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our problems. Add to this projection the many mental illnesses prevalent today (anxieties, depressions, personality disorders, thought disorders, mood disorders, deliriums, and dementias), and we see the obstacle our mind can be to turning inward to love. Let us look at some of these obstacles.
Thinking about sense objects
Will aach you to sense objects;
Grow aached, and you become addicted;
Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger;
Be angry, and you confuse your mind;
Confuse your mind,
You forget the lesson of experience;
Forget experience, you lose discrimination;
Lose discrimination, and you miss life’s only purpose. (Bhagavad Gita, chap. 2)
Duality
Swami tells us that all is one. The mind, however, sees duality, separateness, and differences. This fundamental delusion of duality is called “maya” in the Hindu philosophy. The mind’s very nature is to compare and contrast, dissect and divide, weigh and measure, to see objects as being separate and discrete. It does not comprehend non-duality. The only way to transcend this separateness, says Swami, is through the uniting power of love. God’s love overcomes the mind’s dual nature. Therefore, we must be ever aware of God’s pure love and hold onto Him dearly. He will take us beyond duality.
The One Behind the Many
Here is the story of how Sai Baba taught a geologist about this inner, unitary, sweet, loving reality beyond mind and duality.2 One day in Puaparthi,3 Baba picked up a rough piece of broken granite and handed it to Dr. Y. J. Rao, head of the Geology Department of Osmania University in Hyderabad,
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