Page 110 - Journey to Infinity

Mukti. Just as knowledge and ignorance are the states of mind, so also are freedom and bondage. Both are illusory and mental acceptations. Thus, when
(i) it establishes strong mental connection with the body, it becomes stupid.
(ii) it acts in the body in a particular relationship, it becomes ignorant and fickle.
(iii) it acts with discrimination and intelligence in connection with physical and worldly affairs, it is called ‘intelligent’. Though it has knowledge of all things it is bereft of its own particular knowledge; and for the same reason it is called ignorant.
(iv) And when due to the width of experience it loosens the ties of this world, begins to establish relationship with the spirit, and begins to toy with the ideas of this world and the other, of earth and heaven, it is called wise. It then acts in the same manner regard¬ing both, and does not take any deep impres¬sion, keeping equal the pans of the balance, as it were. One who has understood the mind has understood the spirit and everything else.
Whenever there is an ideal, it is purely mental and is connected with mind only. The capacity to think and understand, accept and believe, is related to mind only. There is no place in which the mind does not wander. There are innumerable resting gates and spots of action of the mind. Only three of them will be mentioned here particularly. These places can also be called the three chapters of the book of mind.
Doors are also called by this name. There are three different doors of the mind: the lower, the middle and the higher, or the physical, the mental and the spiritual.
The first door is the gross body, which is the begin¬ning of the book of mind. The second door is the mind which is in the middle. The third door is the spirit which is higher.
The gross body is that state of matter in which quick transformations occur. Mind or the subtle body is that state of matter wherein there is stability along with transformation. Spirit or the subtle body is that state of matter in which there is relatively more stabi¬lity, peace and rest. These are the chapters of the mind.
When the mind settles on the very subtle body, it gains relatively more experience because it experiences only misery having come across better and superior things in the world of multiplicity. It gets material for the aggravation or development of the feeling of envy, hatred, enmity, of attaining better