Question: I have been reading about the brain and I realized that we are trapped by this wonderful organ, as much as we are liberated by it. The mind is a part of this ‘gross body’. Perhaps this billions of years of old dust(read body and brain) has finally arrived at a point where its complexity lets it introspect the nature of itself and its composition. And in this introspection it can escape its own nature, itself and its own prison. It can see that it is not what it thinks it is, but is the expression of That: of the seer who is not seen.
I will be in this samsara and I will do what it takes, but I am not bound to it. I will be my body but I am not bound to it. Perhaps, I will get married, but I will not be bound to it. Perhaps I will have children, but I will not be bound to it. There is nothing here but the dance of the body, it’s becoming and it’s coming and going. We just watch it take shape… and laugh at the fetters which are the fetters of the body…..
Sir, without freedom there is no happiness. There is no higher way. Freedom is the absolute, the only and the one. Freedom I say is also sat-chit-anand. When there is love there is freedom, and what does not give freedom is not love. The love which chains is samsara: it is a base desire of the gross body, the sthool shareer. Reproduction is that! Love between a man and a woman in an act of marriage is that!Is our body not a prison? Is our mind not a prison?
Answer: A lot of people come to attend the Sunday and Wednesday sessions. A typical situation arises: they can see that the Upanishads or Ramanna or JK are indeed very strong and effective medications; but what for? The participants are clueless about the disease that it is being so diligently remedied. They can sense that the seer has applied himself deeply towards the solution of some problem; but what they wonder is whether there is a problem at all ! What the seer calls a problem, the world calls the bliss of life.
