Brahman, and remains untainted, how can there be the
manifold or movements in the mind? Tell me.
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Disciple: How then can the wise, liberated while alive, exhaust their prarabdha if their mind has lost itself in Brahman and become one with It? Is it not done only by experiencing its results? Such experience would certainly require the mind. There cannot be any kind of experience in the absence of the mind. If the mind persists, how can it be said to be liberated? I am confused on this point. Be pleased to clear this doubt of mine, for I cannot be liberated unless all my doubts are cleared away.
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Master: The annihilation of the mind is of two grades: namely, of the mind pattern#¢ and of the mind itself42. The former applies to Sages liberated while alive; the latter to disembodied Sages. Elimination of rajas and tamas, leaving sattva alone is the dissolution of the pattern of the mind. When sattva vanishes along with the subtle body, the mind itself is said to have perished too.
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Sattva is pure and forms the very nature of the mind; when rajas and tamas (which give the pattern to it) are destroyed (by proper practice), the identity of the term “mind” is lost. For, in such a state, the Sages will partake of what comes unsolicited to them; not think of the past or future; nor exalt in joy or lament in sorrow; getting over their doership and becoming non-doers; witnessing the mental modes and the three states (waking, dream,
dreamless sleep)48 they can remain liberated at the same
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