3 as one book - Kirpal Singh

I 60MEDITATIONthis outer world that it has not only forgotten the worldswithin but has forgotten its own source-the BrahmandiMind. Instead of controlling the senses it is now subjectto them and thus constantly wanders from one subject toanother without anything to rest upon. If by good luckit is comparatively free from the anxieties of life andhears of the worlds within and occasionally has a pointglimpse of the mere outskirts of these worlds, then insteadof going in and bearing mastery over them, it isalas!-heldout by "fame, the last infirmity of nobleminds," as Milton calls it. The fame and honor givenby people keep it out just as much as ears are held bysweet music, and the eye is held by attractive objects. Inthe guise of doing good to others it deceives itself and inignorance knows not that the valuable time is being lost.First know thyself and then preach. It is not proper toteach of a thing when one has not the first-hand knowledgeof it."'Step by step the Master is opening up new vistas ofright understanding by telling us what the root cause ofthis misconception is. He says that it is foolish for thehuman mind to be attached to outer fancies, infatuatedby the colorful shell, and caring little for the sweet kernelwithin. The mind may be likened to a parasiticalplant which has no roots of its own, but draws its sustenancefrom the host tree to which it tenaciously holds.In exactly the same way, the mind in itself has no separateexistence per se, but is a sheer projection of one'smental make-up and is inextricably mixed up with thesense objects, through the senses. It, at its lowest level, is