Each part of the mind, each of its manifestations, each function is good and necessary in their own way. Only by using his mind, a person is able to achieve knowledge of his true nature and his true “I”. Gradual progress through many intermediate stages can be accomplished only through the development and improvement of mental abilities of a person.

At the present time, a person uses only the lower and imperfect parts of his mind, and inside his spiritual world there are large unexplored areas that far surpass everything that the human mind can dream of. Part of the tasks of Rulilulvis is to help the disclosure of higher abilities and new areas of the spiritual world, and therefore sages strive mainly to show the strengths and capabilities inherent in the mind, and direct a person along the right path to the disclosure of these forces.

The teachings presented here can be grasped, understood, and used with the mind to the greatest benefit. Before opening your own higher realms, it is important that the intellect does not put obstacles in the way of truths that are ready to penetrate from the realm of the spiritual mind - who knows the Truth.

Training the mind

Create a calm, quiet environment so that you can freely reflect on the topics that we will put before you. Sympathetically meet the topics offered to you and let your state of mind be such that you can easily penetrate what is waiting for you in the higher regions of your mind.

We want to draw your attention to some mental impressions and states in certain sequence, so that you can realize that these states of mind are only random manifestations of your “I”, and not yourself. This is necessary so that you can put them aside and treat them like any other thing you use. You cannot detach the “I” from yourself and view it in this way, but in this way you can study the various forms of the “not-I”.

We have already made it possible to realize your "I” as something independent of the body, which is only an instrument used by the “I". You have now reached the stage where your "I" appears to you as a mental entity-a tangle of thoughts, feelings, moods, etc. But you must go further and learn to distinguish the “I” from these mental states, which are the tools of the “I”, just like the body and its parts. We will begin by considering thoughts more closely related to the body, and then gradually move on to higher mental states.

Such bodily sensations as hunger, thirst, pain, pleasant sensations, carnal desires, etc., are hardly mistaken for essential properties of the “I”. Those who have passed the first stage have already learned, to a greater or lesser extent, to detach themselves from these sensations by an effort of will, and are no longer their slaves. It is not that they do not experience these sensations, but they are accustomed to look at them as accidents of physical life – useful in their place – but only when a person has mastered them and no longer accepts them as his “I”.

However, for some people, these feelings are so close to their understanding of their "I" that they think of themselves as just a lump of these feelings. They are unable to mentally move away from these sensations and consider them as a separate thing from themselves, which can be used when it is useful or necessary, but which cannot be attached to their “I". The more a person grows internally, the more distant these sensations seem. This, of course, does not mean that, for example, he does not feel hungry. Quite the opposite, because he feels hunger and satisfies it within reason, knowing that the physical body requires attention to itself and this demand must be heard. But notice the difference, instead of feeling “I” is hungry, a person feels that “his body” is hungry, just as he could be aware that his dog or horse is hungry and feed them. In this case, the person no longer identifies himself, i.e. my “I” with the body, and therefore all thoughts that are usually associated with physical life. Such a person often thinks instead of “I” - “my stomach” or “my leg”, i.e. he is able to automatically think of the body and its sensations as things separate from it, just belonging to him, which require care and attention. He forms the idea of "I", existing separately from all these things - apart from the body and its sensations, and this makes the first step towards realizing the true "I".

Before going any further, we ask readers to stop for a few minutes and mentally go through all the sensations of the body. Imagine a mental image of these sensations and try to realize that they are just accidents at the present stage of growth and development of the “I”. In further development, they may be left behind. Realizing, that they can be considered as something "external”, a person mentally decides that these things belong to the" not-Self "and mentally connects them with everything else that is "not-Self". The student should not go further until he fully and accurately understands what this thing refers to – to the "I” or "not-I".

Next, a person should consider some of his emotions: anger, hatred and love in its most ordinary forms, jealousy, pride, and many other emotions that continuously pass through the soul of a person. He will see that he can move away from each of these emotions and study it from the outside, analyze, decompose, dissect, thinking of it as a separate thing from itself. Then he will be able to understand the origin, development and end of each of these feelings, recalling them in memory, observing them as if they did not happen to him or in him, but to someone else. He will see that all the feelings he has experienced before are stored in various corners of his memory, and he can make them all pass in front of him and see that this is not “him”, but just something that he carries in his memory. A person can easily imagine that he lives without these feelings and still remains himself, retaining the same "I".

Only the fact that a person can move away from these sensations and view them from the outside is proof that they belong to the world of “not-I", because in this case they act as two sides. First, you are the one who considers and reasons and second, what you are discussing is the object of your consideration. Thus, all emotions-desirable and undesirable – are gradually transferred to the world of the “not-I”, and the area of the “not-I” gradually grows, taking on “threatening” dimensions.

The purpose of this teaching is not to combat emotions, although if this teaching frees you from negative emotions, so much the better. This time, our goal is to combine desirable emotions with undesirable ones, mainly for that. To help the reader understand the fact that "I" is above all these emotions and independently of them so much that when a person realizes the true nature of his "I", he can go back, and how the master can use the things that he recently served as a slave...

Therefore, we should not be afraid to throw all emotions, good and bad, in one direction - in the direction of “not-I”. You can return to them when the mental training is over and use those that you find useful. No matter how much you think that you are bound by this or that emotion, a careful analysis will nevertheless show that these emotions belong to the area of “not-I”, because “I” existed before this emotion arose and will exist when it disappears even a trace of her from memory. But the main proof is that you can separate yourself from these emotions, keep them at some distance from you, and look at them from the outside.

To be continued…