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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
introverts. That is the essence of spirituality. The mind has got to be yoked to breath. That is the first step of energising ourselves.
Now let us consider the question of energising the body. In order to answer this question let us understand the nature of energy. Every object of the world, whether small or big, contains energy. There is no substance which does not possess energy, and a thing which does not possess energy cannot be called a substance.
Philosophers have discussed the nature of sat (that which exists) and asat (that which does not exist). Asat is that which has no activity. Sat is that which has activity. There are two terms, vrkṣa-kusuma (a flower on the tree) and ākāśa kusuma (a flower in the sky). The first is a real object while the second is a thing of imagination. The flower on the tree is real because it has activity whereas the flower in the sky is unreal because it has no activity. An inactive object has no energy whereas the active one has. Energy is the characteristic of sat. Is energy the characteristic of living beings also? That which has energy as well as consciousness is called a living being. Atoms have energy but they do not possess consciousness. The soul has both energy and consciousness. Human beings. combine in themselves both. We have feeling also and that is the consequence of consciousness. We have experiences and feeling and also energy. An atom has so much energy that, if it is split, it can burn the entire universe into ashes. The soul also has infinite energy. It has an infinitely larger concentration of energy than what the atomic particle contains. Consciousness is also infinite. The human being has a combination of both in him. Man who possesses such a fantastic store of energy can work wonders, not to speak of leading a truly religious life or of controlling the mind which are the preliminaries of sădhanā. Our sadhanā does not aim at controlling or arresting the mind but with doing away with the mind completely or with rendering the mind completely empty.
Living beings are divided into two categories: those who have mind and those who do not have. The former have cognitive activity whereas the latter do not. The human being has a mind and cognises. He has a highly developed mind.
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