Meditation and Enlightenment

Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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54/ Meditation and Enlightenment : Chandr Prabh
Mind is in itself a power, and this power is solely due to consciousness. If we accept the mind to mean the inner-consciousness, then the boundaries of purity would become easy and straight. The senses perform their work, but it is the mind which is the director of the establishment of the senses. The senses execute the instructions it receives from inside. The light of the senses is connected with outside. The eyes, the ears, the nose have their own horizons. They are not directly related to purity. They are but the means to carry the tea-cup from the shop to the office. Therefore, if the mind becomes pure, then the purity of the senses would be spontaneously possible. After all, the lesson of taking bribes is receieved by the peon from the office-bearers. The internal purity is the basis of external purity.
Man imparts a concrete form to the waves of the internal emotions in the external world through the senses, but mind is the basic clue of all his activities. Therefore, it is the director of the sense-organs. If one thing strikes the mind that the mind has to offer salutations to the soul, even though it is the director of the sense-organs; and, if the seer-sense becomes lively, then the traditional noisiness of the mind would become feeble. Man serves the feet of a person who is non-aligned to worldly affairs.
We come to know of the mind through its actions. If it becomes grievous, then all the activities of the body are bound to be influenced by it. Even if the eye-sight is correct, the decision after viewing is always taken by the mind dwelling within. It is due to connecting the wire of the activities of the sense-organs with the mind that the 'ti-vi-tut-tut' noises of the bamboo-groves are heard. The biggest impurity of life is man's coming under his mind. That person, who has capably held the reins of the mind, is the emperor.
Mind is the seed of the crop of thoughts, sacramentalities, opinions. They are, wbether good or bad, the stumbling blocks in experiencing the supreme vacuum If one goes either to Ayodhya or to Akuri in thoughts, he would only cover the external distances. If detachment is mastered, then the person would remain neither in support of the mind, por against it. He would remain uninfluenced/ untouched by the adverse situations of life.