Teachings on mind from Dnyaneshwari (13:103-116).
That which lies at the joining place of the organs and the intellect, playing around by its fickle nature and with the help of the Raja attribute, it gives deceptive appearances like the blue colour of the sky or like the waves in a mirage.
That which lies at the joining place of the organs and the intellect, playing around by its fickle nature and with the help of the Raja attribute, it gives deceptive appearances like the blue colour of the sky or like the waves in a mirage.
When the body takes shape out of the five principles (elements)
through the union of the semens and the ovum the air principle gets divided
into ten parts with ten different aspects which get themselves established in
ten different parts according to the individual properties and functions of
each.
Due to its purely fickle nature it gains its strength from
the Raja attribute and implants itself firmly outside the intellect and above
the ego i.e. in between them. It has been named as "mind" for no
particular reason but actually it is only a concept.
Because of it the Soul gets to be associated with the body.
It is the root cause of the inclination for action. It strengthens the lust and
always incites the ego.
It increases the desire, strengthens the hope and nurtures
fear. Because of it the duality (disunity) is created, ignorance prevails and
it pushes the organs into sense-pleasures.
It creates conceptual world and immediately destroys it
also. It assembles stacks of ambitions and disassembles them. It is a
storehouse of delusion and is the inner core of the air principle. It has
closed the doors of the intellect. This then without doubt is the mind.