Good morning friends. Thinking mind may consider as a hard thing and as an easy thing. It depends to a person when he can have a hard time to think or an easy time think. It will depend on the situation of life or incident should he wanted to think. But working the mind is surely be difficult. Even if we want to think things easily, if our mind didn’t work properly we can’t do a rightful things.
How to differentiate between ego and mind?
You can’t. They are the same. The thinking mind and the ego are the same. In the ordinary body-mind organism mind can be both working mind and thinking mind. In the case of the sage it is only the working mind.
Is the body-mind organism like the programme in a data machine that produces thinking?
The thinking happens according to the way the body-mind organism has been programmed. Why does a thought occur? It occurs because that is supposed to produce an output. So the equation E = mc2 was there all the time, but only that body-mind organism named Einstein was programmed to receive the equation, that got that thought.
The term “body-mind organism” means body and, in the case of an ordinary person, both the working mind and the thinking kind, but only the working mind in the case of the sage.
The wanting to know is the individual sense of doership. Ramana Maharshi repeatedly said, “If the question arises, find out who wants to know.” If you really go into “who wants to know”, the “who” will disappear because there is truly no “who”.
The arising of the question is not in your control, or whether you take delivery of that question and get yourself horizontally involved. It is a vertical happening. Getting involved in that question is a horizontal involvement. So the horizontal involvement is avoided with this question: “Who wants to know?” - The Times of India
Satsang: Ramesh S Balsekar
