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face to face with outlaws, only the humans will think, 'What is to become of me? How will I cope? Who is going to take care of things in my absence?' Those who think this way are independent; they have no support, whereas the animals are dependent (ashrit) on nature. They receive food and drink without any problems. They do not have doctors or hospitals, they do not suffer from greed. Yes, having come into the company of humans, the animals too have become miserable.
As ones intake of food decreases, so does his apathy and laziness and his intellect develops. Tea decreases the intake of food. Drinking tea was not common in the old days and so people ate a lot. People became as big as bullocks and their buddhi became dense like a buffalo. But they could work very hard. They worked hard at whatever task they took on. Eating heavily makes the intellect dull and its subtleness and sharpness disappears.
Buddhi helps one achieve worldly tasks, not liberation. To have just one viewpoint is buddhi. When one attains both viewpoints i.e. the real and relative, only then will pragnya which is the direct light of the Self, arise. With the power of pragnya, one can see both the viewpoints and this leads to liberation. There is eternal bliss wherever there is pragnya. With buddhi there is imagined pain and that too a prolonged one. There is always pain behind any worldly pleasure in the current era of Kaliyug. During such times, there is nothing but endless pain and suffering. Attachment has pervaded everywhere and people are constantly wandering around in a state of infatuation and stupor
Chit Chit means gnan and darshan, which is knowledge and vision respectively. These two attributes belong to the chit. If these two attributes are impure then the chit is referred to as impure chit (ashuddha chit) and if they are pure, then it is called shuddha chit.
Shuddha gnan + shuddha darshan = shuddha chit = Shuddhatma
(Pure knowledge + pure vision = pure chit = pure soul)
Ashuddha gnan + ashuddha darshan = ashuddha chit = ashuddhatma
(Impure knowledge + impure vision = impure chit = impure soul)
While one is sitting here, that which visualizes the home overseas and knows all the things inside the house, is the attribute of the chit, whereas the attribute of the mind is to show pamphlets, thought cues. The mind will show you one pamphlet after another. When one says 'my mind wanders, 'really it is the chit that wanders, not the mind. The mind can never leave the body to wander outside, it is the chit that leaves and wanders outside the body. Most people have no understanding of what the mind, the chit the buddhi, and ahamkar (ego) are. They talk about the antahkaran, but they do not even understand what it is. When a glass breaks, it first breaks in the antahkaran (activity within) and then it breaks outside.
No scriptures have explained the mind, the intellect, the chit, and the ego in this way.
