RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Mortal and Universal Mind — Part 2

Overcome the five afflictions and live governed by divine love

As we calm our mortal thinking mind and feeling, we enter the vast universal mind. We begin to understand what yogis, mystics and metaphysicians experience. We begin to grasp the words of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), the founder of Christian Science: Man is spiritual, not material. Soul is Spirit, outside of matter — never in it — giving the body life and sensation.

Spiritual Development, Mind, Metaphysics, Higher Consciousness

Mary Baker Eddy on the Universal Mind

Divine mind, universal mind, Spirit, is the reality. In divine mind you are perfect, whole, healthy, harmonious, a reflection of God. You are made in God’s image. Stay in divine mind, receive Spirit, divine ideas, and harmony of being. Permit divine mind to abide, manifest and demonstrate.

Yogis suggest we suffer from five afflictions that keep us in the mortal mind
Yogis, mystics and metaphysicians teach that there is a universal mind which we all live within
Through calming the mortal mind, we can discover the universal mind

Mary Baker Eddy wrote about the universal mind: Get more into the universal mind and have an openness to it. You will bring these wonderful spiritual realities into your experience.
Distinguishing the mortal mind from universal mind will help us live more and more in the universal mind