Tarun Pradhaan : The Illusion of Bondage

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welcome to transmissions you will

usually hear this complaint from many

people that they are not free they are

not free to have something or they're

not free to do something or the feel

very very limited and small and it is

their struggle to become something big

to become more free to become more happy

by achieving the things that they think

are going to make them free and happy

what makes us free and what makes us

bound let us examine in detail through

our direct observation let us find the

things that set us free and let us find

that which is binding us which is

limiting us just like before we have

these four options in front of us there

are objects which is the world there is

this body and the mind which also forms

this person and there is this witnessing

consciousness there is nothing else here

we can try to find out of these four

options what is it that is binding us

the objects are bound by forces of

nature by the laws of the nature they

have no freedom there why are there laws

why the why the objects must be bound as

we know the objects are structured they

are organized this world is organized

and this organization itself is the law

without the laws the objects won't

remain objects without this

organizations without this laws the

whole experience of the world will

disappear in an eye blink because there

is a structure because there is

well-formed experience it has to be

bound by laws otherwise there is no

experience

otherwise nothing is meaningful here in

the world so if you think you are the

object then obviously there will be

structure there and that structure will

be bound it will bound by the laws of

the nature there cannot be a freedom

there which you expect that you must

have the body is one such structure

although it is a little bit autonomous

it is not like rock not like a tree

there is a little bit of freedom there

but it still needs food it still needs

air it is part of the ecosystem it

cannot survive without the environment

in any way it decays because of that

trophy another law of the nature it

dissolves back into the environment it

is just another object so if you have

this illusion that I am the body which

is almost a delusion then obviously it

will be bound by the laws obviously

there will be needs of the body

obviously you won't survive it is

subjected to every other law of this

physical world even though it is complex

in it it can sustain itself for 7080

years which is a miracle in itself

because no other object which is so

dynamic and complex can be kept

integrated for such a long time it is a

miracle in itself but still it is bound

because it is structure it cannot be

anything else the structure is that

which binds it and so if there is an

identification with this structure the

body then you are going to feel bound

then you are going to say I am bound

because you think you are the body

because you think you are this complex

object in the whole it so sometimes you

think that I am not good-looking

that is my limitation but it is the body

that is not good

it is appearance in the world it can

look any any way it does not obey your

commands or wishes you can fix it a

little bit but you cannot change it

completely sometimes you think that I am

too short I'm too tall well that is your

limitation because you your body is too

shorter your body is too tall sometimes

you think that I am too fat or am too

skinny

but I'm too weak or I'm not healthy and

I have this disease or I have that

disease that is because the body has all

these limitations not to you remember

there is no you there is no individual

or person there these are merely

thoughts in the mind this is the

identification with the body and that is

the cause of suffering remove this

identification and then the body no

longer limits you you are identified

with the body and therefore it limits

you similarly the mind for example

sometimes you think that you know uneven

language and that becomes your

limitation because and that becomes a

reason for your suffering because you

see other people they are speaking four

or five languages and then you feel

inferior because you never took trouble

to expose yourself to all this

experience languages you are limited by

what you experience in terms of the mind

the mind is a self programming machine

it programs itself as it experiences

that is also called our conditioning so

you are limited by your conditioning if

you think that I am the mind these piles

of conditioning is what you call as

person there is no other person in the

person is not an entity to be found in

reality it is an idea in the mind just

like we saw in our episodes on the

illusion of individuality

there is no person the person is in the

mind person is a bunch of memory is a

pile of memories the memories are there

because your past experiences so the

past experiences that are stored in the

mind they determine how free you are no

experience complete bondage or like rock

if there is a little bit of experience

there is a little bit of freedom to

think something or other if there is a

lot of knowledge there is a lot of

freedom but essentially the mind is also

structure mind is a structure which is

not physical in nature and is bound by

the laws of the mind it is bound by the

non-physical laws and therefore if you

identify that the mind or this person

whatever it is then you are going to

feel bound if there is no identification

with the mind that the mind is doing its

best it is a marvelous machine it is a

miracle of mother nature there is

nothing as complex as the human mind in

this universe but this identification

with this machine makes you bound it

also becomes a cause of suffering

because of the solution of one day

because of your ignorance

I am the mind but I am the things that

are stored stored in the mind I do not

have this thing I do not have that skill

I cannot sing it cannot dance I cannot

do these great things that this

intelligent people do and so on yes they

are limitations but they are limitations

of the mind if you identify with these

limitations then you will be bound

you will feel small you will feel

limited as the experiences grow the

freedom grows with the with the freedom

comes the ability to chew

infinite freedom is infinite number of

choices that is the truth freedom is all

