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We try to convey our thoughts through words but it is not always possible to convey all that we have in our thoughts through words.
Words are sounds to express our ideas. If I mention the word “Dog” all those who are listening will get the memory of that animal. There are few words which do not bring the same familiar thought in all as the word “Dog” did. These words which when expressed bring different thought in every individual and hence we find difficulty in understanding them, one such word is “Conscious.”
We see through our eyes but all that we see does not get registered in our mind, and to perceive what we see we have to be Conscious. The thought that sprout after perceiving a thing can affect our emotions or will power. Therefore Conscious is of threefold nature and our mind is total aggregation of Conscious grouped under Thought, Will Power, and Emotion. We are always experiencing Conscious in our wake stage.
If this statement is to be believed it is so in animals also. Even they have thoughts, emotions, and will power, if so how does our mind differ from that of animal mind?
No two individual will react in a similar way to perceptions, but two animals do normally react similarly. One can easily make out the difference of individual reaction in the human world than in the animal kingdom. Animals react differently within the limits of instinct while humans react according to their material or intellect or spiritual needs. This is the vast difference.
We humans are divine beings and our mind is a glimmer of our own spiritual being. It is this mind which gives us the sense of “I-ness” and uses the sense-organs to perceive the world and make us attentive to our emotional nature and of our ideas. Without it a person is unable to desire for pleasant moments in future or forget his past unpleasant events. Having said that if one observes our mind has more thoughts of future than the thoughts that make it brooding over the past.
So now we can pinpoint the mind to be thinking of future due to desire that has its tentacles gasping and controlling the mind and corrupting the otherwise pure faculty of Conscious. So what is this mind then?
It is colorless pure and unpainted canvas, being merely “Conscious” but is colored by the alterations that it constantly undergoes by the cause of the limiting thoughts or feelings or ideas on which it is dwelling. While some of these color painted are from past lives, some are new colors of present life. Hence we are told first to free the mind from desire which color canvas of our mind with brushes of senses.
Is it possible to keep the canvas of mind pure and prevent the desire from excreting pressure on senses to paint on the canvas?
YES..... If so, How??
Mind is a one of the conscious principle among the unified hormonal trinity namely Atma (Soul), Buddhi (Intellect) and Manas (Mind). Therefore it has three features: the Will Power feature (Soul), the Emotional feature (Intellect), and the Thought feature (Mind).
Mind (thought feature) if influenced by Soul is Spiritual Will Power and if illuminated by Intellect it is Intellectual Will Power. If mind is not influenced by either by Soul or Intellect it is driven by the Kama (Desire) propelled by any one of the five Indriyas (Senses) to spin the web of wantons.
If one assumes that desire must let go of the mind it will never happen, but when one understands that it is mind that has to refuse abide to the pull of desire then there is a start. The next level is Spiritual Will Power feature of mind that comes into play when one realizes the necessity of freeing the mind from desire with the Intellectual Will Power.
Words are sounds to express our ideas. If I mention the word “Dog” all those who are listening will get the memory of that animal. There are few words which do not bring the same familiar thought in all as the word “Dog” did. These words which when expressed bring different thought in every individual and hence we find difficulty in understanding them, one such word is “Conscious.”
We see through our eyes but all that we see does not get registered in our mind, and to perceive what we see we have to be Conscious. The thought that sprout after perceiving a thing can affect our emotions or will power. Therefore Conscious is of threefold nature and our mind is total aggregation of Conscious grouped under Thought, Will Power, and Emotion. We are always experiencing Conscious in our wake stage.
If this statement is to be believed it is so in animals also. Even they have thoughts, emotions, and will power, if so how does our mind differ from that of animal mind?
No two individual will react in a similar way to perceptions, but two animals do normally react similarly. One can easily make out the difference of individual reaction in the human world than in the animal kingdom. Animals react differently within the limits of instinct while humans react according to their material or intellect or spiritual needs. This is the vast difference.
We humans are divine beings and our mind is a glimmer of our own spiritual being. It is this mind which gives us the sense of “I-ness” and uses the sense-organs to perceive the world and make us attentive to our emotional nature and of our ideas. Without it a person is unable to desire for pleasant moments in future or forget his past unpleasant events. Having said that if one observes our mind has more thoughts of future than the thoughts that make it brooding over the past.
So now we can pinpoint the mind to be thinking of future due to desire that has its tentacles gasping and controlling the mind and corrupting the otherwise pure faculty of Conscious. So what is this mind then?
It is colorless pure and unpainted canvas, being merely “Conscious” but is colored by the alterations that it constantly undergoes by the cause of the limiting thoughts or feelings or ideas on which it is dwelling. While some of these color painted are from past lives, some are new colors of present life. Hence we are told first to free the mind from desire which color canvas of our mind with brushes of senses.
Is it possible to keep the canvas of mind pure and prevent the desire from excreting pressure on senses to paint on the canvas?
YES..... If so, How??
Mind is a one of the conscious principle among the unified hormonal trinity namely Atma (Soul), Buddhi (Intellect) and Manas (Mind). Therefore it has three features: the Will Power feature (Soul), the Emotional feature (Intellect), and the Thought feature (Mind).
Mind (thought feature) if influenced by Soul is Spiritual Will Power and if illuminated by Intellect it is Intellectual Will Power. If mind is not influenced by either by Soul or Intellect it is driven by the Kama (Desire) propelled by any one of the five Indriyas (Senses) to spin the web of wantons.
If one assumes that desire must let go of the mind it will never happen, but when one understands that it is mind that has to refuse abide to the pull of desire then there is a start. The next level is Spiritual Will Power feature of mind that comes into play when one realizes the necessity of freeing the mind from desire with the Intellectual Will Power.
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