The Thief Dresses up as the Policeman Pretending to Help You Catch the Thief

Okay, now this part is like really important. Like, what would be the opposite of no-mind? Mind. But the mind or thinking is not the appearance of thoughts. The mere appearance of thought is not thinking.

Where are you? The mere appearance of thought is not thinking?

Yes, yes. This is a very important point. Just the mere appearance of thoughts is not thinking. Because then, what also many spiritual seekers are trying to do is: 'Shut up, shut the thoughts!'

Once you hear that the mind causes all the trouble and you have to get to the no-mind, then the mind itself will play that game. Who do you feel the same? The mind itself, you see. When the thief dresses up as the policeman, you see, pretending to help you catch the thief. And that is the 'checker guy' or the other devious one who is trying to confuse you, is trying to distract you. So you say, 'Why will this mind never shut up?' That is the mind itself which is posing like that, saying, 'I'm not the mind, I'm your friend. I'm helping you. I'm a spiritual guide, an inner spiritual guide.'

So this is—I'm making light of it, but actually it's a very important point. Many times we feel like the spiritual concepts that we have or the things we've heard in Satsang, that is actually something other than the mind, that is our intuition. We feel that it is so, but it is not. The spiritual mind is still the spiritual mind. And the progress of the spiritual mind, the attainment of the spiritual mind, is the attainment of the spiritual seeker, which is to become a 'spiritual god' and not an enlightened one or a free one. It's a very, very important point which will save you maybe a lot of time, maybe a lot of trouble also.