Tarun Pradhaan : The Illusion of Individual

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welcome to transmissions when we

introduce ourselves we usually say our

name the hi becomes the name and usually

there is a place where this guy lives

usually there is a profession which this

is sometimes it becomes the gender

sometimes it becomes the relation I'm

the son of this and that I am the wife

of this person sometimes it becomes the

nature of the person angry happy

sometimes it becomes the intellectual

capabilities of the person I'm an artist

a writer

scientist or engineer sometimes it

becomes the race creed or community or

even the language groups for some crazy

kind of people those who are spiritual

kind it becomes some kind of

metaphysical entities I'm the sole

multi-dimensional being of some kind

what is this I the people associate with

these various experiences or beefs

when I say I am sitting this ayah is

referring to the body actually the body

is sitting and the association is with

the body when I say I am healthy I am

sick or I am sleeping this associations

are with the body when I introduce

myself in the society the association is

with the name family and profession and

so on in the social context when I am on

the spiritual path and the association

is with the ego or the mind or any kind

of metaphysical entities out there for

those who are called enlightened

self-aware or awakened the association

of the eye shafts to your consciousness

that is witnessing all these experiences

this eye is also known as the identity

or the individual in fact when you look

at the society there are as many

individuals as there are bodies so most

commonly the identity he is associated

with the body but it keeps changing as

you have just seen gets associated with

many things and we can say that the

individual is actually sum total of

these things the individual is not only

a body of a specific kind the human body

of the human animal kind and individual

is also his given name or race or record

star language of his qualifications his

education his the proficiency skills his

intellectual abilities and so on his

spiritual identity and so on we can

combine all these associations and we

can say that it is the individual now so

far so good the individual still exists

but let us take a look at this thing

called individual which looks so solid

and so real when you are not looking at

it when Association is really made with

the body we can see that the body is not

the same it was one year old child it

was the 10 year old child and then it

was 20 year old young man a woman where

it became adult and then

it became old the body did not stay the

body that you were associated with is

already gone it is changing

second-by-second and when I'm supporting

which part of the body am i referring to

actually which particular organ in the

body is me because if you cut off one of

the limbs are let us say transplant an

organ from somewhere else it is not

going to change the I I persist the

individual versus and we now start

calling the new body the new

configuration of the body as the same

individual who had the same name the

names also keep changing you can assume

any name you want the profession keeps

changing you can have any skill any

profession you can master any art you

can master more than one art the

relations they keep changing except

probably the relation of blood like your

mother and father but sometimes we get

surprised when our parents tell us that

you were adopted

and then this association of the

relation and individual can also break

the attitudes the nature of the person

keeps changing the emotions may come and

go every second even the metaphysical

stuff if you believe in that keeps

changing

it was never the same and now we see

that these done with flow of qualities

of many many entities in many many

concepts is an individual now you can

already see that it is becoming fuzzy it

is not it is not so solid now you can

see it now it is ever-changing it is a

collection of concepts and forms which

are also changing where is the

individual now

you will you can say that okay I can

remember what these things are even if

they are changing then I have that I can

reassociate the individual with the

changed qualities changed entities and

so on so it boils down to memory and now

you can suspect where we are going with

the individual no memory no individual

the individual is in the mind the

individual is only a memory just like

everything else that we have seen in the

series so far in the space the time the

suffering the physical world

everything was just memory just mind

concepts in the mind and so is this

individual it is a collection of

changing concepts you will say no the

body is solid but we have already seen

that objects are only in the mind domme

objects exist in the mind as perceptions

yes entries in the memory there is no

other object out there this body is an

object is a changing object and it is

illusory we can immediately see that the

concept of individual is twice as

removed from reality because the body is

just one layer of illusion but if you

add an individual on the clearer it

becomes doubly removed from the illusion

if you the mind is an illusion the mind

is a collection of memorized data and if

you collect them until another concept

of an individual it becomes twice as

removed from the reality so not only the

individual is an illusion it is doubly

