Question:
Am I creating thoughts or are thoughts just flowing and I’m getting identified with it? I was meditating and all types of thoughts, emotions appeared out of nowhere. “Me/ I” is just another thought. Then what is thinking? Am I thinking or are thoughts just flowing? Does life occur because of the flow of these thoughts that I have no control over? And if life is Brahman’s dream, why is omnipotent eternal consciousness dreaming? If consciousness is the ultimate reality, why did creation occur?
Sri Prabhuji:
Am I creating thoughts ?
What is the I ? Consciousness is the real SELF referred to as “I”. Consciousness does not create thoughts. It is the silent witness. Consciousness has no identity.
The other “I” is the ego – sense of Self identity. I am body, mind… so and so etc. All these identities are relative identities for transactional purpose in the world. Does the ego create thought ? No. Ego itself is a thought. If ego has to create a thought ego should know mechanism of creating thought – how many cells are in brain, how to connect neurons to generate a thought. Obviously ego doesn’t create thought. Thoughts are floating in our Consciousness which witnesses these.
Life is a happening from the impersonal witness point of view. From the psychological self (ego) point of view, there is sense of control – volition – apparent choices to make.
Why did Brahman dream ?
There is no dream from Brahman point of view. Brahman is non-dual. There is no dream.
Why is there a creation ?The question arises from the conceptual ego which itself is an appearance. It is like a dream character asking a question why there is dream. Both dream character and dream are unreal.