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but the eyes are instruments of seeing for the "inner" person. The "inner-equipment” has got different names, but they are all functional nominations. In fact one and the same mental stuff, called the "inner equipment", has different function and so different names. Of course, they all are constituted of thoughts only..
When the thoughts are in a state of chaos, undetermined, agitated with doubts and despairs, it is called in that state as the 'mind'. When it has determined its perceptions with reference to its own memories of similar or dissimilar objects experienced in the past, that condition of relative quiet, caused by the determination, is called the 'intellect'. Willing, wishing, desiring, judging etc. are some of the functions of the intellect.
To have a doubt regarding any outer phenomenal factor and to come to a decision about it, are the two equal yoke-fellows in the process of intellectual living, so constantly experienced by each one of us. The continuous procession of this dual-functions together gives us the experience of the intellectual living that man alone is capable of. In this process, it is not very difficult for us to detect that the doubts and the decisions must belong to one and the same individual in order to create in him the experience of intellectual living, i.e., the doubt must be mine and the ultimate understanding also must be mine, so that I may experience the ending of my doubt. This vanity of the individual, that arrogates to himself both the doubts and the decisions as his own is called the 'ego', expressed in us, in our day-to-day life, as 'I' and 'mine'.
My doubts and my decisions constantly singing their breathless duet is the unbroken experience of intellectual living and this is not possible unless we are continuously aware of our doubts, conscious of our decisions and unless fully experience that it is our doubt and our decisions. In short, we must be aware of the mind, the intellect and the ego. This Awareness or Consciousness, playing upon the mind-intellect-ego is called 'Chitta'. In its pure state, unconditioned by these three, the Chitta becomes the Pure Cons