so why do we need this concept this is

the obvious question what is what is

this activity of the mind achieving and

the answer is very simple

idea of an individual stag of identity

on everything this body binders ensures

the survival of the body mind survival

is the biggest need of the body mind and

it has come up with the strategy to

collect all the activities all the

processes of this body mind which is a

collection of many things actually an

identity under an individual and it is

given it a name also the second thing is

our society cannot function if there are

no individuals if somebody steals have

several murders whom are you going to

blame if there is no individual so

people lock up this body and say that

the individual did these nasty things

and the body suffers because of what the

mind did whatever actions the mind

planned if there is no individual who is

going to eat whom are you gonna pay whom

are you going to elect your president

the whole society is based on this very

elaborate idea of there being an

individual our lives are based on this

idea of there being an individual so it

has become a part of this transactional

reality as you call it let's become a

part of this relative reality and we

simply assume that there is an

individual when we look at somebody we

see on the body we do not see the

individual we infer from the actions

voice and the nature of the body there

is some something there which is

consistent with the past actions of the

body although they keep changing with

the change so slowly that the mind gets

an opportunity to integrate those

changes into it its current definition

of the

usual so even though the individual this

body my complex keeps changing everyday

we keep updating our database the

changes for example the person that you

knew as your friend was very kind and

very loving and will jolly fellow

something happened and he turned into a

bitter person now he's very angry and

almost criminal but you know that he is

the same individual you do not say that

I don't recognize him but your mind has

integrated the new features into the

definition of this individual so if you

erase the past from your memory you will

find that the new individual is totally

okay there is no doubt in your mind that

there is an individual however this

proves that the other individual other

other people they are also in our

memories they are also an integrated

database in our memories you can change

the body also let us let's say you can

your wife gets a plastic surgery

cosmetic surgery and you cannot

recognize him now but from her voice or

from her attitudes from her behavior and

nature you can easily conclude that she

is your wife now your mind will update

the data then your mind will add a new

face on to this personality the old

personality and the life continues with

the individual getting updated she is

the same individual for you although

everything almost everything has changed

about that unusual we live in this

perpetual illusions of their being an

individual not only we think that I am

this individual which is changing flow

of phenomena we also think that there

are other individuals there are other

people

out there there are also just a flow in

this universal mind just a flow in this

illusory world and our societies are

actually based on this these realities

of their being individuals Society is

three times removed from the reality and

there is no wonder that it's in bad

shape because nobody knows what what's

going on everybody is deluded everybody

is under the spell of Maya under the

spell of illusion that is why most of

the humanity

most of these body mind creatures they

are miserable they are unhappy they are

ignorant they are fearful and angry

their pressure comes from identification

with the individual or identification

with this body or some other part of the

memory there is no happiness there is no

real happiness there is no bliss

whenever you look because everybody is

deluding themselves the thing they have

separate the thing that better they are

in control they are in charge of this

individual which is this flowing on the

mercy of Mother Nature the mercy of

these mental processes which the mother

nature is only the last kind which I

can't crazy which I think is the most

same kind of person on this planet a

spiritually awakened person compared to

him everybody he is totally mad an

awakened person who knows that there is

no individual he is not deluded he's

totally acting as an individual fully

knowing that it is an illusion that

gives him the correct sense to act in

the society also seeing everybody has

not individuals but as this pure

consciousness which has taken in these

forms

corrects our behavior automatically we

do not need a things we do not need

reward and Punishment systems of the

society we can actually very naturally

seeing that there are no individuals

there is just one hole who leads this

made of artificial ethics our rules or

laws why do we need these are artificial

constructs in the society because nobody

knows what they are everybody thinks

that they are individuals look at the

individual and it will dissolve if you

are not still convinced that there is no

individual I have a very nice trick you

just start describing the individual and

everything about the unusual will point

to memory locations in your mind

everything points to some or other

memory individual is a concept in the

mind is a collection of many behaviors

