Page 117 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 2

AN EXPOSITION OF THE MASTERS ARTICLE ON GITA
mind is basically pure, it is just like child, new born child. We went on imbibing all impulses by putting in our head and assimilating it and that we started accepting some and rejecting some. That is what He means by colourful or colouring it. By itself none of them have got any colour, we grant it a colour. We accept some and we reject some.
What ever therefore we take into our thought or action exhibits colourfulness in all its phases. So our thinking gets vitiated because of the colours we have accepted. Certain things appear to be correct and certain things appear to be wrong not because they are right or wrong or good or bad but, because we think so.
Our excessive attachments to the environment and other the surroundings of a similar nature create heaviness and grossness. Excessive attachment - please note the word. Attachment, we can't help because we are attached, existence means attachment. We have got to live
together, we can't help there - environment. 115