Written Messages

Pondicherry (India)

26 July 2011

 

Sage-Tagore-phenomenon is manifesting since Message 201. Sage Kabir also belongs to this phenomenon. In fact, Tagore had translated some of Kabir’s utterances into English as his tribute to Saint Kabir. Message 208 is from Upanishads, yet this becomes a part of the series on Tagore; as this invocation was Tagore’s favourite, which he had rendered in his unique melody (Rabindra Sangeet). Similarly, this piece from Kabir is also intended to be a tribute to Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary. Kabir was a living Sufi-saint of Varanasi (India) about five hundred years ago.

 

MANA MAAYAA TO EK HAI,

MAAYAA MANAHI SAMAAYE.

TEEN LOK SAMSHAY PARAA,

KAAHIN KOHUN SAMUJHHAAYE.

BEDHAA DINHO KHET KO,

BEDHAA KHETHI KHAAYE.

TEEN LOK SAMSHAY PARAA,

KAAHIN KOHUN SAMUJHAAYE.

MANA JAANAI SAB BAAT,

JAANAT HI AUGUN KARAI.

KAAHE KI KUSHALAAT,

KAR DEEPAK KUNWAI PARE.

MANA DIYAA MANA PAIYE,

MANA BIN MANA NAHI HOI.

MANA UNMANA UUS AUNDA JNYUU,

ANAL AAKAASHAA JOI.

MANA GORAKH MANA GOVINDO,

MANA HI AUGHAR HOI.

JE MANA RAAKHAI JATAN KARI,

TO AAPAI KARTAA SOI.

TANA KE JOGI SAB KARAI,

MANA KO KARAI NA KOI.

SAB BIDHI SAHAJE PAAIYE,

JO MANA JOGI HOI.

MANA AISO NIRMAN BHAYAA,

JAISO GANGAA NEER.

PAACHHE-PAACHHE HARI PHIREI,

KAHATA KABIR-KABIR.

 

It is not ‘my mind’ – ‘me’ is ‘mind’, ‘mind’ is ‘me’! There are no two! It is not that mind is attached or is not attached. Mind is attachment. Attachment is mind. There are no two! Bringing about the false division in the centripetal psyche is the neurological defect of humans, which is the auto-protective machinery of the myth called ‘mind’! And this is the root cause of perpetual ache & agony, pain & suffering of human species in all the three Gunas! All are in the same plight of divisive and illusory consciousness; no one is available to existential energy of understanding! Mind constantly arranging for its security and continuity is destroying the natural living quality of Life! But nobody listens, even if this is pointed out! Mind is in the corridor of opposites, conflicts and confusions and thus, in the majority of the situations, it is running into the wrong! In spite of the Light of holistic Awareness, the Life, the Intelligence (Chaitanya), one falls into the well of the wicked activities of the separative consciousness of the mind.

 

The contents and the constituents of the mind such as greed, fear, envy, belief-systems, aggression, conditioning and conflict are generating havoc at every level of human affairs. Only saviour is the ‘Unmana’- the ‘No-mind’- the all-pervasive emptiness, fire of awareness, un-nameable, immeasurable, whole-ness, Brahmaanda!

 

Mind can run into all kinds of complicated practices (Gorakh-dhandhaa). Mind can also make itself available for dissolution into comprehensive perception (Govinda). There can be total freedom from mind despite its availability in the dimension of daily tasks. Let one, carefully and choicelessly, be aware of the mania and mischief of the mind. Only then Awakening of Intelligence (Yoga) happens. Mind is Viyoga (separative ‘I-ness’). No-mind is the Yoga. Nobody is interested in this real Yoga. All are doing just physical fitness programmes in the name of Yoga! In the awakened awareness, all the rules, regulations and practices happen easily and effortlessly.

 

Mind then blasts into the benediction of No-mind. In that purity par excellence, the Divinity chases the human in natural state in order to occupy and banish all divisions in his inner being.

 

Perceptions:

 

When teaching and speaking is happening from the body of Shibendu, there is hardly any teacher-ship or speaker-ship! Just a passive movement in awareness without any pursuit or motive! Memory supplies the words and the vocal chord supplies the sound. The body gestures use mostly the hands and occasionally use the legs also, giving rise to some kind of dance too! Words shooting out from the body may perform the function of bullets killing the ‘mind’ of the listener to resurrect in life! These words are not fabricated by thought, because there is no thinker! It is a pure and simple outcome from live-sensory-perceptions happening just on the spot! But the mind is very cunning and calculating. It saves itself from being shot! And the age-old game of the mind, with its borrowed garbage of concepts and conclusions, continues unabated! Hardly some people listen without the pressures, prejudices, paradoxes and perversions from the past! Firing happens aimlessly! If some minds are shot dead, it is good! But if none is hit, it is still fine!

 

Jai Kabir