4.1.4.7 Is the mind in its natural state, still and free from mental activity, different from the mind which experiences mental activity? That component of mind which experiences mental activity is what you have mistakenly, all your life, assumed to be the irreducible focus of experience – the individual sense of ‘I’. Mind in its natural state is a state of awareness in which each individual mind, each unique sense of I, is intuitively known in its true form as a confined component, a mere fraction of the true potential of mind.

Mind in its still form and mind in its active form are only apparently polar opposites. That limited component of mind which experiences mental activity on the one hand, and the expanded serene awareness of mind in its natural state on the other, are respectively gross and subtle forms of awareness. The active component of mind and the still component are simply gradations, or variations in form, of the one, universal, all-embracing, transcendent mind.