So, Manonash is impossible. But if selfless action, even if not perfect, is persistently done, a stage is reached when mind is permanently at peace. It sees God, but it is not yet destroyed. If through bhakti a stage of devotion is reached by which constant devotion is attained, then this peace of mind and seeing of God comes. So, if one says, "I am God; I am not the body," and persists in this saying with 100 percent faithfulness at the cost of everything, then this peace of mind is achieved. But for Manonash there is always one thing. One who is free can uproot the minds of others, even of the masses. Even the Avatars had to have such Perfect Ones to uproot their minds.1
In short, there are all these ways to attain Manonash and to make you feel that you are God, Infinite, Eternal. But it is rightly said that when you cannot step out of your nature, how can you aspire to enter the threshold of the Beloved?
Following different paths, different people encounter different difficulties. Some who do not know the technique of meditation become mad. Some say that they should not even see a woman. They get so nervous about it.
The fact is that we are God, but we are misled by this shameless mind. The mind is so shameless that the more you wish to get rid of it, the more you become entangled in it — just as when you try to take out one foot from the mud, your other foot gets more deeply stuck. All the same, you have to get rid of this trouble.
Footnotes
- 1.What is meant is that even the Avatars have to have the help of the five Perfect Masters to lift the veil and "annihilate" the gross-conscious mind (created by the vidnyani sanskaras) they have when they incarnate as an Avatar.