The Mind Is Not Real - Ignore It! by Annamalai Swami

[@mastersofeternity]

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[@DorisReidl]

Thanks. ❤ I love it. Pointing to truth is a constant remembering who we are 🥳 It is really helpfull❣️Thank you so much for this channel and that you are doing this 😍😛❤🙏🙏🙏

[@mastersofeternity]

@@DorisReidl Gratitude!! Lots of Light

[@niopng]

Remember, my friends: only YOU are aware, no form (thought, mind, emotion) can be aware, they can only be "aware of"; in fact, there is no form other than YOU, pure consciousness.

[@parthpawar]

❤

[@ur0809]

I just got it now😍🙏

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Okay, but consciousness is formless.

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

There is no such thing as self-realization. WHAT IS already IS, and IT has never been otherwise, will never be otherwise. No “body” ever wakes up or becomes enlightened.

[@niopng]

@@ferdinandalexander8053Yes, no form is real, the real has no form, similar to the formless space and the objects within it as an analogy. ❤

[@tiagocastro8049]

5 minutes of condense simple but extremely profunde wisdom! That is Advaita Vedanta !! Straight to the point! I started to practice everyday afirmations "I am not the Body, I am not the mind!" saying with intention and consciente is more strong than just repeating words! Inhale ....i am not the body...exhale i am not the mind! I will add ...consciousness alone exist ! Gratitude raises my vibration and always send in a feeling of surrender Unconditional love to all sentient and non sentient beings in the Universe! May all end suffering soon and be has one in the unconditional love of the ultimate reality ! Peace and realization to you all !

[@jefftemplin778]

“Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” - A Course in Miracles. Namaste

[@macarius8802]

Very nice!

[@DorisReidl]

And so it is 😛💜🕉️☮️💟

[@AllOrNothing35427]

Thank you so very much for making this teaching available to us!

[@franzhaas5597]

Before you get rid of something, you first have to know what it is. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[@chetsenior7253]

Not really. I was sick with something. Could have been a number of things. I got better.

[@richardsnyder6413]

Gratitude 🙏 ❤

[@gireeshneroth7127]

So is the mind's dream world. Unreal. Unreal mind lives an unreal dream of subject and object woven out of the mind itself s. Exclusively a mental world of the mind alone.. You are a universal mind living an individual mind.

[@Coral-h4c1]

Nice video

[@mulen-x8u]

If mind isn't real, body also isn't real. It seems to me for awakening we have to realize the unreality of mind, body and world simultaneously.

[@macarius8802]

Focus on your mentality (mind) first as it comes before everything else (body and world). Because as long as body or world is seen there is a viewer (mind) needed to see/know it. Bhagavan advises to deal with the root of the tree instead of the leaves. Hope that helps. Peace.

[@Geetanjali-inspired]

Yes body too isn't real... do hear Nirvana Shatakam 6 Verses of Adi shankarcharya ji all REAL & UNREAL is answered in those 6 verses.... God bless all....

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

No ‘body’ ever awakes. What is, is already awake and has never been otherwise.

[@Ionlydategoodgirls]

Body and world feel as though are real because of the mind

[@MM-dh3wr]

@@Geetanjali-inspiredevidence not book chapters

[@Micha-q7t]

Great video! 👏🏻👏🏻😊🙏🏻

[@mastersofeternity]

Gratitude 😊🙌🏼

[@ur0809]

While you become aware of your thoughts, our identification with thought goes away. We can distance ourselves from it. Then you see it has no strength or power. It just has to disappear. From that itself we can understand the nature of mind. It gets life when we identify with it. Be AWARE... every moment. 😍😍🙏🙏

[@virajs-o5v]

True but how ??

[@chris777c2]

🔥🔥🔥

[@texastexas4541]

The mind is part this nature but illusion within the mind is something else.

[@chetsenior7253]

How is that not nature? Nature is full of illusions.

[@texastexas4541]

@@chetsenior7253 Everything is an illusion. Let us stand in front of a running train and see what happens.

[@johnlawrence2757]

It’s true :- the mind is the source of all distraction and temptation. Consciousness identifies purely with the Self and the self thus conjoined becomes cosmic itself. But overcoming the tendency to temptation takes many long years of dedication

[@chetsenior7253]

How is the mind not part of self?

