Good and bad qualities are ideas that manifest in the mind, in samsara. They are concepts that vanish when only this peace remains. When you are peace, when you are consciousness, all good qualities will manifest in you and through you, but you will not be aware of them as being `good'. You will just be that peace.
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Question: Does the mind die gradually or suddenly?
Annamalai Swami: One answer is: When the sun comes up, does darkness disappear suddenly or gradually?'
Bhagavan, speaking on this topic, once remarked: `Someone mistakes a rope hanging in the darkness for a snake. He then asks how many years it will take for the snake to die.'
This is a better answer. If the mind does not exist, it cannot die either quickly or slowly.
Annamalai Swami
Final Talks
David Godman, ed
Avdhuta Foundation, pub
p.94-6
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