MIND IS AN INERT THING:-

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Mind: without input cannot exists:-

We found that the mind threatens our inner peace with the very strength we unwittingly lend to it. In itself mind is inert. It has no life of its own. It is dead matter, ever inert and insentient. Without the fuel an automobile cannot dash forth. It is, by itself, only a mass of heavy iron, shaped as the engine! Iron by itself has no locomotion. When the driver steps on the gas the heavy engine will bring forth all its horse-power and shall dash forth  pantingly  eating up the distances. It can stop only when the driver takes his foot off the gas then, by itself, the vehicle  will slow down to even a complete halt, if the driver will only remain as a 'witness'  of the switched-off  car exhausting its gathered momentum!

 In the same way mind shall come to a halt, if only the seeker could withdraw his enthusiastic participation in the mind's lusty excesses.


And in fact, the Rishies who mastered their minds and conquered their peaks of Realisation, look back laughingly upon their own past and anxiously upon our efforts to tame our minds! They are staggered. Wonder chokes them. Surprise smothers them Breathless in their amazement, they burst out --- "Mind is an inert thing. It cannot exist by itself. Therefore we can say that it is a dead thing( inert). And this world dies and decays because of this dead thing called mind......what a strange wheel-of-stupidity!!" [to be cont--d]        

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