FREE MIND

Buddha's disciple subhuti suddenly discovered the richness and fecundity of emptiness; the realisation that everything is impermanent , unsatisfactory and empty of self.. In this mood of divine emptiness, he sat in bliss under a tree when the flowers began to fall all around him.And the gods whispered, "We're enraptured by your sublime teachings in emptiness." Subhuti replied, "But I've not uttered a word about emptiness." "True," the gods replied. "You've not spoken of emptiness, we've not heard of  emptiness. This is true emptiness." And the showers of blosom continued.

If I had spoken of my emptiness or even been aware of it, would it be emptiness? Music needs the hollowness of flute, Letters, the blankness of the page, light, the void called a window, holiness, the absence of self." "Divinity descends on man who never seeks divinity," said a persian mystic.Our minds are too cluttered with the idea of self, divinity and spirituality. In our conscious endeavor to become spiritual we fall short of our objective and remain worldly. We're all too preoccupied with things that have no real significance in life.

A women went to lao Tse and said that she was continuously tormented by useless thoughts whenever she sat for her evening prayers. Lao Tse said, "Try to pray anytime in a day and come to me after a few days." She came to meet Lao Tse and told him that no thoughts tormented her now when she din't set aside a fixed hour for prayers. "When you fixed a time, your self was conscious.You were aware of the need to pray at a given time. Now with random prayers, you've broken that stifling mould. You're no longer conscious, thus free of any pestering thought."  Unawareness is a blissful state. With awareness comes a set pattern. It gives birth to a structure, a formula , a format.

Blissful ignorance is divinity Only in  a state of bekhudi or self - immersion you can reach the stage of self-enlightenment, called 'turiya avastha.' Budhha never felt that he has  attained satori or enlightenment. It became integral to his mystique consciousness. Any effort to expedite the process of enlightenment is futile.

Conscious endeavor cannot lead a seeker to his spiritual destination. Nor is the lifestyle of monk assurance of achieving the state of perpetual bliss. The moment mind becomes free of wish, desire, wistfulness, a divine consciousness descends."God finds his way through unconscious and unpretentious. Because divinity resides in a blissfully unaware mind," tagore wrote in the gitanjali.