The Mind Is Designed To Misrepresent

Now, what tool will you use to verify this? If you go to the mind and say, “Hey! He is saying it is that simple and I am also seeming to be fine with that. What do you think?”, what do you feel the mind will say? It might say either way, actually. Sometimes it might say, “Very good, very good, you’ve done very well — but what did you actually find?” This comes. So, don’t bother with it either way because it is not about any interpretation from the mind. The mind cannot interpret this — and who was saying in Satsang the other day? — it can’t interpret anything. It doesn’t have a valid representation of even the tiniest aspect of the manifest, forget the un-manifest. If it did, then no two would have differing opinions, and everybody would say this is what everything is. There would be no such thing as a debate or argument. But because we are not able to translate anything through this instrument, that’s why in the world there is so much confusion, suffering, debates, arguments about everything. There is no area of the world which is not debatable because no concept actually really captures anything. So, neither is it a valid depiction of that which appears, and of course, it is completely far out when it comes to depicting that which is beyond appearing and disappearing. So, what is our end goal? Is it to satisfy this intellect, this mind? Because that’s the treadmill that you can run on forever. So, if the end goal is to satisfy this mind, then the mind is designed to (in a way designed to) misrepresent both the appearance and the reality in which it appears. So, what is the end goal? I should have asked this first thing when everyone came to Satsang. What is the end goal?

[Repeating] The mind has to give up on understanding. What about this: You give up on the mind. Suppose you had a device, these new devices like Alexa, which always had an answer for everything but none of its answers were accurate. So, now does Alexa has to now give up on trying to represent the world or you have to give up on Alexa? Alexa is not giving the right answer so at least it should keep quiet — is it like that? Or, you say that this one is just misrepresenting the world, it’s not reliable. What is the end goal? Like: Alexa has to keep quiet. Like: Alexa! Silence! Or, is it that whatever it may say it is okay because it doesn’t bother you because you have realised that it is not pointing to any Truth; it is not pointing to any accuracy, any validity. And, this example is not as strange as it may sound because at best, the mind is like this device, which is a bundle of concepts — as Bhagwan [Sri Ramana Maharishi] said, ‘a bundle of thorns’ — programmed to answer to the programmed questions. That's called conditioning. So, when will we be free of condition? When we can let go of anything that the mind might be representing as Truth because actually now you have seen that it does a pretty terrible job of representing Truth. And the other thing you recognise is that ‘I am the Truth’ which is beyond any representation. You realise that you are It so you don’t need that answer which the mind may be giving.