Mind, Prejudice and Identity

 

If your mind or intelligence does not get entangled with any identity, including your body, your thought process, and your own emotions. The spiritual process is very natural. If your intelligence is not entangled with anything, it's very natural for your intelligence to enquire and open up the different dimensions of life. You identify yourself with something in search of security, in search of safety, in search of self-preservation, otherwise, it's not doing anything else. Please see. It gives you a false sense of belonging, which you will shed someday. The moment you are identified with something that you are not, your intelligence is freaked. It will go in cycles around that. Whatever you are identified with, your intelligence functions only around that. Please

What does a prejudiced mind do.

If you identify yourself with your religion, your nationality, or your family, it works only around that. It is a certain type of prejudice. A prejudiced mind cannot see, a prejudiced mind cannot reveal, the reality of life, that's all it is. When we say prejudiced, it's on many different levels. 'No, no, I am very broad-minded; I am not prejudiced.' This shows you have a broad prejudice. Your mind is functioning with a certain identity. Once there is an identity, it is prejudiced. 

A short story to explain this concept 

On a certain day, a man died and he went to heaven. There, God himself opened the gates of heaven and welcomed him. And God said, "See, I have a few chores to finish and come. If you could just mind the gate for me for a few minutes, I'll just come back". He felt great, substituting for God. That's nice. Substituting for God and filling in for God are not small honours. Keeping the gates, but it's okay. You are doing God's job. He was waiting for something to happen and to his distress and amazement, his wife appeared at the gates. He said, "What, what, what are you doing here? This is not a local bar or something. How did you follow me?". She said, "Well, I was just driving back from the funeral, I crashed the car and here I am". Then...when he entered, God had put a test for him. When he came to the gates, God had asked him, "See, my son, you have come here, that's fine, but you have to spell a word, if you have to enter heaven". So, he had a thought, ’Oh my God! Is the old man a schoolteacher? He is asking for spelling. Is there a damn spelling test even here? God said, "Don't you worry. It's a simple word." "What's the word, Father?" God said, "You have to spell the word, "Love". 

So, then he thought that he had told many people 'I love you,’ but he had never written a letter. Hence, he thought LU…LU…LO…LOVE? God said, ’You passed, come in.’ He said, ’'Okay, somehow, I got it." Now when his wife came, he said, 'Okay, you have come here but unless you spell a word, you can't get in.' She said, ’Oh, come on! If you can spell the damn word and get in, can't I do it? Tell me what's the word.' He looked at her and said, 'Czechoslovakia'. 

How come the mind is prejudiced 

Mind is a very prejudiced thing. It all depends on what they are identified with. Whatever you are identified with, your mind rotates around that. Right now, you are identified with many things that you are not, many. 

This is what has happened to you. For example, there are many ways to look at it. What you accumulate, can be yours. I will not dispute it for now, but it can never become you.

 Did you accumulate your mind over some time? 

It's a, 'Yes' for everyone. 

But both these things right now you call me myself. It doesn't stop there. It just extends into many things. Your home, your car, your things, your money, your children, your husband, your wife, and a million other things, your religion, your ideas, your ideologies, everything. You are identified with too many things, which you are not. It's a wonky intelligence, it's lost its penetration. It simply repeats old nonsense. 

 What Karma Theory Signifies  

Once you get identified with something, you are not, your intelligence is no good. It just becomes repetitive. So, this repetitive intelligence is what we are referring to as Karma. When we see someone going through certain patterns, irrespective of the solutions, in which they exist. Sun came up wonderfully this morning, but somebody is miserable. Flowers are blossoming, the weather is good, and everything is great but somebody is miserable. Then we say, oh, it's his Karma.

Conclusion 

 Why we are saying this is, this is our own doing, because he has set up patterns, which are just repetitive. He's not able to enjoy the sunrise, he's not able to enjoy the beautiful breeze. He's not able to enjoy the fragrance of flowers, his Karma is going on. What is going on in his head, is what rules him. This is his Karma. Karma means action, your actions. 

In other words, your experience of life is one hundred percent, your doing. Nobody else's doing.