Thread: Do we have an eternal mind ?

Just because you read something in a book, and it sounds wise, doesn't mean it's true. Ask yourself what reason you have for believing it, if there is any reason beyond the fact that someone told you it's true.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

Just because you read something in a book, and it sounds wise, doesn't mean it's true. Ask yourself what reason you have for believing it, if there is any reason beyond the fact that someone told you it's true.

Well, here Sivananda is a realized master who did heavy penance near the Ganga river in Rishikesh for 10 years in a hut, he realized Brahman, Nirguna Brahman and I believe him if he says that it is difficult to stay in the highest goal of human life, so that brought me back to the mind as something eternal, actually, it brought me peace of mind, because now I know I don't have to endevour for Nirguna Brahman which is difficult to attain (because you have to fight and destroy the mind) and then after this battle you cannot even stay in the end of human life, Nirguna Brahman, so I am not going that way anymore.

It feels more peaceful for me now to accept that I am in a circle of lives, my past lives and my future lives, I have accepted that I will die and be born over and over again because I cannot and don't want to get rid of the mind anymore, you see, the reason I listen to the Vedic Sages is that I am coming to India since 1998 and in 1997 I read my first spiritual book, The Bhagavat Gita as it is by Srila Prabhupada. I got stuck in Indian thought schools and never tried to get anything from different schools. So I know the books of India, but am unaware of most of the thoughts people have here on this forum or even in life, like friends.