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external division called baahyakaran (the external organ) and
sookshma (subtle body) – The internal division called antahkaran
(internal organ).
For any action that takes place, first a photograph is
created in the antahkaran (internal organ) and then it manifests
as physical action in the external organ and in the world.
The mind never leaves the body; it jumps around inside
only and shows you different cues and pamphlets. Wandering is
not an attribute of the mind. It is wrong when people say their
mind wanders. It is the chit that wanders. Only the chit can
leave the body and wander outside. It takes pictures of things
exactly as they are and one can see those images. The intellect
gives advice and makes decisions and the ego endorses them.
There is interplay between the mind, the intellect, and the chit
and the ego endorses whomever the intellect sides with, the
mind or the chit.
For example, you are sitting in Santa Cruz and your mind
shows you a ‘pamphlet’ that you want to go to Dadar. Your chit
will immediately go to Dadar and you will see exact images of
Dadar, while sitting in Santa Cruz. Then the mind will show you
another pamphlet that you want to travel by bus, and the chit
will show you the bus. Then the mind will show you a third
pamphlet of going by taxi and the fourth one of going by train.
Then the chit will keep showing you the image of a taxi. Finally
the intellect will then make a decision to go by taxi and the ego,
like the President of India, will endorse it. The work will then
be executed and you will find yourself waiting for a taxi. As
soon as the intellect makes a decision, the mind will cease to
show you any more pamphlets of that subject. It will then begin
to show you pamphlets about another topic. The ego will
endorse either the intellect and the chit or the intellect and the
mind. Intellect is the common factor in the two. Without it no