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have thoughts about stealing. If this tuber is big, he will have
many thoughts and he may end up stealing. He will even boast
about his skills in stealing and by doing so he nourishes his tuber
of stealing, which in turn will continue to sow new seeds of
stealing, and his tuber to steal will grow bigger. Now there is
another man, who also steals, but while stealing he feels remorse
for what he is doing but he has no other means to feed his
family. He continues to repent sincerely and therefore his tuber
of stealing does not get any nourishment. By repenting he is also
sowing seeds of not stealing and so in his next life he will not
steal.
The mind brings forth, different thoughts and because of
a person’s ignorance about his real Self, he becomes entangled
with the thoughts. He believes the thoughts to be his, thereby
creating new images or ‘photographs’. These images are
recorded in the form of a negative and when they manifest into
a physical action, it is like watching a movie on the screen. The
movies you see in a theatre will last only a few hours, whereas
the movie of the mind is endless. Once it ends, a person will
achieve liberation. That is what Kavi sang during the opening
ceremony of a movie theatre in Aurangabad.
“A movie lasts three hours in the world,
But the end of the movie of the mind is liberation.”
People try to control their mind. When they see an
unpleasant ‘movie’, they try to censure it or cut it out. How can
they censure it or cut it after the fact? They should have been
more careful while making the movie. Mind is a movie. All you
have to do in a movie is to watch it and know it. You do not
have to become emotional in it. If someone is dying in a movie,
people start crying sitting in the audience, as if their own loved
one is dying! How foolish! It is only a movie and there is no
need for anyone to cry.