InnerRealisation

Jivanmukti – Freedom While Living…

Part – 6:
When the Mind Becomes Your Servant…

The ordinary man is ruled by his mind.
The Jivanmukta rules his mind—
Not with force,
but with freedom.

The mind is like a restless monkey,
constantly leaping from thought to thought.

But in the Jivanmukta,
the monkey sits quietly—
not because it was caged,
but because it has lost its hunger.

Desires no longer pull.
Fears no longer push.
The mind becomes clear, silent, obedient.

It becomes a mirror, not a storm.
It reflects the world,
but does not distort it.

What changed?

The I that says “mine”,
that clenches, that fears—
has vanished.

In its place,
a deep stillness watches all.

The mind still thinks, yes—
but the Jivanmukta is no longer tangled in those thoughts.
Thoughts become like clouds in the sky,
not ropes around the soul.

The Yoga Vasistha says:

“When the mind is no longer your master
but your tool—
then freedom is not far.”

The Jivanmukta doesn’t kill the mind.
He purifies it.
So it becomes what it was always meant to be—
a flame that lights the path,
not burns the house.

At the deepest level, you are a cosmic miracle. Your body is made up of about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms each one forged in the hearts of ancient stars and supernovae billions of years ago.

Every atom in you carbon, oxygen, calcium, iron traveled an epic journey across the universe before coming together to make you.

This means you’re not just in the universe you are the universe, expressing itself as a living, breathing human form. The atoms in your body have seen cosmic explosions, danced in nebulae, and helped build worlds before ever becoming a part of you. When you look at your hands, your heart, your very thoughts, you’re witnessing the universe reflecting on itself.

It’s a humbling and awe-inspiring thought: we are star-stuff, walking and wondering, living proof that the cosmos itself is alive with possibility.

📸 Credit: Physics and astronomy research, Carl Sagan’s “star stuff” quote, and atomic structure studies.

A man asked Maharajji, “What should I do for sadhana?” Maharajji said, “Don’t bother about Sadhana just keep repeating Ram.” This man was an old devotee, not retired from his job. When HD was doing much work, Maharajji said to him, “It will all belong to you one day. And if you do it with a pure heart, Hanuman will talk to you.”

– Miracle of love

Jai Sri Neem Karoli Maharaj Ji 🙏

The ordinary man earns a living, eats three times a day, amuses himself with trival entertainments, remaning engrossed in the mechanical performance of material dutes  without ever awakening to the importance of understanding the purpose of life : attaining true happiness and sharing it with others. The wise man gives up false pride in self-perfection, the thought that “I am all right as I am.” Using the net of introspection,  he catches delusion and destroys it. Forsake the slumber of ignorant habits and awaken  wisdom by performing those good habits which alone can free life from danger and crown it with lasting happiness.

~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,

*What is the real practice of sadhana? Bhagawan clearly states so that we may strive to dedicate our time and energy to such sadhana.*

Sadhana is not only japa, rituals, bhajans, etc. The essence of all sadhana is to obey God’s command. In God’s treasury, there are many gems and valuables. What is God’s nature? It is to give more than you can understand, but if you ask, your prayer may not be fulfilled. “Do not ask, oh mind, do not ask. The more you ask, the more you will be neglected. God will certainly grant you what you deserve without your asking. Did He not grant the wish of Sabari, who never asked? Did He not redeem Jatayu, who never asked but sacrificed his life for His cause?” (Telugu Poem) God gives more than you could ever ask when you follow His command, worship Him wholeheartedly and with full surrender. That is true sadhana.

*Only he who obeys God’s commands is redeemed. There is no point in undertaking spiritual practices without obeying God’s commands.*

“Why has God created wicked people?”
Sri Ramakrishna: “That is His will, His play. In His maya there exists avidyā as well as vidyā. Darkness is needed too. It reveals all the more the glory of light. There is no doubt that anger, lust, and greed are evils. Why, then, has God created them? In order to create saints. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Is there anything impossible for a man who has subdued his passions? He can even realize God, through His grace. Again, see how His whole play of creation is perpetuated through lust.”

I am not the entity that imagines itself alive or dead. I am neither born nor can I die. I have nothing to remember or to forget.

For the Jnani the entire universe is His body, all life is His life. As in a city of lights, when one bulb burns out, it does not affect the network, so the death of a body does not affect the whole.

The whole is real, the parts come and go. The particular is born and reborn, changing name and shape, the Jnani is the Changeless Reality, which makes the changeful possible. But I cannot give you the conviction. It must come with your own experience. With me all is one, all is equal.

Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. Just keep it in mind.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[ I Am That]

Free of lust, wise, restrained, gentle, always pure, indifferent, calm, steady, and with all hungers vanished, is the sage who has taken refuge in me. ||8-2||

The profoundly wise soul is deeply intelligent and aware, has triumphed over the six ‘gunas’ (five senses and the mind), is not arrogant but respectful to others, is deeply insightful, friendly and compassionate towards all. ||8-3||

He is merciful, non-violent, compassionate and soft towards all embodied beings. He is the essence of truth, an innocent soul, equanimous and the benefactor of all. ||8-4||

– Sri Dattatreya (Avaduta Gita).

“As long as a man feels that God is ‘there’, he is ignorant. But he attains Knowledge when he feels that God is ‘here’.

“A man wanted a smoke. He went to a neighbour’s house to light his charcoal. It was the dead of night and the household was asleep. After he had knocked a great deal, someone came down to open the door.

At sight of the man he asked,
‘Hello! What’s the matter?’

The man replied:
‘Can’t you guess? You know how fond I am of smoking. I have come here to light my charcoal.’

The neighbour said:
‘Ha! Ha! You are a fine man indeed!
You took the trouble to come and do all this knocking at the door! Why, you have a lighted lantern in your hand!’

“What a man seeks is very near him. Still he wanders about from place to place.”

– The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

When consciousness is without movement, that is the all-embracing fullness of Reality. Inasmuch as there is movement in consciousness, that Reality appears false. This is like the opening and closing of the eye.
As an illustration of this,
observe the manner in which
there is wind when the air moves, and
when it is still, there is not.

– Ozhivil Odukkam. Verse (47)
By Sri Kannudaiya Vallalar
Translated by Robert Butler
Commentary by S. Ram Mohan
and Robert Butler.

Mind is nothing other than the arising of movement in consciousness.
The importance of stilling such movement within consciousness is underlined in Sri Ramana’s translation of Devikalottaram v. 10:
“When the mind moves even a little,
that is samsara.
When the mind abides firmly and motionlessly (in the state of the Self),
that is mukti.
This is certain.
Therefore know that the wise man must hold his mind firm by supreme Self-Awareness.”

The word puranam, Sanskrit purna, means fullness; it is used here to indicate the absolute Reality, that which embraces all that is or ever could be, the source of the infinite potential of creation.
Later, in v. 90, the Self will be characterised a verum pazh – a pure void. The Self subsumes equally the all-embracing fullness of manifestation, as in the waking state, and the pure void of the unmanifest, as in deep sleep, yet is beyond both.
This Reality appears false to the extent that the mind-based personal consciousness convinces us that it is itself the Reality.
The ‘Real’ thus becomes just another mental construct which the mind perceives as exterior to itself, something to be sought after and gained.

When the eye closes the world picture ceases to appear in a person’s field of vision.
In a similar way, when the personal consciousness subsides into the universal consciousness of the Self, the entire world of names and forms no longer appears in the jnani’s consciousness.

– Mountain Path.  April 2014.