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Who are we really?

 We are not the body nor our thoughts and feelings. We are not our desires too. We are pure beings of awareness, the consciousness, the Self, which is impersonal and non-participating but only a pure witness.

We have a personality. It uses mind to think and body to perform actions. This is the personal self that thinks that "I am so and so" and "I am different from others" when it wakes up in the morning. This is the ego-self. This engages itself in the world and participates in activities. It makes plans and so on and so forth. 

We are not this ego-self.

If we observe ourselves carefully, we will know where we live most of the time. Do we live in the noise of the mind or in the silence of the Self? We will know why we are so restless and anxious all the time. We are restless because we live in our minds along with barrage of thoughts, endless desires and constant chattering. This is the normal state of the mind, or the natural frequency of the mind, if we can say that. This is our frequency for most part of our day or life. With this state of mind, we engage with the world and do our things.

The pure Self, on the other hand, is silence and bliss. It has got a different frequency. We can get to this frequency when mind attains silence. A silent mind means no mind, which would be like the death of the mind or death of the ego or the personality. This personality has to die for the silence to rise and pervade. This is the frequency of God. To be able to establish in this frequency would mean that mind drops its contents that make it impure. Interests in the objects of the world create attachment to these objects, creating thoughts and desires to own them. These are the contents of the mind. The attainment of these desires leads to new desires and rejections lead to anger. These are all contents of the mind. Mind has to lose its contents and then it can remain silent. That means that it has no interests in the world, no desire and is fully contented with whatever it has got and whatever the situation it is in. It has no desire to change anything. When this happens, its frequency changes the silence, and the bliss of the pure Self engulfs everything.

Once one is fully established in the silence, one can operate from there, performing all actions. A silent mind does not mean no actions, but it means actions without getting attached to the outcomes and accepting whatever the outcomes are. A silent mind means that the mind is quiet and tranquil in all circumstances and is not perturbed with whatever is happening around.

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