{"id":4917,"date":"2022-08-30T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2023-06-22T06:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T12:39:53","slug":"sri-mahaprabu-could-not-find-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/sri-mahaprabu-could-not-find-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Mahaprabu could not find the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quoted from Journey of Sri Mahaprabu<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Black emphasis is Mahaprabu\u2019s; green is Freddie\u2019s.<\/i><\/p>\n

Then came the words from Karl [Renz], as if he had read Mahaprabu\u2019s mind. \u201cCome on, ask the question!\u201d (He probably saw the smile on my [Mahaprabu\u2019s] face)<\/p>\n

Mahaprabu: \u201cMyself?\u201d<\/p>\n

Karl: \u201cYes! You.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mahaprabu: \u201cYou are telling \u2018Drop the mind.\u2019 But how to drop the mind?\u201d (Mahaprabu had not spoken English in 6 years. These were the first words.)<\/p>\n

Karl: \u201cFirst you check whether there is a mind to drop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The match was struck.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mahaprabu checked. I am here. I can feel the body, feel the world, feel my own existence but I am unable to feel the existence of the mind. Ah! It hit him. Beyond words came an understanding that all this time I have been worrying about something that doesn\u2019t exist. I had created an entity called the mind and then tried to control it. Because of the present moment practice for 1 full year<\/b><\/span> his mind always had just one thought, that is to stay in the present moment. For one year, just one thought. As one paper cannot be called a book, one thought cannot be called a Mind. Mahaprabu skipped the present moment thought and became attention. I searched deeply but could not find a trace of a mind. That was it. Then like something faster than light, I went inward. But I am there! Going deeper but I am still there. Before it was in flashes. Now it was continuous. I could stay with it. Joy, Bliss. I lost total awareness of surroundings, crowds etc. I merged in the universe. The thirst that started at 19, was quenched.<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

We have to lose the idea that we have a mind. Because Mahaprabu was in total \u2018No Mind\u2019 state for 1 year<\/b><\/span>, he was able to drop. The same words \u201cSimply drop the mind\u201d for a normal person wouldn\u2019t have worked, since he assumes the mind exists. For Mahaprabu there was no mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quoted from Journey of Sri Mahaprabu. Black emphasis is Mahaprabu\u2019s; green is Freddie\u2019s. Then came the words from Karl [Renz], as if he had read Mahaprabu\u2019s mind. \u201cCome on, ask the question!\u201d (He probably saw the smile on my [Mahaprabu\u2019s] face) Mahaprabu: \u201cMyself?\u201d Karl: \u201cYes! You.\u201d Mahaprabu: \u201cYou are telling \u2018Drop the mind.\u2019 But how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/photo-not-found.jpg?fit=1344%2C896&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YVpx-1hj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4924,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddieyam.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}