[@johnlawrence2757]

@ self is composed of a number of components at the level of gross material existence. The Self consists of Pure Consciousness with none of these components. Yoga is the process by which self sheds all its material aspects including mind to assimilate to Pure Consciousness

[@Michadoel]

❤

[@MM-dh3wr]

Prana activating the mind and mind controls the prana….loop

[@3sotericCompassionist1976]

AWARENESS =WILL ... non-local non-dual

[@markf2720]

Without the music, the video would be excellent

[@mastersofeternity]

Thank you for the feedback😊🙏

[@veloopity]

Agreed

[@ferdinandocoluccelli9574]

The video *IS* anyway excellent 😊

[@mastersofeternity]

@@ferdinandocoluccelli9574 Gratitude

[@mikehardy3823]

💚🙏

[@stewartthomas4193]

Everyone knows the allegory of the cave told by Plato. Told in modern terms it can be compared to someone playing a X-Box game, where the player believes they are the character on the screen. These are the ones trapped inside the cave that are subjected to the socialisation of consciousness. Rules of the game. Withdraw into Yourself and look. By practising mind control/ stilling the mind your awareness/ consciousness rises into the 4th dimension/light/Self. Enlightenment. Practice is the sole criterion for testing Truth.

[@nypala]

That means ignore trauma as well?

[@BillieChristine-d5c]

I don't feel you should ignore trauma, but face the feelings and allow healing. I can only speak from my own experience...sitting with the feelings and emotions only, while letting go of the thought forms from the trauma is how you heal it. Meditation and breathing is all I did with intention of letting go. I am free now.

[@nypala]

@@BillieChristine-d5c i totally agree with you. As I'm writing this I'm walking out of my weekly therapy session. I've been neglecting the importance of therapy for years, and the reason is that I was exposed to teachings like "your mind is not real, do not care about it". We should leave the Upanishads to the initiated, they are not meant for the common people.

[@BillieChristine-d5c]

@@nypala Eastern teachings have helped me greatly, but we have to live our Dharma as a westerner. I will say for me, Neem Karoli Baba's, ( Ram Dass' guru) teachings led me back To Jesus Christ. (Freedom/Love/Peace). Neem Karoli Baba ( Maharaji) teachings are, it's all One. Only God's love is real. He said to his followers to meditate like Jesus and when they asked him how Jesus meditated he only said to them people don't understand he never died. So us common people have Jesus. He told the Westerners that. He died in that way because in order for us to wake up, we also have to close our eyes and surrender fully. We are common people yes, but we have the potentiality to awaken to the Divine truth which is our kingdom of heaven within which is freedom which is peace which is love you got this we got this! Blessings

[@Pandanarang528]

​@@BillieChristine-d5cI'm still in the process of letting go , it is not easy though..

[@BillieChristine-d5c]

@@Pandanarang528 I totally understand. I started my healing journey 5 years ago and I'm now 47 it gets easier and better I promise.

[@zatoichiable]

Whati is real?

[@mastersofeternity]

Behind all forms the only reality is God. 🙏🏻❤️

[@kaushikghosh5469]

God is just concept.

[@alansigglekow]

If your mind tell s you crossing a main open higher speed road that a 60 ton truck is about to hit you ,DO NOT IGNORE IT ,AS THE PAIN OF IGNORING YOUR MIND ,MAY SEEM ,VERY VERY REAL.

[@mastersofeternity]

The central point is that, in situations of real danger (like the truck coming towards you), the mind is useful and should be listened to, as it is alerting you to a threat. This is a legitimate survival reaction. However, Annamalai Swami's teachings talk about not identifying with the mind when it generates unfounded thoughts and fears, such as worries or anxieties that are not real. The mind can create many wrong ideas, but we don't need to hold on to them. The key is to discern when the mind is being useful (as in the truck example) and when it is creating illusions, and acting in accordance with reality, not the mind's fears or fantasies.

[@alansigglekow]

Humanity forget there is a god and there are devil s who can put thought s into our mind s to keep us in addiction s ,react to a situation in an unlawful way to make us suffer , it is wisdom before acting or reacting to police thought s and see if they are your s, on can achieve this in these micro moment s by not thinking ,and the demon s voice well be noticed ,alpha omega.

[@sandeeprevankar2252]

Then what is consciousness? Isn't one conscious through the mind itself?

[@mastersofeternity]

While the mind creates the sensation that we are "aware" of something through perception and thought, true consciousness is non-individual and not linked to mental processes. When a person identifies with the mind, he believes that consciousness is just a product of the mind. However, when one recognizes the "true Self" or "I am" that is beyond the mind, one realizes that consciousness is what has always been present, independent of the mind. It is, therefore, the immutable basis of human experience, and not something that arises or is limited by the mind.

