MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES AND SUPER SAINT -MIND-HINDRANCE IN SELF REALISATION

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CHAPTER XXII

MIND-HINDRANCE IN SELF REALISATION

Ignorant people identify themselves with the body, mind and the vrittis of

mind. The mind and the body are instruments only. The real man is behind

the mind. If you become one with the mind, body and Vritti, you get various

sorts of miseries and sufferings.

Mind is known as Parinama. When milk is changed into curd, it is also

Parinama. Even so the mind gets modified into a Kritti by assuming the form

of the object it perceives. Knowledge of perception is a kind of

transformation (Parinama) of the mind.

Some people sleep with their eyes open. The object is there. The centre

of vision is there and yet they cannot see the object. Why because the

mind is not there. Therefore three things are necessary for perception of

an object, viz., the physical instrument, the external flashy eyes which act

as windows to the soul; the centre of the vision in the brain and the mind.

It is the mind that really sees. It is the commander of the five indriyas.

The Indriyas carry the vibrations from outside to the mind. They are

avenues of sense-knowledge.

It is the Purusha or soul that is the real perceiver of an object. The

sense transmits the sense-vibrations to the mind, and the mind in its turn

presents the vibrations to the head of the Soul, the Buddhi or intellect,

the discriminative faculty, which is very close to the Soul. Now, reaction

comes in. With the reaction of the Buddhi manifests egoism side by side.

Then the whole thing is presented to Purusha, who really perceives all

objects.

The Indriyas cannot do anything by themselves. They need the help of their

master, the mind at every moment. It is the mind that sees, hears, tastes,

smells and feels. Indriyas simply transmit the sense-vibrations from

outside to the mind. That which exists outside is unknown with unknowable.

Mind reacts to external vibrations and you see the external universe. If

there is no mind there is no universe. Where is the world for you during

deep sleep Hence this world is termed as Manomatra Jagat (mind only) or

ManahKalpita Jagat (mental creation). This mind is the universe. There is

no world apart from the mind. What you perceive as a big mountain outside

is only the mental image plus some external unknowable something.

 

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