it also means that now the mind is no

more a mind it doesn't become a universe

it has become a universal mind so if you

identify with this Universal Mind

neutral experiencing everything is just

storing everything this universal memory

then you are almost boundless the

problem is you identify with a small

section of this mind which you think is

me you see you say it is my mind and

that is the problem this mine and I in

mind are the limitations they are the

only real limitations actually otherwise

Mother Nature is unlimited even in the

bondage it is unlimited the whole is not

bound by anything it's already like this

this ignorance the I am this tiny thing

in this whole a separate part somehow

magically became separate from the

wholeness now this suffering arises

because of the suppression this

ignorance that I am this tiny bound

miserable thing and I do not know what I

am because this identity keeps shifting

to various things sometimes it is the

objects I am poor I don't have that

things which other people are enjoying

and that is why I'm I'm miserable I am

bound by my poverty this is the bondage

to the objects you think your life is

defined by other objects and that makes

you miserable obviously because your

identification with the whole is broken

and that causes this suffering that

makes your life hell which is otherwise

heavenly which is otherwise perfect

similarly if you identify with a small

part of the memory

now this universal mind and you say that

I am limited by this mind

they cannot do this I cannot even think

this are think that because I'm limited

and stupid immediate half-baked theories

there is there will be this suffering

there will be this delusion that I am

bound the reason is ignorance the reason

is the identification the reason is you

think that you are something why the

reality is it is an illusion you are not

something you are not any experience

that brings us to this experience so the

witnessing consciousness the emptiness

that is witnessing these experiences of

the mind of the body and of the objects

of other people and the world and the

universe in everything

what is it bound by it has no shape it

has no structure it is simple witnessing

it is simple experiencing and an act of

being aware that is all there is it is

not bound by any laws because it is

empty it does not need to maintain a

structure there it was not born so it is

eternal it is not subjected to time

because time is also an illusion created

by the mind the objects the body and the

mind they are under the law of the time

consciousness is beyond time as we saw

in the synthesis where in the part on

the illusion of the time an illusion of

space it is beyond time and space this

witnessing consciousness it has no

beginning and it has no end it is the

only thing that is experiencing all the

things it does not need to make choices

because everything is happening in

consciousness all choices at been

expressed in consciousness it is not

bound by any choice it already has in

amounts of choices they are all being

expressed it is a dance of perpetual

choosing that is whatever experiences

that is what the consciousness is

choosing it it has chosen everything

with the HUS that is the ultimate limit

of freedom if you choose something over

other things you are still bound by

choice that is why the mind is limited

that is why the mind feels as if it is

bound because it can only choose one

thing it is conditioning forces it to

choose only one choice out of infinite

choices but the consciousness allows all

choices the consciousness is free to

choose everything it wants to experience

everything so it chooses everything and

that is why there is good there is bad

there is darkness there is brightness

there is suffering there is joy it is

chosen everything it has chosen duality

it's it never says no to anything that

is the unconditional love there is the

only relation that's possible all of the

relations whether a bondage or of

freedom ignorant they do not exist as it

exists only as a ujin's the

consciousness has no relation it is not

bound and therefore is completely free

if you decide defy with that which is

bound there not about isn't your

identification is cause of all of your

bondage why would you choose bondage

instead of freedom the freedom is always

here you are the consciousness you are

this witness of all the duality in all

the limitations in all the infinite

expanse of the creation and this

you are here always as thus witness

empty pure an eternal timeless why did

you choose something which is petty

inferior bound by the time decaying and

a permanent what prompted you to do that

you were given this whole expense of the

sky to fly into and it shows a prison

probably because of the security it

offers but that security is also loosely

are you really secure in this prison

that you have chosen for yourself

whether it is a prison of this world

this point is also prison it's not

boundless it is bound by the laws or

whether it is a prison of this body

which is just a structure this filthy

hairless stainless monkey suit

probably you like it very much but it is

the cause of bondage it is a prison

prison of the body why did you take it

up or if you've chosen this non-material

prison of the mind where you are limited

by your own beliefs your own

conditioning that is not really yours it

is being stuffed by the society in your

mind nothing is yours you think your

body is yours well no there is only

relation with the body which is of the

bondage that is why it looks like that

it is yours let the body go set the body

free then is it is it yours isn't it

already doing what it does in spite of

your delusion that it is mine or it is

me the body is free to do whatever it

wants to do the problem is you you want

it to be something else which it cannot

be it is bound a bound structure too

late is already what it is is already an

expression of the infinite why would you

like why do why would you want it to

become something else according to your

limited intelligence which is just

conditioning there is no intelligence

there in your mind actually it is what

people have stuffed into your mind you

think is intelligence

the real intelligence is knowing what

you are

but being what you are Israa forcing

that which you are not that is stupidity

out of the signals and all of this

poison being stuffed into our minds by

