Mysteries of Mind

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Book Agency

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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
the prāņas, in the sense-organs, in the mind, in speech and in the body. There are ten prāņas. Every one of them vibrates in its own way. The entire composition of life depends on their support.
There are cight karmas (actions) and each of them vibrates in its own way. The vibrations of moha (delusion) are the thickest and most numerous. Emotions, excitements, fear, sorrow, grief, hatred, unwholesome change, sex-desire etc. are vibrations of delusion. They happen ceaselessly and do not stop of themselves. It is due to them that we sometimes feel joy and at other times sorrows. Some of them produce joy while others produce sorrow.
What are joys and sorrows ? Let us understand them clearly. We experience joys and sorrows when the mind becomes connected with the vibrations. If the mind did not do so, there will be neither joys nor sorrows. When the mind becomes yoked to pleasing vibrations, we experience pleasure. When the mind becomes yoked to unpleasant vibrations, we feel sorrows. If we did not connect the mind with the vibrations, there will be neither joy nor sorrow.
There are vibratious caused by external agencies. Prāna vibrations and karma vibrations are externally produced vibrations. There are several other causes of these vibrations. One of them is thinking Memory also produces vibrations. Let me tell you an anecdote. Once four persons came to see an old lady. She offerred to them butter milk. After some time the men departed. When the lady saw in churning pot to her great surprise, she found a dead snake in it. She thought that the guests might have been poisoned and died. After a few months the same guests again visited the old lady. She was surprised to see them alive. She spoke to them about the dead serpent in the churning pot. On hearing this the memory cells of all the visitors became active. They felt as if they were drinking poisoned butter milk and died of fear. It was not poison but memory which killed them.
Thinking, memory and imagination produce vibrations. Some of them are pleasant and others unpleasant. Cults of devotion and recitation of charms (mantras) had been based on the theory of vibrations. People believed that a particular