Dear,
You need to understand the mind.
To make it easier for you to understand, I will rephrase the question for you.
What is the need at all to understand the real self?
Only by going through this process will the distinction come that the mind may not be the real self. Ultimately his question is, ‘Why must I know myself? What is the need of self inquiry? Life is going on pleasantly, nicely. There seem no hiccups. I have a self-routine. I have my normal spectrum of pains and pleasures, and I am cruising along. So why must I find all these things- the self, and the mechanic of the things? Why must I understand them at all? Or in other words, why this type of course is being floated at all? What is the objective of this course?’
Why must we understand all this? Because all this is the process of understanding, and in this process of understanding, we come across this distinction- there is the mind and that mind may not be ‘me’. Let us see. How many of us young, free, men and women want to live a life of slavery? Hardly anybody. Who is the slave? Whom do we call as slave? A slave is someone who has no free-will of his own. His actions happen due to influence of others. This is what a slave is. Simple, that’s a slave. Now let us understand what is the way in which we function.
Wherever there is conditioning, there will be no free-will and the absence of free-will is nothing but slavery. Right? A very unfortunate event that can take place with every human being and does take place with most of us is, that we do not realize how deeply we are conditioned. We start identifying with our conditioning. Freedom from slavery is not at all possible, unless you look at the process of the mind and realize that you are not acting on free-will and intelligence.
This mind is two things. One, the conditioned part which you can give a general name as ‘the brain’. And second, ‘the conditioning’. This mind is the brain which carries all the conditioning, and the intelligence. The brain is thoroughly conditioned. You are not merely the brain, there is something more to you.
And when you discover that, the quality of your life totally changes. Your day-to-day living, the kind of decisions that you are taking, all that totally changes.There is now brilliance about it, there is now energy about it. You are not stupid anymore. You are not merely a machine anymore. Are you getting it?
For more clarity read http://prashantadvait.com/2014/02/15/why...
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