November 13, 2024

Self-Awareness importance. Mental health: what is it? Mind and psychological time. Ramana Maharshi

The question for me: “Mental health, what is it?” The answer to that question requires an investigation of the truth about the mind. Then, the answer will make sense, that answer with words. We have to investigate the structure and nature of the mind. Once we understand that, a verbal answer will make sense; otherwise, it won't make any sense.

Here's the answer... That's the verbal answer, but we need to investigate it in a direct way, within each one of us. The truth about mental health, what is it? What is the truth about this sanity or this healthy mind? It seems to me that the issue of mental health requires the absence of the psychological condition of the time present in the mind. As long as the psychological condition in the human being is one of time, of the notion of time, past, present and future, from a psychological viewpoint, there will be no mental health.

Notice, every year specialists, doctors, those who study this, are always coming up with new findings and names for psychological disturbances, psychological disorders, mental disorders. So, every year new names are added to this manual of psychological disorders. They are names that portray new conditions or new names for old psychological disorders.

So, the psychological condition of the human being is problematic. Thus, we don't know the truth about the healthy mind. The healthy mind is the mind free of psychological time. We can call it a mind, but here we are dealing with something unknown to this mind as we know it, which is the mind of the “I,” this “me,” this ego.

We need to eliminate this psychological condition from within each one of us. This thought, emotion, feeling and sensation of being someone – follow me through this very carefully – that you have, has no basis in Reality. It is based and structured on the model of thought, this psychological conditioned thought that we have. If I ask you your name, you tell me your name. If I ask you for your address, you give me your address. But this information is information from memory, from the brain structure of this mechanism, this body-mind that is there, that you say is you.

What is the truth about you? Are you the body? Are you the mind? In fact, do you have a name? Do you have an address? Get that with me here. In deep sleep, do you have an address, do you have a name, do you have a body, do you have a story? In a faint or under general anesthesia, do you have a name, a story, a body? Note that this arises with thought. Thus, what we call mind is nothing other than thought.

When this thought moves, we call it consciousness. See how basic and simple it all is. What we call consciousness is the movement of thought, and what we call mind is the presence of thought. This is what is present in this body and in this mechanism that we call the mind: thought, emotion, sensation, perception. And all of this necessarily moves in time.

Thus, we have chronological time. Over millennia, millions of years, we have the appearance of life on the planet. The human being is also here as a biological, psychophysical mechanism in this so-called life on the planet. The movement of this so-called mind, which is the movement of thought – note this – is a present movement that we call consciousness. But without the movement of thought, this so-called human consciousness doesn't exist. It is the presence of thought, something that has been formed over these thousands and millions of years – I refer to this brain structure and the mechanics of how memory works, of remembrance, of recollection, because this is thought – that has given rise to this so-called consciousness in us.

Notice what an interesting thing we have here. This is a movement that takes place in time. So, we have chronological time, which is the time we know from the clock and the calendar; this is what has given rise to thought because the structure of thought is based on this time, which is memory.

Thought in you is nothing other than a memory, a recollection. You don't have a single thought that isn't a memory, that isn't a recollection or a remembrance. This is knowledge, this is experience, and this comes from the past. When this thought moves, we have this presence of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I.” You are aware of everything you recognize, and everything you recognize, you recognize because of the presence of thought.

But here we have a misunderstanding: we mistake the presence of thought, which is memory, which is the recollection recorded in the brain of a past experience, we mistake this thought for the presence of someone. So, for us, there is the thinker who produces thoughts, which is not true. What we actually have is the brain responding from thought, which is memory, to this or that stimulus reaction.

So let's take a moment to look at this. And why is it fundamental to have a comprehension of this subject, note, not intellectually, but experientially? Because every kind of suffering, conflict, problem, disorder and, therefore, all these disorders of emotional, psychological, psychic disorder, of psychic suffering, are present in us because we don't comprehend how this mechanics, which is the mechanics of thought, is processed.

We have a brain present in this mechanism, but there is no comprehension of how it works psychologically. The result of this is that thought is creating an identity for each of us, so you see yourself as someone separate from the other, from life, from events, from happenings. You see yourself as someone inside the body, also separate from the body, from feelings, emotions and thought.

What is producing this? It’s a thought. It's just a thought that positions you in life, in this existence, as being someone. Follow this through calmly. You see yourself as someone, and this “seeing” comes from thought, when it separates itself and creates an identity, which is the “me,” the “I.” If I ask you your name – let's go back to that again – if I ask you your address, it's not you who's giving me the answer, it's the brain. This you is an idea that thought has of a present thinker giving an answer. Do you get that or is it too complicated?

