manaeva manuSyANAM kAraNaM bandha mokSaH

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Namaste all.

 

mana eva manuSyANAM karaNaM bandha mokSayaH

 

- Pancadazi, Sri Vidyaranya Swami

 

Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation.

 

cetaH khalvasya bandhAya muktaye cAtmano matam,

guNeSu saktaM bandhAya rataM vA puMsi muktaye

 

Bhagavatam 3.25.15

 

The stage in which the consciousness of the living being is attached

by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life or bondage.

But when that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Person,

the living being is free in the state of liberation.

 

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.42

 

dvija uvaca

 

nayam jano me sukha-duhkha-hetur

na devatatma graha-karma-kalah

manah param karanam amananti

samsara-cakram parivartayed yat

 

The brahmana said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress.

Neither are the demigods, my own body, the planets, my past work, or time.

 

Rather, it is the mind alone that causes happiness and distress and perpetuates

the rotation of material life.

 

11.23.44

 

aniha atma manasa samihata

hiran-mayo mat-sakha udvicashte

manah sva-lingam parigrihya kaman

jushan nibaddho guna-sangato 'sau

 

Although present along with the struggling mind within the material body,

the Soul is not endeavoring, because He is already endowed with transcendental

enlightenment.

 

Acting as my friend, He simply witnesses from His transcendental position.

I in the form of 'ego', on the other hand, have embraced this mind,

which is the mirror reflecting the image of the material world.

 

Thus that 'I' have become engaged in enjoying objects of desire

and am entangled due to contact with the modes of nature.

 

---

Adi Jagadguru Sri Shankara Bhagavatpada said:

 

There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the thinking mind.

 

Thought is itself ignorance, the cause of the bondage of becoming.

When thought is eliminated, everything else is eliminated.

 

When thought increases everything else increases. 169

 

In deep sleep when the thinking mind has gone into abeyance

 

there is nothing, by every one's experience,

 

so man's Samsara is a mind creation, and has no real existence. 171

 

Cloud is gathered by the wind, and is driven away by it too.

 

Bondage is imagined by the mind, and liberation is imagined by it too. 172

 

By dwelling with desire on the body and other senses

 

the mind binds a man like an animal with a rope, and

 

the same mind liberates him from the bond by creating

 

simple distaste for the senses as if they were poison. 173

 

- Viveka Chudamani

 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said:

 

" It is the mind that matters.

If the mind is bound, you are bound;

if the mind is free, you are free.

 

The mind gets dyed in the colour you dye it with.

It is just like a laundered white cloth. You can get it dyed in any colour--

red, blue or green. It gets the colour you dip it in.

Just see, if you study a little of English, you start speaking English in spite

of yourself : Foot-fut, it-mit. (All laugh.)

 

And also putting on shoes (English boots), whistling and singing, all these

actions.

And if a pundit studies Sanskrit, he starts quoting slokas.

If the mind is kept in bad company, it adopts the same style of conversation and

thoughts. If you keep it in the company of a bhakta, meditation on the Lord and

talk of Hari and so on would follow.

 

Lord Krsna states in the Gopala-tapani Upanisad (Uttara 4):

 

aputah puto bhavati yam mam smrtva

avrati vrati bhavati yam mam smrtva

niskamah sa-kamo bhavati yam mam smrtva

asrotri srotri bhavati yam mam smrtva

 

Translation:

 

*By remembering Me, one who is impure becomes pure.*

*By remembering Me, one who follows no vows becomes

a strict follower of vows.*

*By remembering Me, one who is desireless develops

desires [to serve Me].*

*By remembering Me, one who has studied no Vedic mantras

becomes an expert knower of the Vedas.*

 

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Now listen to Sri Ramana Maharshi:

 

Firmly remaining in your true state is not at all a difficult task.

Now you are oppressed by that sense of self identification with body.

 

When this feeling is removed you will become that true Self.

 

The feelings of yourself as separate entity comes only when

That mind is exposed towards outside world.

 

*****

 

When individuality is not there

All ever expanding thoughts of mind will disappear.

 

This Individuality and all actions of mind will live and

Grow with each other.

 

If one is not there, the other one will disappear.

 

*******

The experience of true Self is possible for an eliminated mind.

 

It means the mind which has turned inside towards the true Self.

Then the mind will know its roots and

it will transform itself and identify with that true Self.

 

Disappearance of the sense of self is the real truth.

 

**********

 

Each and every person and every spiritual book will explain

in great detail about liberation.

But no one will speak about the basic question.

 

What is that fundamental question ?

 

That liberation is for Whom???

 

Everyone wants liberation for oneself.

When we question him about this, he replies that, that liberation is for him

only.

 

Is it for his physical body or for his mind or for his true self ??

 

He doesn't know about himself.

If you want liberation, is it not necessary for you to Know about You ??

 

If you identify yourself with your physical body,

That is liable to perish and you will get liberation naturally in due course.

There is no need to put in any extra efforts for realizing it.

 

 

If you are that Mind, what is that Mind??

 

That Mind is nothing but a cluster of thoughts

Which are formed with mental impressions and resolutions.

 

If you want liberation from that exercise of your will,

You have to remove all thoughts and imaginations.

 

Is it possible to remove each and every thought or imagination,

And mental impressions even after taking millions of births ??

 

 

If you say that I am the Soul,

Then have you ever felt and experienced that Soul?

 

So learn about that Living thing.

 

Know about your true Self,

that is the liberation for You.

 

All your illusionary imaginations will vanish once you experience that

And forever you remain in that liberated State.

 

--- Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

Jaya Sri Radhe!

 

 

, " Thimmappa M.S. " <thimmappams wrote:

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> manayeeva manushyanaam kaaranam bandha mokshayai

> bhandayaa vishayaa sanghe mokshai nirvishayam manaha

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> Mind is the cause for both bondage and freedom

> Mind bound to object of the senses is bondage, mind free of such objects is

freedom.

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> Mind turned/tuned outward distances God, mind turned/tuned inward access God!

> M.S.Thimmappa.

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Enemies and friends, pride and possessions, abuses and insults, all these are

created and comprehended by that Mind, with its limitations. Some one may be an

enemy for you as per your analysis with the dealings between both of you. But,

Is he Enemy to all in this world, He is not having any friends for Him?,

Definitely he will have friends.

 

Simlarly the person whom we consider as friend, is he friend for all? He is not

having any enemies for Him ??, definitely he will have enemies.

 

If someone is a friend or an enemy for us, then he should remain like that with

everyone in the world. But it is not happening like that, so what we can

conclude with this is, every one is having their own set of friends and enemies,

all our friends and enemies are fabricated by that Mind.

 

Similarly all our attachments with our people and friends with our pride and

passions, our attachment to wealth and endless possessions, all these are

conceived and nurtured by that Mind.

 

If the limited low grade feeling which are based on that Mind are removed, the

High grade unlimited universal supreme feeling of that true self will evolve for

You.

 

When all your feelings identifying your self with body are gone, The Divine

feelings of true self will come to You.

 

---- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

>

> mana eva manuSyANAM karaNaM bandha mokSayaH

 

> Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation.

>

> cetaH khalvasya bandhAya muktaye cAtmano matam,

> guNeSu saktaM bandhAya rataM vA puMsi muktaye

 

> The stage in which the consciousness of the living being is attached

> by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life or bondage.

> But when that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Person,

> the living being is free in the state of liberation.

>

> Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.42

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