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Taken from MIND ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
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WHAT IS MIND?
“He who knows the receptacle (Ayatana) verily becomes the receptacle of his people. Mind is
verily the receptacle (of all our knowledge).” (Chhandogya Upanishad, V-i-5)
That which separates you from God is mind. The wall that stands between you and God is
mind. Pull the wall down through Om-Chintana or devotion and you will come face to face with
God.
THE MIND—A MYSTERY
The vast majority of men know not the existence of the mind and its operations. Even the
so-called educated persons know very little of the mind subjectively or of its nature and operations.
They have only heard of a mind.
Western psychologists know something.
Western doctors know only a fragment of mind. The afferent nerves bring the sensations
from the periphery or extremities of the spinal cord. The sensations then pass to the medulla
oblongata at the back of the head, where the fibres decussate. From there, they pass on to the
superior frontal gyrus or superior frontal convolution of the brain in the forehead, the supposed seat
of the intellect or mind. The mind feels the sensations and sends motor impulses through the
afferent nerves to the extremities—hands, legs, etc. It is a brain-function only for them. Mind,
according to them, is only an excretion of the brain, like bile from liver. The doctors are still groping
in utter darkness. Their minds need drastic flushing for the entry of Hindu philosophical ideas.
It is only the Yogins and those who practise meditation and introspection that know the
existence of the mind, its nature, ways and subtle workings. They know also the various methods of
subduing the mind.
Mind is one of the Ashta-Prakritis. “Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, reason and
egoism—these constitute the eightfold division of My Nature” (Gita, VII-4).
Mind is nothing but Atma-Sakti. It is brain that wants rest (sleep), but not the mind. A Yogi
who has controlled the mind never sleeps. He gets pure rest from meditation itself.
WHAT IS MIND?
“He who knows the receptacle (Ayatana) verily becomes the receptacle of his people. Mind is
verily the receptacle (of all our knowledge).” (Chhandogya Upanishad, V-i-5)
That which separates you from God is mind. The wall that stands between you and God is
mind. Pull the wall down through Om-Chintana or devotion and you will come face to face with
God.
THE MIND—A MYSTERY
The vast majority of men know not the existence of the mind and its operations. Even the
so-called educated persons know very little of the mind subjectively or of its nature and operations.
They have only heard of a mind.
Western psychologists know something.
Western doctors know only a fragment of mind. The afferent nerves bring the sensations
from the periphery or extremities of the spinal cord. The sensations then pass to the medulla
oblongata at the back of the head, where the fibres decussate. From there, they pass on to the
superior frontal gyrus or superior frontal convolution of the brain in the forehead, the supposed seat
of the intellect or mind. The mind feels the sensations and sends motor impulses through the
afferent nerves to the extremities—hands, legs, etc. It is a brain-function only for them. Mind,
according to them, is only an excretion of the brain, like bile from liver. The doctors are still groping
in utter darkness. Their minds need drastic flushing for the entry of Hindu philosophical ideas.
It is only the Yogins and those who practise meditation and introspection that know the
existence of the mind, its nature, ways and subtle workings. They know also the various methods of
subduing the mind.
Mind is one of the Ashta-Prakritis. “Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, reason and
egoism—these constitute the eightfold division of My Nature” (Gita, VII-4).
Mind is nothing but Atma-Sakti. It is brain that wants rest (sleep), but not the mind. A Yogi
who has controlled the mind never sleeps. He gets pure rest from meditation itself.
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