We are that permanent form, not that we are formless. We have got form, but it is very minute. We cannot see with these eyes. Our eyes is . . . eyes are always imperfect. What we can see? We cannot see very . . . which is situated in very long, distant place. We cannot see even our eyelid. So these eyes are very conditional. So how we can see what is our . . . what is my constitution? These things are to be considered. One should take account of the spiritual.
Now begins from that consciousness that, "What I am? I am this consciousness. I am not this body." That education begins from there. And the whole practice, whole idea, should be to detach myself from this misconception of life. So one of the symptom is that:
- yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas
- tat tat prāpya śubhāśubham
- nābhinandati na dveṣṭi
- tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā
- (BG 2.57)
Now, na, na abhinandati. Now, suppose one has done very marvelous work. So we should not be very much enthusiastic to praise for such work. What is that work? That work is material. It will vanish. Nābhinandati. Neither, when it is vanished, he is also sorry for that. These symptoms are for a person who is situated in the pure consciousness platform. Tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā. His prajñā, his intelligence . . . you mind that, intelligence is above the mind. The first stage is . . . the general stage of our life is the activities of the senses.