the ignorant people we have chosen

prison for ourselves the prison of

objects of bodies of ideas of concepts

of beliefs superstitions whatnot there

are many many layers of ignorance and

every layer is bound with something or

the other

every layer is limited by something or

the other this was a very small analysis

you can do a extensive analysis of what

binds you and you will always find that

it is a case of identification with that

which is bound you are not bound you are

free you are freedom of yourself there

is no separate you apart from the

freedom that you are it is not that you

are something in that that has freedom

you are the freedom you do not have a

structure as soon as there is a

structure there is bondage this is the

law you are a witness of all the

structures you are a witness of all the

forms you are not form you are formless

so you are boundless

your timeless so your eternal you do not

decay into anything there's nothing to

decay into you are witness of all the

appearances and disappearances that that

are happening on your screen of

consciousness you allow everything

therefore you have all choices you have

a finite choices and you do not oppose

anything you are not disgusted by

anything and so you are the

unconditional love you are the infinite

love you don't need to love one thing or

the other thing call it mine

this gives me pleasure so it is I love

it

this gives me something so I hate it

there is not your nature there is the

nature of the mind

it has preferences your consciousness

prefers everything which means it does

not have any preferences it is the

witness of all preferences also it is

not bound by any preference that is why

it is possible for you to love

everything because your nature is love

it is not that you are something which

loves something else your nature is

oneness with everything you are

everything and therefore the love comes

naturally you are looking for freedom

you are looking for liberation

especially the spiritual kinds they are

looking for the Nirvana or Mukti

are you not that already why do you

think you are bound and you need to do

something to get out of the bondage the

world will always remain bound you

cannot take away the laws and you know

it's impossible if you take up with the

laws the void will disintegrate into

something meaningless the body will

remain bound because it is another

object in the world it is bound by the

biochemistry and physical laws also if

you take away those laws they won't

anybody even if you make it very strong

and beautiful and longer-lasting and

young it is still bound they still going

to produce pain and it will decay into

something else if you try to free the

mind well there is a big possibility

here but as long as there is the

structure of the mind as long as it is

bound by its own memories its own

experiences it will remain a structure

no structure no mind the laws of the

mind is the structure of the mind it is

not that the mind is something different

in it it is obeying some laws

no it has self-organized itself using

its tendencies self organizing

principles give rise to laws it's looks

like it is obeying them but it is only

organizing itself the structure of the

mind is the laws the structure of the

mind limits the mind the memory limits

the mind you can expand it there is a

lot of possibility here much better

bigger than the body but it is still

going to remain bound as long as there

is this belief that I am the small

section of the mind I am NOT the

universal mind then it will remain a

small section of the mind it is not

going to become free and you do not need

to do anything to become the universal

mind it is already there the whole

universe is aligned as we saw in our

past episode it is all might really your

identification with a small part of it

is the cause of your bondage to the

cause of suffering it's the cause of

your thinking miss that I need to free

the mind I need to liberate the mind

which is me it is not you cannot be

liberated that is the truth that is the

reality you are already liberated all

you need to do is kick out this false

identification with the stuff that you

think you are when you destroy your

identification of all kinds then you

become what you are which you already

are you are already free your boundless

the net one is here the liberation is

here the Mukti and the moksha is here

right now right here you have this

choice you become free in the becoming

free does not involve doing anything it

involves undoing which you have done

here you have accumulated a lot of that

bench you accumulate a lot of ignorance

in your minds that is producing this

illusion of bondage

all you need to do is clean up leave

clean the garbage in your mind see what

you are see what you are already through

the lenses of your direct experience and

logic and rationality do not be

influenced by the ignorant bound people

they're slaves of their structures that

they have identified with you were born

in such a society which is which is

bound by nature you see if there are no

rules if there are no laws there won't

be any society so the society tries to

keep you and the bondage and they

unknowingly probably they are not bad

people you see but they're ignorant

people they unknowingly stuff these kind

of beliefs in your mind but you are one

of us

no you're not one of them you are

everything already they are one of you

they are one of your forms the whole

humanity and all the creatures are your

forms you are expressing yourself your

will your freedom through all the forms

there is what you watch that is what is

your direct experience that is not a

conditioning there is not a belief that

is not a superstition that is how you

know yourself to be when you unlock your

full potential you will see that the

full potential is already being

expressed you just wake up wake up open

your eyes and see what you are if you

think you're bound you are bound and if

you think you are liberated you are

liberated you're free it is just a

matter of heart it is just a matter of

point of view you have taken a small

point of view that is why you become

small realize your greatness

Rilla is your vastness is unlimited you

are unlimited

you are the pure consciousness which has

no limits cannot be bound is impossible

for you to be bound thank you very much

for listening

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