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are the ones, which create a problem. There is no problem with the smaller ones. Do you think you can do this?
I do not have any tubers within me, thus I am considered nirgranth (without tuber). Human beings are like a piece of wood full of knots; one cannot even make any furniture' out of them! When these knots become excessive, they express themselves as tumors in or on the body.
the mind, can the problem be solved. You should maintain awareness not to interfere with the functioning of the mind or to become absorbed or become one with the mind.
Let me explain what these tubers of the mind are like. Say you visit your farm in the summer and find nothing growing in it. You will think that the farm is clean but I tell you to wait and see what happens after it rains. After a good rain you will see all kinds of greenery on it, all kinds of creepers everywhere. Where did these creepers come from? Each creeper had a rhizome under the ground, which sprouted with the first shower of rain. Then if you uproot all the creepers, you'll feel happy that your farm is completely clean. I would tell you that you could only say it is clean, if it remains free from any creepers after three years of rain. Only then can you consider that your farm is free of any tubers (nirgrantha). Similarly this mind is made up of tubers, the bigger the tuber about a specific topic, the greater the number of thoughts about that topic and the smaller the tuber, the fewer the thoughts. For example, if you ask a young Vanik (vegetarian sect) boy how many times he thinks about eating meat, he would tell you that in all his twenty years he has thought about it only a few times. This means that his tuber of eating meat is a small one, the size of a beetle nut. Now, if we were to ask a Muslim boy the same question, he would tell you that he thinks about eating meat several times a day. This means that his tuber of eating meat is very large, the size of a large sweet potato. If you ask a Jain child, he will tell you that the thought of eating meat never crosses his mind, meaning he has no such tubers at all.
If you were to plot a graph about your thoughts and what they are about, over a period of a month, a week and a day, you would come to know the kind and the size of tubers you have. You will have only about five or ten large ones and these
The mind is quite separate from the Self and can never become one with it. When you have pleasant thoughts, you are deluded to believe that it is you who is doing the thinking and your thoughts are good. And when the thoughts are unpleasant you say that you have these thoughts even when you do not want them. What does that suggest? When the thoughts are pleasant you claim to be the thinker and when they are unpleasant you say, "What can I do?" If you were the thinker and the thoughts were under your control then you would only think pleasant thoughts. Nobody would entertain unpleasant thoughts. But that does not happen, does it? Both, the pleasant and unpleasant thoughts will come.
Inspiration Of Action Is Through Mind
There are those who claim that the God within them inspires them to steal. The fools! Do they mean to say that God is the guilty one, while they are innocent? Would God ever give such an inspiration? God neither inspires one to steal nor does he inspire one not to steal. Why would he inspire one to steal and become the thief Himself? The principle is that the one who inspires to steal is the thief.
Do you think God meddles in this way? He is the Knower, the Observer and is in permanent bliss. He sees and knows everything. So then where does the inspiration come from? It is when a person's tuber to steal, sprouts from within that he will
