In English
Here is a piece of cloth. This is not a piece of cloth in reality. This is actually a bundle of threads. If you look more closely at it, it is not even a bundle of threads, but it is just cotton. If we remove these threads one by one and pull them away, then the form of cloth will disappear; and we will not see the cloth any more. In the same manner, mind is simply a conglomeration of desires. These desires, like threads, come together and constitute what may be called the cloth which is the mind. Just as the cloth disappears if you pull away the threads, there will be no mind left if you pull away all the desires. The mind has no form of its own. The result is called or liberation. This process is also referred to as diminishing and removing our own responsibilities and desires. Our life is a long journey. In this long journey, if we carry a small amount of luggage with us, then that journey will become pleasant. Many students who travel in the railway trains would have seen the motto, “Less lug-gage and more comfort makes travel a pleasure.” In this life, which is like a long rail journey, the desires constitute the luggage. In order to minimise the lug-gage, we should minimise the desires. It is because of these desires that we get into bondage. It is by such bondages that we get sorrow and difficulties.