YH Jan2018 | Page 60

mind AWARENESS A TIME OF TRANSITION W e are at a time of great transition, great possibility. And with great transition and great possibility comes an enormous intensity of breaking apart, or of chaos. But this is not a bad time, it is not foretelling Armageddon. There is no fear. Fear is the illusion of the human mind as it purges its distortions. And many are caught in that. But the great tide, the great ocean of Mother, is rising. Her waters are rising. And it remains to be seen who is pulled out to sea and 58 YOGIC HERALD JAN 2018 who stands firm and allows the water to cleanse them of the distortion of the human mind. The mind is our lockbox; it is our prison. We study the mind, we observe the mind, we watch the mind, we clear the mind, we give the mind things to do – affirmations. But all of this is ultimately to be free of the mind – to live in no mind. Everything you learn is given to you to become free of it. It is simply a tool to be in the pure awareness. And in the pure awareness everything is perfect. The mind