When the I goes quiet.
The whole diagnosis is haumai — the self that will not stop announcing itself — so the goal is a person for whom that has simply stopped being interesting. Sikh vocabulary calls such a person gurmukh, facing the Guru, against the manmukh who is still taking orders from his own head.
The whole diagnosis in Sikh psychology is haumai — literally I-me, the running assertion of a separate self — so the goal is not a special experience but a person for whom that assertion has stopped being interesting. The corpus uses a pair of terms constantly: the gurmukh, whose face is turned toward the Guru, and the manmukh, who is still taking instructions from his own head. Japji puts it in four words: conquer the mind and the world is conquered. What is notable is how unremarkable the resulting person is meant to look — the gurmukh keeps working, keeps a family, gives a tenth away, and is not described as acquiring powers. Sikh preaching is fairly hard-headed about this, and the standard warning is that a person who announces their own spiritual attainment has, definitionally, not achieved it.
Conquer the mind, and the world is conquered.
Guru Nanak, Japji Sahib pauri 28, Guru Granth Sahib Ang 6 (rendered)The whole programme, in four words.
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