mind
- As a rule, such a Vali generally lives with drooping eyes in secluded spots, away from the gaze of mankind.
- Understanding As The Most Precious Attribute Of Love
- He awakened me further to the realization that His ways and words are always beyond the mind; understanding cannot come intellectually, but only as a result of love.
- Creative Control (Process Of Sublimation)
- The process of the replacing lower by higher values is the process of sublimation, which consists in diverting the psychic energy locked up in sanskaras towards creative and spiritual ends.
- Concentration On The Universal Aspect Of God
- Selfless service is accomplished when there is no thought of reward or result.
- I Declare That I Have Infinite Consciousness
- It is not easy for man to accept and keep on accepting under all circumstances that God is.
- The Art Of Shelving Thoughts
- It is important that you learn the art of "shelving" thoughts, so that you can function effectively and not be so drained by your experiences.
- As The Mind Obeys The Soul
- We have to have outward self-control as well as inner self-control. As the mind obeys the soul, the lower nature must obey the mind.
- The Divine Beloved Is Always With You
- I invite man to break through all of his self-created prisons, and taste of the unlimited life which I bring.
- Do You See Very Differently From Us?
- The death of the mind makes the eyes close, and you will only then see me as I really am.
- Inner Experiences Of The Real "I"
- Inner experiences end in Divine Awakening.
- Discrimination
- The word for discriminative faculties is, in the Buddhist terms, the buddhi.
- Real Samadhi For The Mind
- Man-O-Nash is real Samadhi for the mind. The mind is uprooted and this is the death of the mind.
- Intellectual Humility
- Whereas atheism is generally born of intellectual vanity, agnosticism is often the outcome of intellectual humility.
- Mind Is The Universe
- Mind is like a wound-up alarm clock. It will ring at the appointed time, but only so long as the winding is there.
- It Is The State Of The Soul Beyond The Mind
- The highest state cannot be explained or expressed in words; thought cannot grasp it; the mind cannot know it.
- The Real Treasure Within Your Own Being
- May His words flower into your mind, reaching your heart to awaken the real treasure within your own being.
- All Qualities Implement And Support Each Other
- If the inner life is to be harmonious and enlightened, divine qualities have to be developed and expressed in daily life.
- The Trinkets Of The World
- The trinkets of the world cannot tempt the true Divine Lover.
- You should learn how to dive!
- Be a diver in the Ocean of Love and you will find the Pearl of Baba!
- One Infinite Intelligence Is Omnipresent
- When Mind thinks really, It realizes Itself.
- Until The Mind Is Under Control
- Come and see and bear witness to Meher Baba's perfect knowledge and understanding of all human beings.
- The End Of All Thinking
- The troubles of the world are due to thinking.
- Wailing And Weeping Over Petty Things
- Penance should not be like the everyday repentance that follows everyday weaknesses.
- A Pot Of Water Can Be Polluted But The Ocean Cannot
- To say that the ocean experiences the illusion (bhas) of being a drop is to say that Infinite Intelligence is experiencing Itself as the false mind.
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