Guest guest Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 (ii) The Higher Mind 17. If your mind is free from cravings, desires and attachment, you will not be born again. You will attain freedom and perfection. 18. Mind is an instrument of the Self. If it is disciplined, stilled and purified, it is your useful servant; but if it is left unbridled and undisciplined, it brings misery and sorrow. 19. If you allow your lower mind to get pampered with earthly things, then true Jnana (wisdom) will recede to a great distance from you. 20. As long as there is the centering of affection in the body which is not the Atman and the mistaken identification of it with the Atman, so long will the mind grow fatter and fatter in its association with the Samsara of wife, children, etc. 21. A stainless mind without attractions, though engaged in worldly acts, will never be bound thereby. 22. A mind with attractions, though engaged in innumerable Tapas will ever be in bondage. 23. Man is the creature of th ought. Whatever he thinks that he becomes. 24. Mind coloured by desire drives man to search for personal satisfaction. 25. As the mind itself, which thinks, feels and wills, is a modification of ignorance, it cannot know Brahman or the Absolute. 26. Cogitation, emotion and volition are the three aspects of the human mind. 27. Watch the mind. Restrain it. Have a well-directed mind which confers very great benefits. Contd.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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