A Quotation from Bhagawan

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A Quotation from Bhagawan

Human beings have the power to discriminate between good and bad.

 

The word 'Human' is full of significance:

 

'H' stands for 'high human values'

'U' stands for 'understanding of human sanctity'

'M' stands for being 'mindful of one's duty'

'A' stands for 'anandam' (bliss)

'N' stands for the 'name of God'

 

But when we use the instrument called mind, we must know all about it. Science

would testify that the nature of the mind depends upon the food we consume. The

gross material of food we excrete, but the more subtle part is used by our

system to feed the intelligence and the most subtle part becomes the mind. In

Vedantic parlance we can illustrate this by an example: "What have I in my

hand"? - "A piece of cloth". - "What does the cloth contain"? - "Yarn". -

"Where did the yarn come from"? - "From cotton". First cotton, then yarn and

finally the cloth - the names and forms are different, but the basic material

is the same. Without the more basic cotton and yarn, we cannot have cloth. So

also without food, we cannot have mind to exercise discrimination, mind to

exercise preferences and judge do's and dont's. When every yarn is pulled out,

the cloth becomes non-existent. So also when there are no do's and dont's, the

mind cannot exist. For the mind is only a bundle of desires, it is no real

entity, it has no power of its own.

SSS: Vol. X; Page 187. (25 July, 1978)

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