No Part of the Mind Is Unconditioned ( 28 may 2006)

Your mind is conditioned right through: there is no part of you which isunconditioned. That is a fact, whether you like it or not. You may say is a part ofyou—the watcher, the super-soul, the Atma—which is not conditioned; but because youthink about it, it is within the field of thought, therefore, it is conditioned. Youcan invent lots of theories about it, but the fact is that your mind is conditionedright through, the conscious as well as the unconscious, and any effort it makes tofree itself is also conditioned. So what is the mind to do? Or rather, what is thestate of the mind when it knows that it is conditioned and realizes that any effortit makes to uncondition itself is still conditioned?Now, when you say, "I know I am conditioned," do you really know it, or is thatmerely a verbal statement? Do you know it with the same potency with which you see acobra? When you see a snake and know it to be a cobra, there is immediate,unpremeditated action; and when you say, "I know I am conditioned," has it the samevital significance as your perception of the cobra? Or is it merely a superficialacknowledgment of the fact, and not the realization of the fact? When I realize thefact that I am conditioned, there is immediate action. I don't have to make aneffort to uncondition myself. The very fact that I am conditioned, and therealization of that fact, brings an immediate clarification. The difficulty lies innot realizing it in the sense of understanding all its implications, seeing that allthought, however subtle, however cunning, however sophisticated or philosophical, isconditioned.

The Book of Life - May 28