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Mind can be known by Mind & Divinity can be known by Divinity
“Mind can be known by Mind”
Now, I would like to draw your attention on the first aspect of the topic i.e., Mind can be known by Mind. What is this Mind? Where from it has come? Master says, “Mind developed after energy descended from its center for the formation of the world. Alongside the mind, wrong thinking also developed, but they hold God responsible for all these miseries, pangs & suffering of the world.” (SDG-150 – 2005 edition)
Mind by nature is very pure & there was no question of the control of mind when we came into existence. But we have made it monkeyish by our own impure thoughts & actions. We give wrong suggestions to our mind. Now comes the question, what makes us to give such suggestions? Master has clearly said in one of his messages that it is the environment that creates such circumstances to have such ideas. But in order to avoid such impure inputs we cannot go to the hills or forests where we have a conducive environment. Instead of making our external environment conducive, we have to make our inner environment clean & conducive for a mature meditation. As a Grihastha, we are responsible to attend to our worldly life as well as the spiritual life. Such a one is a true saint.
I would also like to share one more point on the state of our monkeyish mind as explained by Swami Vivekananda in the following way. “Imagine a drunken monkey sitting under the hot Sun & has been bit by a scorpion.”
In the above example, we are able to imagine the agony of the monkey. Now, how do we link our state of mind with the above example? We know that Monkey, by nature is mischievous which is more predominant as it is drunk, as mentioned in the above example. This monkey
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