What Does The Mind Really Want? - 31st May 2016

The question is: what does the mind really want? So I will say what I often hear, which is that the mind is also consciousness. Because everything is consciousness, the mind is also consciousness. What is the purpose of it? It is designed by consciousness, and we can say like this—all of it is much more primal than any description—but we can say that the mind is the tool that consciousness invented for itself, the game that it invented for itself, which allowed it to believe itself to be a person. Without this device, this energy construct, it would never be possible for God to operate personally. This just wanted to play this game of person-person, yeah?

So just like if I want to play a game of doctor-doctor with my daughter, then it's good that we have some of these plastic stethoscopes and, you know, devices that give more belief to the construct. So this realm is for God to experience herself or himself personally. It makes do with this device which interprets everything in a personal way so that God can then claim a personal identity. Without this, it's not possible. Any appearance can come, even the most horrendous or the most sublime, but they're not taken personally unless this energy construct called the mind was there.

Now, of course, only it wants to play. Who else is there? It is not really, but as part of the play, it has made scenes where it is play-acting, where it's really like down and out, you see? Like this, it's all part of the play. We're either in great bliss or in great sorrow; all part of the same play that it is writing for itself, part of the script. Including the play of delusion and freedom from delusion, all of this—Satsang, not believing, towards recognizing what we are—is all part of one play, the same play.

Your play, yes.

The way it expresses itself. But you see, even in Satsang, no two expressions of consciousness will exhibit exactly the same journey, isn't it? Why? Because in the play, even in life, redundancy is very boring. So all of this is one big Leela. Then why have redundancy? It's already been experienced in one form that way, so why must it be experienced this way? So like a fingerprint, you see, every expression is unique. Isn't that amazing? Every face is unique, every fingerprint is unique. See why? Because in this testing of this play, God apparently doesn't want redundancies. This is boring. So every expression, everyone in Satsang, all of you are so different, yeah? Listening to the same thing, your interpretations could be different, your questions could be different. But in reality, you are the same. You are one. In fact, at that point, you cannot say 'you' and 'I'. There's only one.