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edge of the varying states of the mind. How diverse the mind is, can be understood through a symbol :
The mind is a poisonous creeper; also a ball of honey! Naturally modest; at times most unruly!
On the one hand, the mind is destructive like a poisonous creeper, on the other hand, it also acts like nectar. At one moment, it is humility incarnate, while at other times, it is so impetuous as to create quite a problem. Victory over this mind means its surcease. When the mind ceases to be, fickleness vanishes of itself. Thus, it is futile to try to remove the mind's fickleness, because it is not that the mind is fickle, but fickleness itself is the mind.
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