14/07/2026
We, meaning the inner mental doer within us, make all decisions in life with the help of thoughts.
Because we are ignorant of this "I" which is our mental doer, we casually refer to it as the soul, even though there is absolutely no evidence of the soul's existence.
We never investigate the system through which thinking occurs, nor do we ever ponder what exactly a thought is. And yet, we make all our decisions by thinking. Decisions made in ignorance and born out of an ignorant mind lead to despair and sorrow in our lives.
All we know about thought is that the brain performs the function of thinking. However, we do not investigate how the brain carries out that function.
In understanding what thought is, one discovers the "I"—the inner mental doer. In understanding the "I" and its thoughts, the state of truth is realized, which eliminates ignorance from life and causes the shadow of sorrow to vanish.
When our body and its senses receive an experience, images of that experience are created and stored in our memory via the senses and the brain. Memories emerge from this storage in the form of thoughts. Therefore, all thoughts belong to the past. Since some time elapses between the actual experience and the creation of its thought, this mental time and thought are two sides of the same coin. When thoughts emerge from memory, one of those thoughts begins to perceive itself as the doer, the "I." This is what has been mistakenly referred to in scriptures as the soul, the witness, or the seer. This mental observer, which is merely a reaction of memory, is not real; it is temporary, and therefore, it is an illusion. This observer within the memory observes other images of past recollections and their scenes from same memory storage, narrates the present experience or old memories. Since both the observer and the observations are parts of memory, they are one and the same—merely past images and their thoughts. Because mental time, the mental "I," the seer, the seen, thoughts, and the imaginations created by thoughts are not real, they are considered as false.
Whereas The world that exists apart from mental time, the mental "I," the seer, the seen, thought, and the imaginations created by thought, is the truth, because it exists in reality.
We, meaning the inner mental doer within us, make all decisions in life with the help of thoughts.
Because we are ignorant of this "I" which is our mental doer, we casually refer to it as the soul, even though there is absolutely no evidence of the soul's existence.
We never investigate the system through which thinking occurs, nor do we ever ponder what exactly a thought is. And yet, we make all our decisions by thinking. Decisions made in ignorance and born out of an ignorant mind lead to despair and sorrow in our lives.
All we know about thought is that the brain performs the function of thinking. However, we do not investigate how the brain carries out that function.
In understanding what thought is, one discovers the "I"—the inner mental doer. In understanding the "I" and its thoughts, the state of truth is realized, which eliminates ignorance from life and causes the shadow of sorrow to vanish.
When our body and its senses receive an experience, images of that experience are created and stored in our memory via the senses and the brain. Memories emerge from this storage in the form of thoughts. Therefore, all thoughts belong to the past. Since some time elapses between the actual experience and the creation of its thought, this mental time and thought are two sides of the same coin. When thoughts emerge from memory, one of those thoughts begins to perceive itself as the doer, the "I." This is what has been mistakenly referred to in scriptures as the soul, the witness, or the seer. This mental observer, which is merely a reaction of memory, is not real; it is temporary, and therefore, it is an illusion. This observer within the memory observes other images of past recollections and their scenes from same memory storage, narrates the present experience or old memories. Since both the observer and the observations are parts of memory, they are one and the same—merely past images and their thoughts. Because mental time, the mental "I," the seer, the seen, thoughts, and the imaginations created by thoughts are not real, they are considered as false.
Whereas The world that exists apart from mental time, the mental "I," the seer, the seen, thought, and the imaginations created by thought, is the truth, because it exists in reality.