JNANA 11: Immortality (part 1)

We take up JNANA 11 aphorism on Immortality. The first part deals with understanding what is immortality. Only this portion of the Aphorism has been taken up in this talk. JNANA 11 Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow. The Mother’s Commentary: There are three statements here which have raised questions. First, “What is the mental personality?” In each human being the body is animated by the vital being, and governed, or partially governed, by a mental being. This is a general rule, but the extent to which the mental being is formed and individualised varies greatly from one individual to the next. In the great mass of human beings the mind is something fluid which has no organisation of its own, and therefore it is not a personality. And as long as the mind is like that, fluid, unorganised, with no cohesive life o