many things many experiences experiences

that are that the mind is integrating

into one thing the third thing that

convinces us that there is an individual

is the brainwashing the conditioning

that is imposed upon our mind by the

society who is deluded the delusion is

passed on to the infant your mother will

point your body and say that it is you

and the very early maturing would the

child starts associating the

individuality with the body so if the

child it's hurt if there is no

individual there is just a sensation of

pain and the child knows nothing but to

cry except crying but then the mother

comes and says look at your feet look at

your knees

it is they are bleeding you fell down

and you are hurt and there is

association that is formed in the mind

of mind of a child I am this thing which

is hurt which is bleeding which is

speeding as you grow up the society

gives you a name the society gives you a

caste raised in nationality all that

garbage you are you it's a specific kind

of gender and you have all these kind of

burdensome identities your government

gives you passport or identity card now

by the age of 2025 you are totally

trapped in this garbage that you call

individual it is this garbage in your

mind that is stuffed by the society you

also point to the other body minds and

say that they are individual and you

also go to this extent that you blame

them for their actions if there is no

individual who is acting this is another

illusion

there is no actor because there is

nobody to act the actions are happening

the experiences are coming then the mind

associate associates in actions of these

organisms that it sees experiences into

an individual and assigns responsibility

an actor to those actions and I am NOT

saying that this is totally useless it

is very very useful for survival if you

do not know who you are as an individual

the body might won't know whom to feed

whom to protect whom to defend and who

must reproduce with whom the mother

won't take care of the child and she

does not see the child as an individual

separate from the environment and the

child won't recognize the mother if the

child won't see the mother as

another individual a special individual

who ensures his or her survival and we

formed groups we formed tribes and their

function is again survival we are a

tribal kind of animal we are a group

herd animal and the whole herd takes on

an individuality you must have noticed

this and they attack other groups other

tribes because they are competing for

survival with the other tribes this is

the whole trauma of society no doubt no

wonder these individuals are miserable

the thing they're acting the thing that

others are acting the thing that their

tribes their groups their communities

they exist the thing that I exist as

this body mind is a bunch of memories

and experiences they are insane actually

the one who is awakened the one who has

realized that there is no individual is

called enlightened because then the

light of awareness shines on this

activity of the mind it is discarded but

it is kept as a mechanism for survival

now the survival is no more a burden

because it is being done by this

organism it is not being done by me if

it survives fine if it does not it's ok

business as usual nobody survives here

you will die if even if you are an

individual you will die even if you see

net this thing that diet is a part of

the whole the flowing whole which

appears on the screen of pure

consciousness pure emptiness zero

dimensional screen where this play is

being played of individuality

without individuality there will not be

any experience

individuality is a limitation and

limitation is what gives us this

experience so that question is now yes

there is no individual should I stop

behaving like an individual should I

kill this thing cause the body mind or

something because it's not real this is

half enlightenment this is worse than

enlightenment actually do not do

anything stupid it is what it is

it is an illusion and it will continue

even if you have these kind of thoughts

it will continue and will continue in

other forms so what we see is that this

individuality is actually a gift from

this consciousness to in order to enable

this kind of experience of limitedness

because I am the consciousness which is

infinite there is no way to know what I

am

unless then limit myself in a form and I

assume that this farm has a life of its

own so that it can protect itself so

then it can feed itself and reproduce

this is the trick you felt for this

trick this is my own trick but I've

forgotten this have taken the separate

individual the illusion of the

individual as myself and I've forgotten

the architect of this individual that is

watching silently time that watcher

actually I am NOT the individual the

individual is a means to gain

experiences for these things the

individual is an illusion the individual

appears and disappears and when who is

witnessing this illusion of

individuality illusion of identity of

person

I was never born the person was born and

it will die because it was born because

it changes and that which witnesses this

birth and death of this illusory entity

does not last but the experience never

ends the I stays the real I is my real

nature which is pure consciousness

Nachman that is witnessing the play of

individuality and that

thank you very much for listening

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