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bunch of thoughts occur, it is called the mind. The mind has two
kinds of thoughts. It has good thoughts and it can have bad
thoughts. It is the dharma of the mind to have both kinds of
thoughts. When one has no thoughts at all, if his mind does not
function at all, he is considered absent minded. Such absent
mindedness makes one’s human life completely useless. Even a
mad man has a mind, but it functions.
Now, even as you are sitting here, can you visualize your
home in London?
Questioner: Yes, I can.
Dadashri: Can you see the tables and chairs in it too?
Questioner: Yes, I can.
Dadashri: That is not the dharma of the mind. Due to
lack of understanding, people believe that it is the mind that
wanders off. In fact, the mind does not go anywhere at all. It is
the chit that wanders. The mind cannot leave the body. What
wanders out of the body is the chit.
Questioner: Are the chit and the mind separate entities?
Dadashri: Yes, they are separate. You can call them
anything in the worldly language but the language of the Lord is
beyond the language of the world. Unless one understands the
language of the Lord, he can never attain moksha (liberation).
The chit wanders outside the body. While sitting here the
chit goes out and sees the home and the table, the clock, etc.,
inside it. The function of the mind is to think. The mind thinks
good thoughts and bad thoughts. To see the good and to see the
bad is the function (dharma) of the chit.
Questioner: Should one consider the chit to be chetan
(animate or consciousness), or jada (inanimate or lifeless)?
Dadashri: It is a blend of the Self and the non-Self