I hear it so often —all that talk about mastering the mind. Your mind can be honed and polished, but cannot be mastered with your mind. It will always be linear, narrow, partial, and imperfect. The blind cannot lead the blind to see. It’s a tool, an instrument meant to evolve you —its user— into something more. Your mind can only be made ready, purified, and organized to receive a Mastery that arrives from within and above, from a higher Power that lives beyond its limits.

Mind is not your all; it’s a convenient prism, a self-pregnant chrysalis that your High Self uses to gestate a greater purpose, a mercurial vessel that echoes possibility in shades of light and dark, to foment a spirit-matter alchemy destined to one day give you wings —to fly you into a greater Power and knowing, into a more authentic Consciousness-Being. 

Beyond the mind rests a sleeping cauldron of infinite potential that is everywhere, yet neither here nor there. —A grand superposition governed by an unbound Supra-Intelligence, a pure, ever-free, indefinable Caitanya Being. You came from that; you’re returning to that. When you do, you’ll do so with the power to command the infinite possibility that sleeps within it. One day, after trial and error, through fire and ice, and in the end, in complete surrender, you too will take your place with the Ascended —available to this world and more, but not subject to its limits. 

You might ask, “Surely you jest —how is that even possible?” If you could even briefly see this world from above, free of Maya’s veils, then the better question would be, “How could that not be possible?” Your mind has two predominant talents; it can lie to you or point the way to the Truth. 

Self evolves its passage from inconscient matter to conscious life, from conscious life to self-aware mind, and from self-aware mind to Caitanya consciousness. Ultimately, the Amartya (the Immortal you) awakens to swim the luminous bliss currents that connect the Supreme Purusha to the infinite sea of worlds below. 

© Aaravindha Himadra