The Self is distinct from the subtle body

The SELF is something distinct from the subtle body, but

it has become ‘associated’ with it.

Until the highest knowledge dawns on one, this complex—the ‘association’ of the soul with the subtle body etc., will never break up.

According to this analysis, the ego is a modification of the inner organ.

The modification rises, and then we identify ourselves with it.

The part of your mind that watches another part of your mind, gets, to a greater extent, the reflection of the Self.

But all this is within the domain of the mind. It is not realization at all.

But as a means, you must increase this faculty of the mind, this faculty of the ‘Witness’ standing aloof and watching all the bubbles and waves and ripples of thought and impulses rising in the lake of the mind. This is one of the principal paths leading to control. Learn to be wide-awake, always.

Learn to discover every desire, every impulse, every thought,

the very moment it begins to rise as a tiny, scarcely perceptible

bubble, and then prick it at once.

This is a very troublesome affair for most beginners.

We are neither asleep nor awake.

We are so dull and so impervious to higher vibrations, that it requires a lot of energy and determination to become really wide-awake and to be up and doing.

Swami yatiswarananda

Readings Of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Wiesbaden, Germany

May 9, 1934 -- (Vol.I 85-93)