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the divine mind is not your mind, it is not the mind that we know about. The divine mind is exactly the absence of our mind. As far as our mind is concerned, it is a barrier to the divine mind; it has to go. From our side we have to become no-minds, utterly empty, and then the divine mind descends in us. We have to become a vacuum; that vacuum is immediately filled.
The mind that we have is nothing but memory. It is the garbage of the past, the dust that our mirrors have gathered. This dust has to be washed away. And when the mirror is pure and without any dust, it is not yours, it is nobody's -- it is god's. The mirror is god's, the dust is ours. And by'dust' I mean the thoughts, the memories, the desires, the imagination, the dreams and all that. When I say'when we are utterly empty', I mean when all these things have disappeared and there is nothing left -- or only nothing is left, a pure silence; nothing stirs it.
That's what meditation is all about, and once that nothingness is attained, one is surprised: something from the beyond descends and fills one. And that is fulfilment; then one is satiated forever. There is contentment, and a contentment that is eternal, not a momentary phenomenon -- that one moment it is there, another moment it is gone again and the thirst and the longing come back.
So divine mind means: the mind of the whole, the mind of the total, the cosmic mind. You have to disappear into it, like a dewdrop falling into the ocean. Your mind is like the dewdrop and the divine mind is like the ocean. The dewdrop becomes very afraid, naturally so, because it can see 'I am going to disappear, I am going to lose my identity; I will be no more.' The fear is logical but still unfounded, because once the drop has disappeared into the ocean it becomes the ocean. It has not been a loser; it has gained. It has lost only a small definition and it has become vast. With god we lose nothing because we don't have anything and we gain all. Or, we only lose our chains, our bondages, our prisons; and our so-called mind is just a prison.
The divine mind is absolute freedom -- it is a liberation from all limitations.
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