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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Mind
Sage Vasishtha:
The impure mind sees a ghost where there is just a post, and pollutes all relationships, creating suspicion among friends and making enemies of them, even as a drunken man sees that the world is revolving around him. A distressed mind turns food into poison and causes disease and death.
The impure mind (laden with tendencies) is the cause for delusions (manias and phobias). One should strive to uproot these and discard them. What is man but the mind? The body is inert and insentient. One cannot say that the mind is inert, though one cannot say that it is sentient either. What is done by the mind is action; what is renounced by the mind is renunciation.
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