Beyond the Mind

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This book offers mystic Dada Gavand's insights into the deeper significance of life. It is a collection of dialogs with, a seeker, a researcher, an artist, a psychotherapist, a woman, a family man, a wealthy man, and a meditator. The book points out that the educated mind with all its philosophies and self-centered activities, is a hindrance rather than a help in the upward march of life. The way of awakening, which is meditation, is through constant vigilance of oneself. Such watchful attention will take man beyond the frontiers of the mind into the region of universal intelligence. Through the conversion of the self-centered activity of the mind into impersonal intelligence, man stands poised to realize the beauty and mystery of a new-dimensional existence.

The final challenge for a human being is he himself, the 'I'! In this challenge lies his opportunity to discover his hidden potential. In losing himself, man stands to gain the greatest prize of life freedom from time, which is the liberation of life.

Dada arrived in the United States in September 1975. During his first year of touring in California and Washington, people from many different professions, faiths and lifestyles somehow found themselves in quiet dis- course with this unusual man. Despite their educational qualifications and material successes most of them had no awareness of what Dada refers to as "the true significance of living." They seemed to be caught in a web, kept away from the peace and fulfillment that they struggled and searched for by the very path on which they sought to find them.

Each chapter in this book is a conversation with one of these individuals: a person living as a specialized human entity in society painfully alone and yet imprisoned by a self-made mold of education, profession and aspiration. These eight discussions are representative of the many Dada has held with a psychologist, a biophysicist, a musician, a movie star, a family man, a millionaire, an artist, a mother, a student and many more.

As months passed, a few of those close to Dada shared informal evenings with him, and the idea of this book slowly came into being. People who spent time with Dada became able to penetrate with understanding the illusive nature and limitations of their "mind game." They became aware of the walls of their own prisons, and glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the mind toward freedom which Dada kept gently and persistently telling us is "the liberation of life." As we heard, saw, felt, and understood, a momentum gathered for the compilation of Dada's teach ings in the form of a book. Dada spent many months reviewing miles of tape and hundreds of pages of transcripts. Helpers gave their time, skills, and whatever was needed, and the result of this is in your hands. It is an important contribution to the spiritual awakening of the people to finding that "inner being" for which man has searched for centuries.