Read Book - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

Two: Aspects of the Path 47
Mind creates worlds, delusions, illusions, etc., but mind remains
as mind. Mind cannot be transformed. Why Because it is not
one in itself. Mind survives by desires and thoughts and it is made
up of impressions. Ego is one in itself but this Ego (the real “I”)
is now bound by this mind. And this mind which is made up of
false impressions makes the real “I” think itself false. Mind makes
you think of birth, death, happiness, miseries, etc., as real things,
but nothing can be more false than this.
You are now here alive in the body, in your senses. Have
you any impression of how you were born, how your birth took
place No . . . because you were not born at all. It is the mind
that gives you the impression that you are here, or there, and so
on. It is the mind that gives you the impressions which make
you say, “She is my wife” or “He is my husband,” etc. Mind
keeps us continually “tap dancing.” If you knew that your wife,
child, etc., are one, if you knew that you never die, never suffer,
etc., you would know you are all-in-all. But the mind is there to
baffle you. Mind says “Beware! She is your wife, they are your
children, etc.” Mind creates these false impressions and makes the
real “I” think itself false. To think “I am body, I am young, old,
I am a man, a woman, I am this or that” are all impressions
created by the mind.
Mind might make one say “I am God,” but cannot make
itself feel “I am God.” So long as mind is there, Ego cannot be
transformed from its false attitude to its real state. Mind thus
also makes you say that you are infinite, all-powerful, and so
forth, but you do not experience it. Why Because mind, which
is made up of false impressions makes you – the real “I” – feel
yourself as the small limited “i.” If the false ego is to have the