Reason, Memory, Thought |
sufism of hazrat inayat khan
By a minute study of the mind, one will find that the different qualities such as reason, memory, thought, feeling, and the ego, all these five things constitute the mind. One will find that there is a surface to this and there is a depth to it. Its depth is the heart. Its surface is the mind. Each quality of mind represents one of these five elements.
This again takes us to the thought that even the mind, which is above the physical body, is a mechanism. And the more one is acquainted with the mechanism, the more one is able to manage it to its best advantage. It is the ignorance of the secret of this mechanism that keeps man unaware of his own domain.
This knowledge makes one think, ‘I am neither my body nor am I my mind; I am the engineer who has these two possessions, these two machineries, to work with to the best advantage of life.’ Then one begins to ask, ‘What am I?’ For to a certain degree, even the mind is a mechanism, which is borrowed from the outer sphere, as the body is a mechanism, which has been borrowed from the physical plane, which has been gathered together and constructed.
Therefore, neither mind nor body is the self. One thinks, ‘It is myself,’ only because one cannot see oneself. And so one says of everything one sees, ‘This is myself.’ The self becomes acquainted with everything but itself. So that mind, which the self has used, has become a kind of cover upon the light, which fulfills the purpose of life. hazrat inayat khan
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