Sage Vasishtha
The impure mind (laden with the tendencies) is the cause for delusions. 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 active and what is renounced by the mind is renunciation.
Mind is the whole world, mind is the atmosphere, mind is the sky, mind is earth, mind is wind, and mind is great. Only he whose mind is foolish is called a fool: when the body loses its intelligence (for example, in death) the corpse is not said to be foolish!
Mind sees: the eyes are formed. Mind hears: ears come into being. Even so with the other senses: it is the mind that creates them. Mind decides what is sweet and what is bitter, who is friend and who is enemy. Mind decides what is heaven and what is hell. Hence, if this mind is mastered, everything is mastered, including the senses.
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