MIND : ITS MYSTERIES AND CONTROL : 9.

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TYPES OF MIND


Every man has a mental world of his own.

Every man entirely differs from another man in mode of thinking, temperament, taste, mentality, physical characteristics, etc.
Physically also a man differs from another man, although there might be slight resemblance.

Observe carefully the nose, the ears, the lips, the eyes, the eyebrows, the arrangement of teeth, the shoulders, hands, fingers, toes, look, voice, gait, way of talking, etc., of different men.

You will find vast differences between any two persons. Even the lines of the palm will differ.

No two leaves are alike.

Variety is the beauty of creation.




There are various types of mind.

The Bengali type of mind is emotional and fit for devotion and art.

TheSouth Indian type of mind is intellectual and clever in Mathematics.

The Punjabi type of mind and Maharashtra type of mind are chivalrous.

Bengal has produced emotional saints, Lord Gouranga or Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Deva, etc.

South India  has  produced intellectual philosophers like Sri Sankara and Sri Ramanuja.

Punjab has produced Guru Nanak, Guru Govind Singh, etc.

The Sadhana and path of Yoga vary according to the type of mind, temperament and capacity. Tastes also differ.

The sight of a fish brings excessive joy to a Bengali.

The sight of tamarind and chillies excites the glosso-pharyngeal nerve of a South Indian.

The sight of a Palmyra fruit excites the Jaffna Tamil of Ceylon and brings excessive joy.

The sight of meat brings a peculiar joy to a meat-eater.

Is this not a mystery that an object lies outside and saliva appears in the tongue at the sight of it?

Because you have this experience daily in everyday life, you do not
attach much importance to it.

Mind is very mysterious.

So is Maya, too.

Even an infinitely superior mind is yet a mind and of the same mould as any man’s.

Swami Sivananda

To be continued  ...



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