[@sandeeprevankar2252]

Again the reply is also using the mind or what is taught isn't it? Recognising/realising words used in understanding True Self which is immutable experience ( I don't see this happening atleast to me or people who are immersed in it) ....mind can imagine/create any experience ..Is true self and experience?

[@Farhad-ik7zi]

In the video, he tries to tell you all the time that the mind does not exist, but he says, "Remember and keep this in this mind." But the mind does not exist. How should you keep his sayings in the mind? contradiction

[@mastersofeternity]

That is a very insightful observation! The apparent contradiction arises from the way we use language and concepts. When Annamalai Swami talks about "keeping this in mind", he is referring to a process of contemplation and reflection. It is a way of connecting with the truth about the nature of mind and reality, even if ultimately that connection is illusory. The idea is that while we are in the state of identification with the mind, we can use the mind to dismantle the belief in its own reality. So this practice of remembering that "I am not the mind" is a tool, a means of coming to the deeper understanding that the mind actually has no substance. Once this understanding deepens, the very notion of "mind" as something separate and real dissolves. It is a paradox that is part of the spiritual journey - we use the mind to transcend the mind itself.

[@Farhad-ik7zi]

Thank you for your explanation and clarification. I agree with you that the mind is only made of thoughts, and "I" / ego itself is a thought and can be observed by consciousness. Therefore, I am not the mind

[@Geetanjali-inspired]

​@@mastersofeternity thank you so beautifully you explained someone's contradictory statement on keep in mind....thank u...

[@baronbullshyster2996]

It’s not the mind because the mind is your servant. But believe is the weasel

[@davemakk195]

Really? 😳

[@mastersofeternity]

Yes! The mind often distracts us with worries and illusions, making us lose sight of our true essence. When we begin to understand this, we can seek a deeper connection with ourselves and with God, who is the only reality.

[@chetsenior7253]

Then neither is this guys speech. I’m not sure what his lack of self awareness is, but it’s something.

[@AnandDeonarine]

Anything you think is mind so dont think become mindless .that is the i am .awareness of who ambi the answer is nothing

[@user-hb5qs7sy2v]

Opps you just blew it I am not the mind, iam not the mind is the continuation of it and the example you accedently gave was when you fell into the trap of substituting mind for conscious ness Thats mind too There is nothing you can do without tricking yourself again Oh but you spiritualist are so smug in your self trickery… feeling like you know something special…Soooohhhh spooky Consciousness is just the emination of live sensation and so only sensation is there…so thats the life of the body…. Thats it… no mind no spirit no consciousness or phyc , so no mind” ends all spiritually exposing what that is- Emagination, the activity of thought, and thought does not exist in its own right…like conscious, it the emination or just tha outcome of body sensation Thats it!! Your just an animal that invented its own tool for further dellusion and that invention is thought mind or what ever else you want to call it None of you spiritualist can seem to leave it alone…. You partially realise no mind only to reinvent it as consciousness What if theres only what exist of its own right without the emagining or aid of thought Ah but then we are not so important We are reduced to animal that thinks its smarter and more important ithan other animals And whats an animal The some total of organic animated parts or animated dust of the natural world Try it Can you concieve of or sense anything more than this without imagination / thought Thete you have the delima of the idiotic animal who imagines sees and experiences itself and the world other than how these are Opps, just noticed how smart i think i am See….no way out Where stuck with the dellusion Let me out Let me out 😊

[@happyfreeky]

Plot twist: this video isn't real

[@Magik1369]

Of course the mind is real. The mind is known by science and has been studied by a dozen disciplines. G-d created the mind. To call the mind not real is to insult the Creator and Source. It is a foolish and destructive belief and meme that the mind is not real. Whoever said that surely was not enlightened.

[@adithya1012]

This comment shows u are clearly in ignorance

[@mastersofeternity]

When Annamalai Swami says that "the mind is not real," he is referring to the idea that the mind, with its thoughts, emotions and perceptions, often creates an illusion of reality. In Vedanta philosophy and many spiritual traditions, the mind is seen as an obstacle to realizing the true nature of the self, which is considered eternal and unchanging. The mind distracts us and makes us identify with the ego, leading to a sense of separation. By recognizing that the mind and its contents are not the essence of who we are, we can begin to awaken to a deeper, truer reality.

[@chetsenior7253]

Lucky for you, god only exists in your mind.