Evolution of Love 2

Jiva means consciousness.

One is restless because one believes one is of the nature of the body. The body is
a doll made up of food. The mind has taken to the belief that one is of the nature of the body.
As a result, it has to suffer all kinds of miseries.

Really speaking, the mind has no individual existence. By taking yourself as the body, you are retrograding yourself day by day. Even that deterioration is not real. All this is called maya. The fact that you experience fear should make you find out who you are in all this. There is no person in the body, as such. There is prana in it, there is consciousness in it.

Your true nature is the Self, not the
body.
The Guru is not an individual, he is the manifested all-pervading consciousness. Take up the identity as formless consciousness and carry on your activities. The reason why devotion to the Guru gives liberation is that one comes to know that he is free.

The mind can never cognize the Self. When the mind steadily attempts to find the Self, it disappears in the process. Maya has compounded the body with consciousness.
What is visible has form and color, but the seer has neither form nor color.

Why does memory fail in old age?
It is because consciousness, one’s quality of Sattva, starts dissolving. We must have the knowledge of what we were before we hear about how we are now. Our behavior is the result of characteristics of the essence of food. Please remember that the mind flows according to the quality of
food. You have a great attachment to your consciousness. Worldly activities are carried out in order to tolerate our beingness.

The one who has the conviction that he is the Atman will never feel anything, even if
a thousand miseries are heaped upon him.