Here we’re making a distinction,
we’re defining, connotating,
we’re increasing the connotation of what is meant by ‘heart’,
[Robinson Crusoe | Desert Island of Ego]
because from a mundane point of view
in the 7th chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says,
bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca
ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā [Bg: 7.4]
He outlines sequentially what are the eight material elements:
bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ [Cc: 2.6.164],
earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, and intelligence,
and ahaṅkāra— false ego.
In the following śloka He says,
apareyam itas tv anyāṁ prakṛtiṁ viddhi me parām
jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat [Bg: 7.5]
He says that, “But the jīva, jīva-śakti …
(what I’ve just outlined is prakṛti—mundane energy)
jīva is a superior type of śakti,
which is above these eight elements.”
So although we don’t normally think of it this way, it’s not the first verse
that would come to our mind in terms of sahajiyāism.
Śrīla Guru Mahārāj used it as a refutation of sahajiyāism.
Along these lines that their idea is that by reconditioning
the element of mind, the mundane element of mind,
filling it with images of Kṛṣṇa,
making it accustomed to hearing certain sounds,
that one will have some sort of epiphany,
and their swarūp will manifest.
Guru Mahārāj is of the opinion that all of this must dissolve.
Because the subtlest aspect is ahaṅkāra, false ego,
but then the buddhi, the mind,
the body that’s housing these elements—
all of these must be dissolved.
In what way? Or … Gurudev gave a famous lecture called
“Dissolving the pillars of ego.”
“Demolishing the pillars of ego.”
How? Not through some Buddhistic type of dissolution,
but rather through service,
through service engagement, through dedication.
Biological expression of the soul’s delusion is the body.
It’s the outcome of jīva’s exploiting tendency,
the desire to lord over matter.
Sometimes he would quote “Robinson Crusoe”.
Alexander Selkirk, the famous … The man shipwrecked on the island.
And he has a line, where he says, “I am the lord of all I survey.”
So he’s saying,
“This mood, this mania that I’m the master
and detesting the very notion of …
servitude or, by extension, slavery,
being subordinate, being submissive.”
In modern times any qualities associated with this notion
are considered undesirable and detrimental
to developing oneself and one’s self-esteem, etc.
So the body is a biological expression of the soul’s delusion,
that includes mind, intelligence,
but the outcome of exploiting tendency,
the biological outcome of exploiting tendency,
if we become connected to the service plane,
if we withdraw from being exploiting agents
and become enriched with a dedicating tendency,
then the body, mind, intelligence,
which were the outcome of the exploiting tendency,
start to vanish, and the spiritual mind, intellect, body
begin to manifest—the swarūp.