Thoughts come and go
Nisargadatta Maharaj: January 9, 1981 Questioner: What are thoughts? Maharaj: They are the result of previous conditioning which the mind has had. Q: Are the thoughts of the jnani and the ignorant one different from one another? M: The difference is that the jnani has divorced himself from the body-mind, the body-mind thoughts will come and go but the jnani is not concerned; whereas, the ignorant one gets involved in those thoughts and the ignorant one considers himself as a name and a form. —- —- —- Ramana Maharshi: June 19, 1936, Talk 211 D.: What is this mind? M.: A bundle of thoughts July 13, 1935, Talk 65 The ajnani takes the world to be real; whereas the Jnani sees it only as the manifestation of the Self. It is immaterial if the Self manifests itself or ceases to do so. —- —- —- Ramana Maharshi: February, 1939, Talk 623 Sri Bhagavan said to another devotee that there are five states: (1) Sleep, (2) Before waking, a state free from thought...