Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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You are eating because you have to eat, but you want to run to the court to listen to its hearing. Your mind has no connection with the food, so you do not know what you have been eating.
The five senses have a connection with the mind as their central point. We keep the five senses clean, but the mind which is its most important centre is neglected. It is full of cobwebs and is dirty and stinking and rusty and yet we do not try to keep the mind clean and oil it regularly. :
The result is that the five senses do not work according to their schedule. If the centre is faulty, everything goes wrong.
The mind is like a main railway junction. All trains leave from the main station—it is the junction at which all lines and inter-lines meet and depart. When such a main station is not functioning properly and needs overhauling then how do you expect the various lines and inter-lines to function well?
Wise men also ask the same thing. We bring an eye-bath for washing our eyes; we bring special tubes to clean our ears; we buy tooth paste for cleaning our teeth; we use the best of soaps for washing our bodies; but what do we use for cleaning our minds: Have we any means to cleanse the mind: We have only one way of cleaning the mind; by listening to the sermons of the wise.
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