Q: Can you please clarify as to who is the ‘I’
and who is the real meditator, ‘I’ or the mind?
A: ‘I’ (as pure self) do not meditate as ‘I’
is always in a changeless, non-modifying, attributeless and thoughtless
state. Thoughts do not emanate from ‘I’ but they emanate
from mind. It is the mind who attempts meditation so as to become
calm. Do not get carried away by the gimmicks, which the mind
resorts to, just because it is unable to be stable. Try consciously
to be always aware of your ‘I’ (the real self) and
the mind will start taking rest in you.
“Meditation is not meant for the meditator (the Self, Atman)
and meditator is not at all meditating but meditation is meant
for the ‘Mediator’, the mind, whose phenomena is to
identify with everything other than its own source and thus veil
the conscious existence of an entity called the self, seer, experiencer,
meditator, atman, brahman and so on…”
|