Sage Vasishtha
What is more mysterious, Rama, than that the mind is able to veil the omnipresent, pure, eternal and infinite consciousness making you confuse it with this inert physical body? The mind itself appears as wind in the moving element, lusture in the lustrous, solidity in earth and void in the space.
If the mind is elsewhere, the taste of food that is being eaten is not really experienced. If the mind is elsewhere one does not see what is right in front of oneself. The senses are born of the mind, but not the other way round.
Just as an actor is able to portray in himself the character of different personalities, the mind is able to create different states of consciousness like waking and dreaming. The mind experiences what it itself constructs, the mind is nothing but what has been put together by thought; knowing this, do as you please.
What is more mysterious, Rama, than that the mind is able to veil the omnipresent, pure, eternal and infinite consciousness making you confuse it with this inert physical body? The mind itself appears as wind in the moving element, lusture in the lustrous, solidity in earth and void in the space.
If the mind is elsewhere, the taste of food that is being eaten is not really experienced. If the mind is elsewhere one does not see what is right in front of oneself. The senses are born of the mind, but not the other way round.
Just as an actor is able to portray in himself the character of different personalities, the mind is able to create different states of consciousness like waking and dreaming. The mind experiences what it itself constructs, the mind is nothing but what has been put together by thought; knowing this, do as you please.
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