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50 THE PATH OF LOVE
death of mind also takes place only once. When the mind dies,
the false ego is transformed into Reality. Real ego is never born
and it never dies. Ego is always real, but due to the mind, the ego
feels and acts as the limited and false “I.”
Now mind goes on taking bodies according to its good or
bad impressions. This taking and shedding bodies is not the
death of either the mind or the ego. After the physical death, the
mind remains, with all its accumulated impressions. It is the
impressions which make the mind take bodies so that the
impressions might be experienced in the process of being wiped
out, while the ego remains a witness. Even when you are fast
asleep, the ego and the mind are still there. The impressions
wake you up so that they might be experienced and in the
process get wiped out. This phenomena is also in a way the daily
birth of the body. When one body is dropped, another comes
up; although there is a certain time lag between the giving up of
one body and the taking on of another. In between, there are the
mind-states of heaven, hell, etc. The mind has to die in this
body; thus the Masters have chalked out different ways to attain
this Man-O-Nash or annihilation of the mind during life.
As long as the mind is there the body is also there and there
is continuous action. Only when the mind is at rest, completely
stilled or unconscious, does action stop ninety-nine per cent.
Even then the one per cent of actions continue, such as breathing,
snoring, turning in bed, etc. Thus actions continue and
there is no escape from them. Actions create impressions which
again feed the mind, and so there is no remedy or way for the
ego to rid itself of impressions and experience its Real State. So
the Masters suggested action to kill action, that is, action done