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If you look deep inside into the mind directly, first you will be amazed, mystified as to why you go on carrying this mind. And the second thing you will realise is that you are not the mind, you are the looker, the watcher, the witness, who is seeing into the mind. And that will give you a freedom that you have not yet known. You are confined in the body, then you are confined in the mind. Once you come to know that you are neither the body nor the mind, suddenly you become unconfined &#8212; you are as big, as vast as the sky. 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