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decision regarding any work is arrived at and when the decision
is made, the ego endorses it and the work is executed. No
work can be executed without the ego; without the ego you
cannot even get up for a glass of water.
Thus the antahkaran is like a parliamentary system.
What Is The Mind Like? What Are Thoughts?
Now I will explain what the mind is and its nature.
The mind is like a rhizome. It is made up of many tubers
and is very subtle. It is neither a subatomic particle (parmanoo)
nor an atom but a stage between the two. When any situation
arises, it expresses attachment or abhorrence towards that
situation and it remains absorbed in that situation. Because of
this, a new causal-mind is created, the effect of which is brought
into fruition by vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences),
and this effect manifests as ‘effective-mind’. Everyone’s mind is
different because his or her causal-mind is different. The longer
the mind remains caught up in a situation, the greater the number
of parmanoos accumulate and come together and it is this very
collection of parmanoos that creates a tuber. The mind is a
collection of tubers. When the circumstances and timing is right
in accordance to the principles of vyavasthit, the tuber sprouts
and that is what we refer to as thoughts. The nature of the mind
can be understood from the thoughts and the kind of tubers that
have been created. Thoughts can be read. You have attachment
towards pleasant thoughts and abhorrence towards unpleasant
ones and then you say you want to conquer the mind. The mind
can never be conquered, but it can be contained through Gnan,
just like water is contained in a pot. Conquering the mind is the
biggest contradiction. The Real You are sentient (chetan, with
life principle) and the mind is insentient (achetan, non-self, without
life), so how can the two be compatible? Only when the Self
does the ‘work’ of the Self and the mind does the ‘work’ of