Acharya Prashant: We need a mind that is not eager to react. That does not mean that it does not act. It acts beautifully, but it does not react. In fact, these two things go together: the ability to act beautifully, and the lack of tendency to react. The more reactive you are, the more your action would be compromised. Your action would lack authentic agency. Your action would just be an echo of something that somebody else did. There would be no originality.
Brahman: the one without parts.’ It would be obvious by now that when we are talking of Brahman, we are actually talking of a very special condition of the mind beyond all conditions and conditioning; a condition so special, you can call it another dimension. When we are talking of Brahman, we are not talking of any objective entity. We are talking of the subject itself, in its most purified, rarefied form. If we do not get this, then we will miss the essence of the entire discussion.
When we say, Brahman,what is it that we are referring to? We are not referring to the wall, to the door, to the stars, to the constellations. We are not even referring to some imagination or concept. All these are objects to the mind, in the sense that the mind thinks of them. When we say, Brahman,we are referring to the mind itself, but not the usual state of the mind, not the normal conditioned mind.
Brahman is mind special. Brahman is mind free of itself. Brahman is mind liberated from the fear of its own existence. The common mind is fragmented, it has lots of parts. What is meant by ‘parts’? Parts are things that are next to each other that coexist but never merge into each other. They coexist but never coalesce. The mind is like that. It has a thousand parts that keep shifting, changing, increasing, decreasing. Each of these parts is actually a territory occupied by an external influence. You could have a vast piece of land that has been colonized by forty different external powers. Now, these parts will keep fighting with each other because each of them is ruled by a different power.