When you use the pronoun “I,” notice, it's a thought. It is the thought that is creating that pronoun, sustaining that pronoun and giving you a sensation, feeling, emotion, certainty of an entity present with an “I,” with the word “I” as a simple pronoun. It is thought that is giving you this suggestion of an identity present here and now, in experience. Let's investigate this with you.

My question to you: without thought, who are you? If there is no thought, here and now, who are you? In deep sleep there is no thought, in fainting there is no thought. When you receive a strong blow to the head, it takes a few seconds for you to become aware again of that feeling, sensation and thought “I am here,” because at that given moment of the blow to the head the brain has no answer to that question, if I ask you the question; you need time for the answer, to recover from the blow to the head. That time is thought.

From deep sleep to vigil state, time is needed. Only when you wake up and become aware of yourself, self-aware, can you give me an answer. We function, notice, on the basis of thought. This sense of “I” is present on the basis of thought. That's how we've been functioning, that's how we are functioning. So, there's a very close relationship between the mind, as we know it, and psychological time.

The presence of thought is time. The idea of being someone that you have is based on the past, which is memory, which is remembrance, which is time. Everything you can say about yourself to me is based on memory, which thought has registered, which is registered there, which the brain has registered. So, the thought registered in the brain, which is the past, which is remembrance, which is memory, which is time is telling me about this someone. Then, the “I” is the past. This “me,” which is the past, speaks of this “me” that is in the present and this “me” that is going to the future. There is no such thing, it's just a model of thought based on the idea of what was, what is and what will be. That's the meaning of the “I,” of the ego.

In you, the problem is the psychological condition of being you, which is nothing other than a condition of disorder, of psychological disorder, due to this model of psychological time. To investigate the nature of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me,” of this “you” is to go beyond the mind and psychological time to your Natural State of Being, which is timeless, which is non-spatial, which is non-mental.

Thus, your Natural Real State of Being is true Consciousness, which is Happiness, which is Love, which is Intelligence. This has nothing to do with this sense of “I,” with this feeling, thought, emotion “I” that the ego knows, which is within this psychological conditioning. This psychological conditioning is the result of the entire history of humanity present in this brain, in this model of conditioned intellect.

Thus, we've always talked to you here about the importance of Self-Awareness because it's Self-Awareness that gives you the chance to discard this illusion, the illusion of this ego-identity. Here I'm referring to the Truth of Self-Awareness. Here on the channel we have a playlist about the Truth of Self-Awareness and Real Meditation in a practical way, take a look at this playlist later on.

Here we use the expression “Self-Awareness” in a different way from psychology and philosophy. We put it in the sense of the direct comprehension of the truth about this so-called consciousness of the “I.” The truth about this consciousness of the “I” is that it is nothing more than a set of memories and recollections giving an illusory identity to this mechanism, to this body-mind, and this is discarded when there is the Truth of Spiritual Awakening, of the Realization of God.

So that's what we're working on here with you within this channel. That was the message of the sage Ramana Maharshi. When people came to him, he had one question for them. The question is: who are you? Look at yourself, investigate this, ask: who am I? What is this “me?” Thus, that's our job here with you.

We need to discover this Natural State of Being. If This is present, we have the Truth of what the free mind is, what the new mind is, what the free mind is from this egoic mind as we know it. It is You in Your Natural State of Being, where Divine Reality is present. So, to have an approach to Self-Awareness and the Truth of Real Meditation in a practical way, as we have been working with you here on this channel, is fundamental.

So, we're telling you that, yes, it is possible to have a life free from any form of psychic suffering. A free, new mind, a mind free from this psychological model of time, free from this illusion of “I was, I am and I will be” is You in Your Natural State, free from the ego. Some call this the Awakening of Consciousness, which is Happiness, which is Freedom. You were born to attain this.

So, that's our work here on this channel and also on our other channel, called “Marcos Gualberto.” Take a look at our other channel later on; you'll find the link to our other channel here in the video description. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and retreats that take place at certain times of the year. Apart from that, every week we have an opportunity to get together: we have online meetings, which take place on Saturdays and Sundays. Two days together, through questions and answers, going deeper into this, working on it with you. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description.

If this makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your “ like” here, subscribe to the channel and please say in the comments: “Yes, it makes sense.” OK? And see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

September, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
Further information

No comments:

Post a Comment

Share!